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Avia in hospital; Photo credit: Tzur Anteman
Thursday, August 15, 2024, 16:53 A newly-engaged couple, Avia and Shahar Anteman were brutally attacked in Beit HaHoshen, overlooking the Temple Mount, immediately after their engagement in May 2021. Numerous Arab terrorists took part in the attack, the last of whom were convicted in July 2022. However, the legal proceedings are still ongoing. Honenu Attorney Chayim Bleicher is representing the couple.
In November 2022, the Supreme Court accepted an appeal from the State Attorney’s office and increased the sentence of one of the adult terrorists from seven to nine years’ imprisonment and imposed on him a fine of NIS 20,000. An additional terrorist who was a minor at the time received a 27-month active prison sentence and a suspended sentence, and was ordered to pay NIS 8,000 in compensation. Recently, in a civil suit, the Jerusalem District Court ruled in a compromise agreement that these two terrorists will pay an additional NIS 30,000 in compensation.
Honenu Attorney Chayim Bleicher welcomed the decision and said: “Because, thank G-d, the victims were not permanently handicapped and the compensation awarded to the couple in the criminal proceedings has been paid by the terrorists, the additional sum that the terrorists were forced to pay out of their pockets in the civil proceedings is significant. Civil suits against other terrorists in the case are pending. We hope to exact significant sums from them, and thus to add an important layer of deterrence in the war on terror.”
Anteman proposal; Photo courtesy of the photographer
In May 2021, Avia proposed to Shahar in Beit HaHoshen, and then they headed toward Beit Orot. On their way, their car was blocked by other cars. At the A-Tor Intersection, dozens of Arab rioters threw rocks at them. Avia got out of the car and was beaten, pelted with rocks, and then stabbed in the back. Shahar escaped on foot and hid behind a parked car until the police arrived. The couple met up again in Beit Orot. Avia was evacuated, injured and bleeding, to Sha’arei Tzedek Hospital. He suffered a head injury, stab wounds to his back, and a punctured lung. Because of prolonged hospitalization and outpatient treatments, the couple postponed their engagement party.