An Israeli court sentenced an Israeli Arab to two consecutive life terms for the murder last August of two Jewish hikers. Abdullah Igbariya, 21, pleaded guilty to stabbing to death Sharon Steinmetz, 21, and Yehiel Funfter, 26, after having decided “to kill Jews.”
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