Israel arrests a Jewish university lecturer on charges of planning terrorist attacks to expel Palestinians

On Monday, the Israeli Public Prosecution announced the arrest of a senior university lecturer at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv, on charges of drawing up a well-thought-out plan and starting work on its implementation. With the aim of displacing the Palestinians from their homeland by committing massacres in which hundreds of them are killed.

According to the indictment, the lecturer, whose name was prohibited from being published, began his studies more than three years ago, after the country witnessed violent demonstrations and clashes between Arabs and Jews in several locations in Israel. He decided that there was no longer a place for any Arab in Israel, not even those Bedouins or Druze who served in the Israeli army. After completing the study, he toured Arab towns, including the Bedouin village of Tuba al-Zangriya in the Galilee, and began forming armed cells.

The accused is a Jewish university lecturer in mathematics who holds the title of professor. He is 60 years old. He lives in the city of Petah Tikva. When the court decided to keep him in detention, he protested, saying: “I have duties at work. “I have to correct the assignments of my students.”

The indictment submitted by the Public Prosecution to the Central Court in Lod stated that the university lecturer planned “a series of simultaneous terrorist attacks.” This is for a national and ideological motive.” According to the list, the accused called his plan “Eit,” which is an abbreviation for a Hebrew phrase meaning “the people will carry out the cleansing.” This aims to carry out widespread attacks that lead to the killing of large numbers of Arabs, and push the survivors to leave Israel towards Jordan, Lebanon, and the Gaza Strip. The Israeli Public Prosecution accuses the accused of committing security violations, including preparing to carry out a terrorist act in accordance with the Anti-Terrorism Law, blackmail by threats, and obstructing the investigation and judiciary. It also requested that he be kept in detention until the end of the judicial procedures against him.

According to the indictment, the accused began formulating his plan in early February 2023, and continued developing it until his arrest about two weeks ago. The plan included the formation of 12 cells, each containing six people, meaning 72 Jewish enforcers, with at least half of them holding weapons licenses, including the accused himself. The cells were scheduled to use various weapons, including pistols, rifles, axes, and hammers. To carry out surprise attacks in Arab towns and mixed cities throughout the country.

The plan, according to the indictment, also included an attempt to obtain support from parties within the Israeli army. With the aim of providing military support to the cells, including the use of air force, artillery, and armored vehicles to bomb Arab residential areas.

In a document titled “How do we carry out an attack here and now?”, the accused, according to the prosecution, set detailed instructions for carrying out attacks, which included calling for mass killing and controlling areas of friction, roads, entrances and exits to Arab towns, mixed cities, and hospitals. The instructions also included killing women and children without mercy and with all cruelty of heart. Because these are the Palestinian “terrorists of the future.”

The accused believed, according to the indictment, that carrying out the attacks simultaneously, in addition to documenting and publishing them on social media networks in real time, would push Arab citizens of Israel, as well as Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, to leave the region and head outside Israel’s borders.

The prosecution indicates that the plan failed; Because the accused did not succeed, over a period of about a year and a half, in recruiting supporters and partners. He tried to recruit the far-right politician, Moshe Vaglin, the second candidate on Minister Bezalel Smotrich's list, for the upcoming Knesset elections. With the aim of including him in the plan and using him to attract other activists. But Fagelin refused to meet him and told the police about him, and so he was arrested. After an investigation that lasted two weeks, an indictment was filed against him. The prosecution said that the accused tried to blackmail Faglin.

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The plan included the formation of 12 cells, each containing six people, meaning 72 Jewish enforcers, with at least half of them holding weapons licenses, including the accused himself. The cells were scheduled to use various weapons, including pistols, rifles, axes, and hammers. To carry out surprise attacks in Arab towns and mixed cities throughout the country.

Iranian judicial authorities announced, on Monday, the execution of the death sentence against two men convicted of involvement in the killing of four police officers during anti-authority protests at the beginning of this year.

The judiciary accused the two men of killing members in the city of Isfahan (central) during the protests that began in Tehran in late December against the backdrop of the high cost of living, and turned into a widespread anti-rule movement, which reached its peak on the eighth and ninth of January.

The judiciary's Mizan Online website reported, "Ali Reza Sebahi and Ali Reza Raisi were executed by hanging this morning after the Supreme Court approved the ruling," without specifying the dates of their arrest or trial.

The website added that the two men were sentenced to death “for belonging to an armed group and undermining national security.”

The authorities confirmed that about three thousand people were killed during the protests, which included riots, which they attributed to “terrorist operations” orchestrated by the United States and Israel. However, non-governmental organizations based abroad reported a higher death toll and accused the authorities of carrying out a severe crackdown on protesters.

On Saturday, Tehran announced the execution of a man convicted on several charges, including shooting police officers during protests.

The pace of executions in Iran has escalated since the start of the US-Israeli war against it in February.

In 2025, Tehran executed at least 1,639 people, the highest toll in one year since 1989, according to the organizations “Iran Human Rights Watch” and “Together Against the Death Penalty.”

Amnesty International says Iran carries out more executions than any other country except China.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Monday that Hamas would not rule the Gaza Strip, while participating in a ceremony to commemorate the third anniversary of the October 7 attack.

Israel declared a day of mourning on Monday, and flags were flown at half-mast on government buildings at 6:29 a.m. (4:29 GMT). “We have achieved tremendous achievements, but we still have tasks ahead of us, and we intend to accomplish them,” Netanyahu said during an official ceremony at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. He added: “There will be no rule by (Hamas) in Gaza,” vowing to continue targeting anyone who participated in the attack or took hostages in Gaza.

The Hamas attack on Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,221 people, according to a tally prepared by Agence France-Presse, based on official Israeli figures. The militants also took 251 hostages to Gaza, 44 of whom died.

Israel responded with a large-scale war on Gaza, which left massive destruction and killed at least 74,200 people, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health in the Strip, whose figures the United Nations considers reliable.

Since the ceasefire was announced last October, Israeli forces have killed 1,460 people in Gaza, according to the Ministry of Health in the Strip.

The features of plans for managing Gaza after the war have begun to take shape, but the issue is still largely unresolved on the ground.

Since the Hamas attack, Israel has fought wars on several fronts, including a war in Lebanon against Hezbollah, which is supported by Iran.

In his speech on Monday, Netanyahu also pledged to continue striking Hezbollah in order to “create an opportunity for peace with a country whose people most want peace with us.”

Netanyahu also attacked Iran's religious leadership. Israel and the United States launched a joint attack on Iran on February 28, igniting war in the Middle East. Netanyahu said: “We will not allow the Ayatollah’s regime in Tehran to threaten our existence,” considering that the Iranian leadership is at its weakest state since the founding of Iran.