Terrorist Murders Woman, 83, in Herzliya

Israel Police Commissioner Daniel Levy at the scene of a stabbing attack in Herzliya, Dec. 27, 2024. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90. Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90

Ludmila Lipovsky was attacked near the nursing home where she lived.

A 28-year-old terrorist from Tulkarem in Samaria shouted “Allahu Akbar,” and then stabbed and mortally wounded a woman near the nursing home where she lived on Kedoshi Hashoah Street in Herzliya on Friday morning.

Magen David Adom emergency personnel treated the victim, Ludmila Lipovsky, 83, and she was evacuated in critical condition to Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov Hospital), where doctors pronounced her death.

Security guards from the Israel Postal Company’s Brink’s courier unit shot the lone attacker, who was then arrested by police. According to initial reports, he was within the Green Line illegally and had previously served time in an Israeli prison for a security offense. His condition is described as serious.

The terrorist, Ibrahim Shalhob, had been placed under administrative detention three times, most recently from June 2023 to June 2024.

The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) said the suspect is “a former security service informant, who was involved in thwarting terrorist infrastructures in Judea and Samaria, [and] was exposed and transferred for rehabilitation in Israel. The suspect was arrested at the scene and will be transferred for Shin Bet interrogation to continue investigating the circumstances of the attack.”