Court Bars Detained Mass-Murder Plotter From Attending Mother's Funeral
The Central District Court in Lod denied a request from detained mass-murder plotter Shachar Nevo to attend his mother's funeral, citing severe intelligence-backed security risks.
The Central District Court in Lod rejected a request on Friday from detained mathematics lecturer Shachar Nevo to attend his mother's funeral, upholding the position of the Israel Prison Service (IPS).
Judge Eli Brand ruled that classified intelligence information presented by the IPS indicated severe security risks, including threats directed against Nevo himself, precluding his release for the service.
Nevo, a 60-year-old Petah Tikva resident and former Bar-Ilan University lecturer, was indicted in October following an investigation that revealed he spent years plotting a nationalist-ideologically motivated mass murder scheme targeting hundreds of Arab citizens, Bedouin, and Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, which he dubbed operation "Am Yaaseh Transfer".
Although acknowledging that attending the funeral of an immediate family member is normally permitted under routine circumstances, Judge Brand stated that overriding security concerns left no alternative but to deny the motion. The court reviewed two separate proposals submitted to facilitate his attendance, but concluded that neither alternative could adequately mitigate the identified risks.
