83-year-old woman stabbed to death in Israel by ex-Shin Bet spy

A Palestinian former informant for Israel’s interior security agency Shin Bet on Friday stabbed an 83-year-old woman to death in Herzliya in northern Tel Aviv District.

According to Shin Bet, the victim is Ludmila Lipovsky, who was stabbed by the 28-year-old Ibrahim Shalhoub, from the occupied West Bank.

The attack took place when Lipovsky had just left her assisted living complex, the Time of Israel reported.

“[Lipovsky] went out and waited for her daughter to take her to the doctor and the terrorist started stabbing her, five or six times. She has been a resident of the nursing home here for many years. I heard screams, I went out and saw her lying on the floor,” an unnamed staffer at the facility told Walla news, as translated by the Times of Israel.

Israeli police arrested the assailant after he was shot by security guards. His condition is not known yet.