TEL AVIV, Israel – An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man was sentenced to life in prison Sunday for stabbing a 16-year-old girl to death and injuring others at last year’s gay pride parade in Jerusalem.
The court said Yishai Schlissel was motivated by “blind fanaticism” and that “this man should never again walk free in the streets of Jerusalem.”
Schlissel had stabbed participants in Jerusalem’s 2005 gay pride parade, served a 10-year sentence, and was released three weeks before the 2015 parade.
He was sentenced to life for one count of premeditated murder and 30 years for six counts of attempted murder under aggravated circumstances, the court said.
He was also ordered to pay about $500,000 to the family of the young woman he murdered, and the other victims.
