2025 Yokneam attack

2025 Yokneam attack
Location	Yokneam, Israel
Date	24 March 2025;5 days ago (2025-03-24) 9:44 a.m. (UTC+02:00)
Attack type	Ramming, stabbing, shooting
Weapons	Renault Fluence, knife, M-16
Deaths	2 (including perpetrator)
Injured	1
Perpetrator	Karam Jabarin

The 2025 Yokneam attack that took place on 24 March 2025, was a combined vehicular, stabbing and shooting attack near Yokneam Illit in Northern Israel. The outcome resulted in the death of Moshe Horn, an 86-year-old victim of the terror attack and serious injuries to an 18-year-old soldier. The assailant, identified as Karam Jabarin, a 25-year-old Israeli Arab from Ma'ale Iron, was fatally shot by Israel Border Police at the scene.

The attack

On 24 March 2025 at around 09:44 a.m. (UTC+02:00), ^[1] Karam Jabarin, a 25-year-old Israeli Arab from Ma'ale Iron in Northern Israel, murdered one person and injured another at Tishbi Junction  [ he ] on Route 66, near Yokneam Illit, Israel. He deliberately drove a Renault Fluence into a bus stop, striking a 20-year-old Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier. ^[2] He then exited the vehicle and stabbed the injured soldier multiple times before grabbing the soldier's rifle. After seizing the soldier's weapon, Jabarin opened fire on passing vehicles traveling in the opposite lane, fatally shooting a 86-year-old man, identified as Moshe "Musa" Horn from Kibbutz HaZore'a. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

Response

In response to the terror attack Border Police officers on their way to a training session in Beit She'an arrived promptly and shot Jabarin dead. ^[5] The female fighter who killed the terrorist later gave an interview to the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation. ^[6]

Official Statements

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission for the European Union (EU) Kaja Kallas condemned the attack, attributing it to ongoing incitement by the Palestinian Authority. ^[7]

Context

This incident follows a series of attacks in northern Israel:

• On March 3, an Israeli Arab stabbing in the Haifa area resulted in one death and four injuries. ^{[8] [9]}
• On February 14, a man in his 60s was attacked by an Israeli Arab with an axe in the Gilboa region. ^{[10] [11]}

See also

• July 2023 Tel Aviv attack
• 2025 Bat Yam bus bombings
• 2025 al-Funduq shooting

References

1. "1 murdered, and 1 seriously injured, on a terror attack at Tishbi Junction". mdais.org. 24 March 2025. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
2. Sales, Ben (24 March 2025). "Israeli man, 85, killed in terror attack at bus stop". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
3. "Terror attack near Yokneam leaves 1 dead". israelhayom.com. 24 March 2025. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
4. "One killed in shooting attack in northern Israel, police say". reuters.com. 24 March 2025. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
5. Sales, Ben (24 March 2025). "Israeli man, 85, killed in terror attack at bus stop". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
6. "Terrorist kills Israeli civilian, seriously wounds IDF soldier near Yokneam in northern Israel before being killed". All Israel News. 24 March 2025. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
7. Marks, Josh (24 March 2025). "One dead, one wounded in Galilee terror shooting". JNS.org. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
8. "פיגוע דקירה בחיפה: גבר כבן 70 נרצח, ארבעה נפצעו בינוני-קשה בתחנה מרכזית המפרץ | כלכליסט". calcalist (in Hebrew). 3 March 2025. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
9. "הרוג ו–4 פצועים בפיגוע דקירה בחיפה; המחבל, תושב שפרעם, נורה למוות". haaretz.co.il. 2025.
10. "חשד לפיגוע בגלבוע: גבר הותקף בגרזן בחצר ביתו - התוקף נמלט". 2025.
11. "Man in 60s wounded by axe in suspected terror attack in Gilboa, suspect caught by police". The Jerusalem Post. 14 February 2025. Retrieved 24 March 2025.