{"id":22480,"date":"2025-05-09T19:30:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T16:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/?p=22480"},"modified":"2025-05-09T16:39:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:39:58","slug":"prosecutors-indict-israeli-arab-who-attempted-to-join-isis-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/prosecutors-indict-israeli-arab-who-attempted-to-join-isis-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors Indict Israeli Arab Who Attempted to Join ISIS in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State Prosecutor\u2019s Office filed an indictment today (Friday) in the Kfar Saba Magistrate\u2019s Court against Adam Sarsour (29), an Israeli Arab from Kafr Qassem. He is charged with membership in the ISIS terrorist organization. The Shin Bet and the Israel Police\u2019s Northern District Central Unit also arrested two residents of Deir al-Asad who were planning a vehicular attack inspired by ISIS. Indictments were filed against those two men as well, yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flew to Turkey, Attempted to Cross into Syria<\/strong><br \/>\nThe indictment was submitted by Attorney Adi Fayneh Yossefi of the Central District Prosecutor\u2019s Office. According to the document, \u201cThe defendant, an Israeli citizen, began consuming brutal content produced by the ISIS terrorist organization as early as a decade ago, through Facebook and other websites. At that point, he resolved to join the organization.\u201d To that end, he flew to Turkey and tried to cross the border into Syria, but was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22483\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22483 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2-59-1024x684.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2-59-1024x684.webp 1024w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2-59-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2-59-768x513.webp 768w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2-59-1536x1025.webp 1536w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2-59.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ISIS | Photo: Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the indictment, Sarsour pledged allegiance to ISIS through the organization\u2019s website. He joined with the intention of committing to its laws. As part of his activity for ISIS, during the \u201cOperation Might and Sword\u201d war, Sarsour continued to consume and distribute dozens of extremely violent and brutal videos affiliated with the Islamic State and containing terrorist content. He shared these, among other platforms, via WhatsApp\u2014until his arrest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;He Has Maintained an Extreme Religious-Ideological Worldview for Years&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nIn its detention request, the prosecution noted that the defendant\u2019s actions demonstrate \u201chis exceptional danger to both public and national security. As an Israeli citizen, he adheres to an extreme religious-ideological worldview aligned with a particularly brutal and murderous terrorist organization, and is a member of that organization.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Prosecutor\u2019s Office has filed an indictment against an Israeli Arab from Kafr Qassem, accusing him of membership in the murderous terrorist organization ISIS; Indictments also filed against two Israeli Arabs from Deir al-Asad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":22482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,77,6,65],"tags":[2619,5429,5427,1770,5426,5428,3850,4003,1528,2515],"class_list":["post-22480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-idf","category-security","category-world","tag-counterterrorism","tag-deir-al-asad","tag-indictment","tag-isis","tag-israeli-arabs","tag-kafr-qassem","tag-national-security","tag-operation-might-and-sword","tag-shin-bet","tag-terrorism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.7 (Yoast SEO v24.7) - 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