Wasim a-Sayed

Wasim a-Sayed is a Palestinian serial killer who was responsible for three fatal stabbings in the city of Jerusalem in 2019 and 2022. He was captured by Israeli security forces in January 2022 after attempting to cross the Israeli West Bank barrier.

Early life Sayed was born in Hebron around 1988. He was radicalized to support the Islamic State (IS), a Salafi Jihadist terror group. Sayed was placed under administrative detention from 2015 to 2018 due to security concerns over his ties to IS. According to Channel 13, he later told investigators that "I decided that I will murder Jews, but I won’t tell anyone about it. It will only be between myself and my God. I decided that the Islamic State is my path. I looked for Jewish victims. I wanted to murder a man or a woman, but no children." with a kippah named Yehuda Kaduri unloading his groceries from his car. Yehuda went inside the apartment to place his shopping bags and then walked out to get the remaining supplies. Sayed saw his chance and entered the building, where he walked into Kaduri's room. The knifeman went into the bedroom where he murdered Yehuda's wife Tamar. Nitai and his wife were detained shortly after he was told that his parents had been killed, and then sent to an interrogation room. Nitai later accused the police of using "brutal" tactics and criticized them for a lack of transparency.

Arnona murders On the night of March 20–21, 2022, Sayed entered an apartment in the Arnona neighbourhood of Jerusalem and murdered Moldovan foreign worker Ivan Tarnovski, who he thought was a Jew. Another Moldovan national was seriously injured. Police were alerted at around 1:30 am.

Sayed left the scene and was caught by security forces a few hours later as he tried to cross the Israeli West Bank barrier.

Capture After Sayed was arrested for illegally crossing the border with a knife, it was realized that he was responsible for killing Tarnovski.