An 85-year-old Israeli man was killed and a 20-year-old soldier was wounded in a terror ramming, stabbing, and shooting attack that occurred near HaTishbi junction on Route 66 on Monday, police and Magen David Adom reported.
MDA paramedics initially provided medical treatment to Moshe “Musa” Horn, 85, from Kibbutz Hazorea, however, he was pronounced dead at the scene. His 51-year-old son was with him in the vehicle and, according to local media, attempted to thwart the terrorist with his own personal weapon.
The military later said that a wounded 20-year-old man was an IDF soldier and that he was evacuated to the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa in serious condition.
The soldier underwent surgery at Rambam and was transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) in stable condition.
Israel Police Commissioner Daniel Levi said the terrorist, an Israeli Arab, accelerated and rammed his vehicle into pedestrians at a bus stop and then exited the car with a knife and stabbed a soldier who was at the stop. The terrorist then took the soldier’s weapon and opened fire on civilians and vehicles.
“We are in the midst of the month of Ramadan and are deployed together with all security forces in all sectors to maintain the safety of the residents of the State of Israel,” Levi added.
The terrorist was thwarted by police. Local media reports said police officers were passing by the scene on their way to unit training when they noticed a terrorist armed with a weapon firing at civilians.
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The terrorist was named as Karem Jabarin, 25, from Ma’aleh Iron in northern Israel.
Paramedics arrive at the scene
MDA paramedic Ofer Vinik recounted what he saw upon arrival at the scene. “We arrived at the location and saw a male around 70 years old and a male around 20 near the bus stop, both suffering from penetrating wounds. We performed medical examinations on the 70-year-old male, but he had no pulse and was not breathing, and unfortunately, we had to pronounce him dead at the scene.
“Additional MDA teams provided medical treatment to the 20-year-old, who was conscious, and urgently evacuated him in an MDA mobile intensive care unit to the hospital in a serious and unstable condition,” he added.
The Border Police officer who thwarted the terrorist told KAN Reshet Bet: “Anyone who wasn’t there at the time cannot understand what I experienced at that moment. I was sitting in a car, a civilian said there was a terrorist in the area. We got out and eliminated the terrorist; we prevented a major attack.”
Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack on Monday.
Moshe Horn
According to a statement from the kibbutz, Horn was a father of four, grandfather of ten, and “one of the pillars of Kibbutz Hazorea.”
“My heart aches for the Horn family and the entire Kibbutz Hazorea community,” President Isaac Herzog wrote in a post on X/Twitter following the attack.
הלב כואב יחד עם משפחת הורן וכל קהילת קיבוץ הזורע על הירצחו של משה "מוסה" הורן בן ה-85, שהיה דמות משמעותית בקיבוץ ובקהילה. אני מחזק בשעה קשה זו את בנו שהיה עימו ברגעים המזעזעים הללו, ושולח חיבוק תנחומים למשפחתו ורפואה שלמה לחייל שנפצע בפיגוע המתועב.
— יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog (@Isaac_Herzog) March 24, 2025
“In this difficult time, I extend my support to his son, who was with him during these horrific moments, send my heartfelt condolences to his family, and wish a full recovery to the soldier injured in this despicable attack.”