Born: 1993;

Place of Birth: Israel;

Gender: Male;

Nationality: Israeli;

General Info:
One of the assailants who carried out a shooting that killed two people in the central Israeli city of Hadera, who was previously convicted in 2016 for attempting to enter Syria and fight for the Islamic State.

He was arrested by Turkish police in 2016 as he was about to board a bus headed for the Syrian border and was later extradited back to Israel.

In Turkey he was charged with illegally exiting the country and for attempting to join the Islamic State terrorist group.

The prosecution demanded Agbarieh serve between 20 and 36 months in prison, but the judge decided on a lighter sentence.

According to the indictment, he went to Turkey with $2,300 in his possession and traveled to the city of Gaziantep, which is about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the Syrian border.

Information provided to Turkey by Israeli authorities led to the arrest, and Agbarieh was later tried on charges that included attempting to join a terrorist organization.

Agbarieh expressed full support for the Islamic State’s ideology, including its practice of execution by beheading, and for burning a Jordanian pilot alive in 2015.

Agbarieh had also tried to recruit others to the ranks of the Islamic State.

His indictment, which was filed in Hadera Magistrate’s Court, alleged that he began watching videos that included content linked to the Islamic State and saved some of them on his computer.

He was accused of planning on taking a camera-equipped drone to Syria to assist the Islamic State in combat. He began to examine ways to enter Syria via the Turkish border in May 2016.

At a hearing requesting to have him remain in custody until the end of the legal proceedings against him, the court found that he posed the highest level of risk in what the court described as his deep identification not only with the Islamic State and Sharia (Islamic law) but also with the Islamic State’s ruthless activity.

Agbarieh claimed that he should be released from custody in part because he had no prior criminal record and that his brother was an Israeli policeman.

His brother is currently an investigator at a police station in the Sharon region north of Tel Aviv.

Ibrahim Agbarieh served his sentence at Gilboa prison in northern Israel between July 2016 and December 2017. While there (according to a Palestinian source), he was placed in a wing reserved for Hamas prisoners.