The State Attorney’s Office filed an indictment against a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University accused of planning an extreme and murderous plot against hundreds of Arab citizens of Israel

The indictment was filed Monday in the Central District Court in Lod against a mathematics lecturer, about 60, from Petach Tikva, charging him with preparing an act of terror under the Counter-Terrorism Law, extortion by threats, and obstruction of justice.

According to the indictment, against the backdrop of the “Guardian of the Walls” riots, and more intensely following the “Swords of Iron” war, the defendant decided, out of a nationalist-ideological motive, to plan and carry out numerous simultaneous terror attacks. The aim was to cause the deaths of many hundreds of Arab citizens of Israel, including Bedouin, across the country, as well as Arabs living in eastern Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, in order to bring about their flight and permanent expulsion to Jordan, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.

For more than three years, from early February 2023 until his arrest about two weeks ago, he allegedly devised a detailed plan he called “Ayit,” a Hebrew acronym for “the nation will carry out transfer.” Prosecutors say he took concrete preparatory steps, including advance field tours, drafting documents laying out the method of operation and its justifications, and attempting to recruit participants.

Under the plan, 72 Jewish attackers, at least half of them licensed gun owners and including the defendant himself, would be divided into 12 cells of six. Armed with pistols, rifles, axes and hammers, they would launch surprise mass attacks in mixed cities and Arab towns across Israel. The plan also envisioned pre-coordinated backing from subversive elements to be recruited from within the IDF, including the bombing of Arab population centers by the Air Force, Artillery Corps and Armored Corps.

According to the indictment, he tried for about a year and a half to recruit supporters and partners, without success. He also conducted a preliminary tour near the town of Tuba-Zangariyye, which he wanted as a central target, to study the best access and attack routes.

The indictment states that the defendant planned to approach Moshe Feiglin, who is running in the upcoming elections for the 26th Knesset as head of the Zehut list and No. 2 on the joint Zehut–Religious Zionism slate, to recruit him to the plan and then enlist additional activists with his help. He sought to invite pre-selected activists to a Zehut election rally, where they would be told they were being drafted for an attack the following day and handed a briefing with detailed instructions.

Prosecutors stressed that Feiglin did not respond to any of the defendant’s approaches. The indictment says the defendant then sent Feiglin a letter threatening to publicize it and damage him ahead of the elections unless he cooperated. Zehut said that as soon as the letters arrived, Feiglin and party leadership filed a formal police complaint.