😱 Mar 31, 2022: Haaretz > #Israel’s Terror Wave: The Arab Officer Who Became a National Hero. - #Israel

 Allison Kaplan Sommer

Mar 31, 2022

www.haaretz.com

Amir Khoury, an Arab-Israeli officer, rushed to the scene of a terror attack and fought the shooter. He was the second Arab cop to die in the current wave of terror attacks, two of which were conducted by Arab-Israelis

Media coverage in Israel in recent days focused on the fact that two of the deadly terror attacks that have shocked the country were committed by Arab citizens of Israel – a worrying development that casts a dark shadow on Jewish-Arab relations.

But that’s only one part of the story. Just as significant is the fact that two of those killed in the latest terror wave were Arab-Israeli policemen who lost their lives protecting others.

Amir Khoury, 32, grew up in an Arab-Christian family in northern Israel and joined the Israel Police, as other members of his family had done before him. On Tuesday night, while on assignment in the central Israeli city of Bnei Brak, he rushed to the scene of a shooting attack after hearing about it on his radio.

Riding a motorcycle, Khoury identified the Palestinian gunman who was carrying out the attack and opened fire on him. He was killed by one of the attacker’s final bullets, but played an important role in stopping him before other innocent civilians were harmed. His partner, whose name has not been made public, eventually killed the terrorist.

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