Hebron resident Amin Jamil Amro was sentenced to 33 months in prison Wednesday for sending a threatening fax to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The 32-year-old man was also convicted at attempted assault, after he arrived at the Gush Etzion junction in the West Bank with a knife in order to of stab Israelis at the site.
According to the indictment, Amro walked in the Hebron public library in June 2009 and sent a fax to the Prime Minister's Office, threatening that the PM will be murdered within a few days.
Amro signed the letter with his real name and also provided his personal identification card number. Later on, the Hebron resident arrived at the Gush Etzion junction with a 10-centimeter knife. His conduct aroused the suspicions of IDF soldiers at the site and he turned himself in to them.
Amro faced 23 criminal cases in the past over the hurling of stones and a Molotov cocktail. He had also been given a conditional sentence after entering Israel illegally.
Amro confessed to the offences attributed to him, but his attorney provided an unusual explanation for his client's acts. Amro wanted to be arrested by IDF forces because of a dispute with his family, the lawyer said, adding this is why his client included his personal details in the threatening fax to Netanyahu.
However, the military judge was unimpressed by the odd line of defense, sentencing Amro to a jail term.