Israeli Arab who left Israel to join Syrian terror group sentenced

Ibrahim Alyakim was sentenced on Thursday to sixty months in prison after he made his way to Syria to join the Jabhat al-Nusra (also known as Al-Nusra Front).

According to the verdict, Alyakim, a resident of Kafr Yasif in northern Israel, illegally exited the State of Israel and made his way to Syria where he stayed for half a year. During his six months in the war-torn country, Alikim participated in forbidden military exercises of the Jihadist organization which is declared an outlawed organization.