CCTV footage
WATCH: Stabbing terrorist clobbered with pizza tray
Footage from security camera shows moments when Shlomi Madar cracked a terrorist, who stabbed a bus driver in Petah Tikva, over the head with a pizza tray from his pizza parlor before giving chase.
A new video has surfaced showing the moments in which an owner of a pizza parlor in central Petah Tikva used a wooden pizza tray to strike a terrorist who carried out a stabbing attack
in the area before giving chase.
Since the attack, the pizzeria owner, Shlomi Madar has told the story multiple times about how he managed to fend off the terrorist with the tray, but the footage shows the fateful moments when he spotted the terrorist approaching him and quickly grabbed the wooden block before clobbering him over the head with it.
In the attack, a 35-year-old bus driver, Abed al-Fatah Abu Halal from Ar'ara was moderately-to-severely wounded after being stabbed in the torso and neck by a 21-year-old Palestinian from Qalqilya. The victim was rushed to Rabin Medical Center where he underwent emergency surgery.
Pounding a terrorist over the head with a pizza tray
The terrorist reportedly told police that he "did it for Al-Aqsa." He was previously incarcerated between 2015 - 2016 for a nationalistically motivated attack.
After the terrorist ran off, Madar ran after him and, with the help of others, managed to subdue the attacker.
Shlomi Madar (Photo: Raanan Ben Zur)
“I saw the terrorist running in my direction and he tried to come into the shop. He stabbed the counter a few times. I stopped him coming in by bashing the pizza tray on his head,” Madar recalled after the attack.
