A mentally ill Palestinian man who stabbed a British woman to death near Jerusalem's Old City was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Thursday by an Israeli court.
Hannah Bladon, 20, was stabbed to death on April 14, 2017, by Jamil Tamimi, a Palestinian resident of east Jerusalem aged 57 at the time.
Bladon, a student at Britain's University of Birmingham, was in Jerusalem on a semester-long exchange programme at the Hebrew University.
She had been riding a tram close to the Old City when she was stabbed by Tamimi seven times.
Tamimi, who was convicted on December 31 and sentenced on Thursday in a plea bargain, had been released from a mental health institution the previous day.
He was furious his children refused his request to stay with them and "resolved to stab someone to death with a knife" he had bought, the ruling said.
Tamimi was diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia but fit to stand trial and accountable for his actions - but possibly to a slightly lesser degree, according to the doctors who examined him.
He was convicted of murder, with the 18-year prison term constituting a "lesser sentence", the ruling said.
The court noted Tamimi had been sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2000 for committing a sexual crime against a minor in his family.
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