Man who stabbed officer was freed in 2013 after killing professor

The Palestinian who stabbed and lightly wounded an Israeli Border Policeman in Jerusalem’s Old City Wednesday evening is the convicted killer of an Israel Prize-winning professor, Ynet news reported. Muammar Ata Mahmoud, 56 of Hebron, was released in 2013 as part of the ultimately-failed round of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Mahmoud, along with Salah Khalil Ahmad Ibrahim (also released in 2013) was convicted of murdering Menahem Stern, a history professor at Hebrew University. Stern was stabbed to death while walking to work at the university’s Givat Ram campus on June 22, 1989. In addition, the two murdered a Palestinian suspected of collaborating with Israel, Hassin Zaid.
Stern’s daughter Meira Stern-Glick protested the pair’s release at the time, saying it caused her “great distress” and called their freedom unjust.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-stabber-is-convicted-murderer-freed-in-2013/