Israeli Arab confesses to murder of 20-year old Israeli Jew, Shelly Dadon

"Israel Police announced [on July 6, 2014] that an Israeli Arab was behind the murder of 20-year-old Shelly Dadon in an empty parking lot in northern Israel on May 1, and that the killer is suspected to have had nationalistic motives. The suspect is Hussein Khalifa, 34, from Iblin, a taxi driver who drove workers to and from factories in the Migdal Haemek industrial zone, according to the ISA – Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet). "During ISA questioning, Hussein Khalifa confessed to murdering Dadon and disclosed many details regarding the murder," Shin Bet investigators said in a statement. "On the morning of the day of the murder...he picked up the deceased. She requested that he drive her to a job interview in the industrial zone. He drove her to an abandoned parking lot on the outskirts of the industrial zone (not far from her requested destination) where he stabbed her to death and fled the scene in his cab....The announcement comes after a months-long investigation into Dadon's death."

Nine days after the murder, some 2,000 people marched in Afula in Dadon's memory - without rioting.