2 Bedouin tribalists arrested in murder of IDF soldier

Some suspects have been arrested in the murder of the IDF soldier in Arad last week:

Two Bedouin Israelis were arrested on Friday on suspicion that they had stabbed a soldier to death in southern Israel last week, the Shin Bet security service announced on Monday.

On Thursday night, Sgt. Ron Kokia was stabbed to death at a bus stop in the city of Arad in what the Shin Bet said was a terror attack.

The assailants stole the soldier’s gun and fled the scene, prompting a widespread manhunt across southern Israel.

Two suspects from southern Israel were arrested a day later, but the information was not immediately cleared for publication. On Monday, that gag order was partially removed.

According to the Shin Bet, one of the suspects admitted during an interrogation to murdering Kokia.

“He even led Shin Bet investigators to retrieve the soldier’s gun,” the service said in a statement.

The Bedouin Islamists are just as dangerous today as any other, and their evil led to an innocent man's death.