The State Attorney’s Office filed a civil lawsuit Thursday in Haifa Magistrate’s Court, on behalf of the Defense Ministry, seeking about NIS 2 million from four members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine convicted of kidnapping and murdering soldier Moshe Tamam in 1984.
The suit says the goal is to recover money paid, and still being paid, by the state to Tamam’s bereaved parents, Galya Tamam and the late Eliyahu Tamam, for the financial damage caused by the attack. The defendants are Ibrahim Abd al-Razak Biadsa, Ibrahim Naif Abu Mukh, Saleh, formerly Rushdi, Abu Mukh, and the estate of Walid Nimer Asaad Daka, described as the cell leader who allegedly ordered Tamam’s murder. Daka died in 2024 while serving his sentence.
According to the filing, the four, then residents of Baqa al-Gharbia, abducted Tamam in August 1984 while he was waiting for a ride near Netanya, tied him up, blindfolded him and held him for several days. They later took him to an olive grove near Mevo Dotan, killed him and left him there. They were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, and a criminal court imposed those sentences in 1987.
Attorney Einat Shterman-Cohen of the Haifa District Prosecutor’s Office said, “Those who kidnapped and murdered Moshe Tamam and caused such a heavy loss to his family must also bear the financial consequences of their actions, not the public as a whole.” The filing also says the crimes reflected a “human and moral loss of direction” and a grave violation of protected social values, especially the sanctity of life, bodily integrity and mental integrity, aggravated by their nationalist motive and by the fact that the perpetrators were Israeli citizens. The state filed the case together with the Defense Ministry’s legal claims unit and the ministry’s Families, Commemoration and Heritage Division.
