The State of Israel has filed a civil lawsuit in Haifa Magistrate’s Court seeking about 2 million shekels from four terrorists linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who kidnapped and murdered soldier Moshe Tamam in 1984. The case was filed by the State Attorney’s Office on behalf of the Defense Ministry, and it aims to recover money the state has paid and continues to pay to Tamam’s bereaved parents, Galya Tamam and the late Eliyahu Tamam, for the financial damage caused by the attack.
The defendants are convicted terrorists Ibrahim Abd al-Razak Bayadsa, Ibrahim Naif Abu Mukh, Salah Abu Mukh, formerly Rashdi Abu Mukh, and the estate of Walid Nimer Asaad Daka, who led the cell and ordered Tamam’s killing. Daka died in 2024 while still serving his sentence. All four were residents of Baqa al-Gharbiyye at the time.
According to the lawsuit, filed by attorney Einat Shterman-Cohen of the Haifa District Attorney’s Office, the men abducted Tamam in August 1984 while he was waiting for a ride near Netanya. They bound him, blindfolded him, held him for two days, then took him to an olive grove near Mevo Dotan, where they murdered him brutally after keeping him for five days and left his body there.
The state argues that the perpetrators, not the public, should bear the financial consequences of their actions. The filing says their conduct reflected a “loss of human and moral direction” and a grave attack on the protected values of life, body and mind, made worse by its nationalist motive and by the fact that they were Israeli citizens. The petition also quotes the original sentencing, which described the killing as a “horrific murder” carried out in cold blood with planning and premeditation because Tamam was a soldier in the IDF.
