World Prisons
All persons

Yishai Schlissel

2000

Nationality
Israel

Yishai Schlissel (also spelled Shlisel; Hebrew: ישי שליסל; born 10 December 1975) is a convicted Israeli murderer.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Ayalon Prison
    Dates unknown
  2. Maasiyahu Prison
    Dates unknown

Biography

Yishai Schlissel (also spelled Shlisel; Hebrew: ישי שליסל; born 10 December 1975) is a convicted Israeli murderer. He stabbed marchers during the Jerusalem gay pride parade in 2005, for which he served ten years in prison. On 30 July 2015, during the 2015 Jerusalem gay pride, he stabbed 16-year-old Shira Banki to death and wounded five other people. The incident occurred just three weeks after his release from prison. On 24 August, Schlissel was indicted for murder, five counts of attempted murder, and wounding under aggravating circumstances, and detained until the end of proceedings. On 26 June 2016, he was sentenced to life plus 31 years in prison, as well as a fine of NIS 2,064,000 (around $650,000) in damages.

Related people

Same nationality and era where possible; falls back to shared nationality or era.

  • Batszewa Dagan
    Batszewa Dagan
    1925–2024Israel

    Bat-Sheva Dagan (Hebrew: בת-שבע דגן; 8 September 1925 – 25 January 2024) was a Polish-Israeli orator, psychologist, and writer.

  • Arieh Eckstein
    Arieh Eckstein
    1929–2015Israel
  • Menahem Sherman
    1925–2021Israel
  • Michal Efrath
    Michal Efrath
    1926–2017Israel
  • Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim
    1925–2023Israel

    Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim (Yiddish: רבקה באסמאן; 20 February 1925 – 22 March 2023) was a Lithuanian-born Israeli Yiddish poet and educator.

  • Raja Eghbariah
    Raja Eghbariah
    1952Israel

    Raja Eghbaria (Arabic: رجا إغبارية, born 1952) is a Palestinian-Israeli activist.