Muhammad Zakut stabbed three Israeli with a commando knife as he shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is great).
One of the victims, Kurt Moshe Schallinger, 73, was killed as he left his car on a Tel Aviv street full of children in costume, celebrating the holiday of Purim.
He murdered two Israelis and severely injured a third in the back of his head and his spinal cord before being caught.
[3] Prior to the attack, the assailant, Muhammad Zakut, was a construction worker and later in a laundromat in Tel Aviv.
Zakut received a life sentence, but on 18 October 2011 he was released to Gaza as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas.