Man convicted of murdering IDF soldier and teenage boy in 1980s dies in prison at 68

Atif Sabihi, a 68-year-old inmate convicted of the 1982 murder and rape of 21-year-old IDF soldier Daphna Carmon and the 1983 murder of 14-year-old Danny Katz, has died in prison. Throughout his incarceration, Sabihi maintained his innocence, consistently claiming that his initial confessions were obtained under duress. According to the Times of Israel, Sabihi was serving a life sentence at the time of his death. The murders of Carmon and Katz remain among the most high-profile criminal cases in Israeli judicial history, having drawn significant public attention for decades.