A U.S.-born Jewish settler was indicted on murder and other charges in a Jerusalem court on Thursday for allegedly killing two Palestinians and carrying out a string of bomb attacks.
Jack Teitel, a 37-year-old immigrant from the United States, was arrested in October on suspicion of murdering the men in 1997 while visiting Israel as a tourist. He is also suspected of being behind a string of bomb attacks since 2006.
It's been a pleasure and an honor to serve my god
"It's been a pleasure and an honor to serve my god," the man dubbed "the Jewish terrorist" by the Israeli press told reporters as he arrived at court.
"No regrets," he said.
Teitel was indicted on a total of 14 charges, including two of premeditated murder and three of attempted murder, local media reported.
Police say Teitel has confessed to the murder of a Palestinian taxi-driver in east Jerusalem and a shepherd in the West Bank, saying the murders were to avenge Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel.
Teitel is also alleged to have placed a bomb near a convent outside Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem, two years ago, wounding a Palestinian.
In another bomb attack, a 15-year-old boy was seriously wounded when a device was concealed in a parcel sent to his parents, members of a Jewish sect which embraces Jesus.
Another bomb wounded a leading leftwing Israeli professor, Zeev Sternhell, while two other attacks targeted police stations, police say.
He was arrested in October while putting up "Death to sodomites" posters and confessed to bombing the police stations "to divert police from protecting gay pride parades," according to police.
The father of four is a resident of the Shvut Rachel settlement in the occupied West Bank.
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