Israeli prisoner Adam Ital, who is serving four consecutive life sentences for four murders, will be marrying a former prison guard, the Mako news site reported Sunday.
At the time Ital, 38, was on trial, he was married. His wife, Yifat, supported him throughout the court proceedings. After he was imprisoned, the couple had a baby girl, who is now five. Since his daughter's birth, Ital and his wife divorced, and through friends he was introduced to a woman who used to work as a prison guard. His fiancée is considerably younger than he is.
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Ital was convicted of murder in the deaths of teenagers Eitan Izmailov and Ruslan Kobayev at a Beersheba kiosk, and for another attempted murder in the case of a friend of the two teens who survived the attack but sustained serious injuries.
Later, Ital was convicted for the murder of two Bedouin criminals in Beersheba. Ital maintains that he is innocent and that he was convicted based on circumstantial evidence. In the years since he was imprisoned, he has filed a few appeals to the Supreme Court, all of which were rejected.
After he was put in solitary confinement at the Eshel Prison in Beersheba, where he is serving his sentences, Ital asked the warden for permission to marry his fiancée, the former prison guard. He also asked for permission to hold the ceremony at a wedding venue, but his second request was denied on the grounds that it would be a security risk. The warden allowed him to be married on prison grounds.
"Adam and his bride met through close friends. There is great love between them and he's in seventh heaven. His fiancée encourages him and gives him strength. They speak several times a day and have met a few times," one of Ital's relatives told Mako.
"They opened a marriage file with the Beersheba Rabbinate and are waiting for a day to formalize their relationship," the relative said.
