Israeli officials have said the main suspect in New Zealand’s mosque attacks made a brief visit to Israel in late 2016.
Brenton Tarrant, an Australian national, entered Israel in October 2016 on a three-month tourist visa and stayed for nine days, an official with Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority told Reuters.
Tarrant is the suspected gunman in Friday’s attacks in the city of Christchurch in which 50 people were killed in New Zealand’s worst peacetime mass shooting.
The official said there were no further details available on what Tarrant, 28, did during his stay in Israel.
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