Hussam Kawasme, the mastermind behind the kidnapping of three Israeli teens, was arrested on on July 11th, the state prosecution said on Tuesday.
Kawasma gave the mid-June order to Marwan Kawasme and Amir Abu Eisha to kidnap Eyal Yifrah, Naftali Fraenkel and Gil-Ad Shaer, according to the state.
The revelations arose in the state's legal response to the High Court of Justice justifying its request to demolish the residences of the three suspected terrorists' families.
Hussam confessed not only that he gave the orders, but also that he collected weapons and raised funding for the attack by the Hamas cell, the state said.
In addition, Hussam assisted Marwan in concealing the bodies by burying them on land he had bought in recent months.
Next, Hussam was attempting to flee the area and disappear across the Jordanian border with false documents subsequent to the bodies being found, when he was caught back in mid-July.
The state said that the evidence it had was at the level of near certainty, after interrogating Hussam.
That said, confessions to police can be withdrawn at trial, and to date, Hussam has not been indicted, and may not be for some time still.
Kawasme and Abu Aysha are still at large.
The High Court of Justice on Thursday had frozen three IDF demolition orders against those residences. The knocking down of the family homes were originally scheduled for late Thursday afternoon.
On July 1, the state dropped a self-imposed ban on house demolitions that had been in place since 2005.
Back in June, the Shin Bet revealed the identity of the two suspects involved in the kidnapping of the three youths, after a wide-scale search.
Marwan Kawasme and Amar Abu Aysha are from Hebron and longstanding Hamas members.
The Shin Bet added that both were wanted as soon as security forces learned of the kidnapping.
Eyal Yifrah, 19, and Naftali Fraenkel and Gil-Ad Shaer, both 16, went missing on the night of June 12 while hitchhiking outside a settlement in Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem.