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2026.2.1 Hadera woman fires handgun at husband after catching him mid-sex act with coworker
On Saturday night, police brought the suspect to the Haifa Magistrate’s Court, where the woman’s defense attorney said she, a mother of two, discovered her husband mid-sex act with a coworker.
A Hadera Magistrate’s Court judge on Sunday extended the detention of a 40-year-old local resident suspected of taking her husband’s handgun and firing a single round toward him after having found him engaged in intercourse with a coworker the previous day, according to court proceedings and police.
No one was injured in the incident, which occurred beneath the couple’s building while the husband was on shift as a security guard. The woman expressed remorse in court and said she did not intend to kill her husband.
Police initially listed suspicions of attempted murder, theft of a weapon, discharging a firearm, and making threats.
However, Judge Ehud Kaplan said that based on the investigative file before him, he found no indication of an attempted murder or of theft of the weapon, and that the case likely concerns unlawful use of a firearm. The court ordered a 24-hour extension after police requested five days.
The alleged shooting occurred in the parking area under the couple’s home in Givat Olga. During Sunday’s remand hearing, the suspect told the court she wanted to return home to her son, who has special needs, and insisted she had no intention to harm her husband.
Woman returned home to find husband having sex with coworker
On Saturday night, police brought the suspect to the Haifa Magistrate’s Court, where Defense Attorney Nes Ben Natan said the woman, a mother of two, discovered her husband mid-sex act with a coworker during his security shift.
He argued that she grabbed the pistol in anger and fired at the floor to express her outrage. “This is what she says, and this is what her husband says,” the attorney told the court, noting she volunteered to take a polygraph and gave an uncontradicted statement.
Police representative Sgt. First Class Naif Kaabiya asked the court to extend the suspect’s detention by five days, while the defense sought her release, or alternatively, release under restrictive terms.
Judge Ilana Hadar partially granted the request, ordering a one-day extension. The woman was brought back to the Hadera Magistrate’s Court on Sunday as police continued to seek an additional five days.
“It was one shot,” Attorney Ben Natan argued in court. “If she wanted to hit him, she could have hit him. She did not want to harm him.”

2026.1.29 Jerusalem man indicted for premeditated murder, abduction of cousin’s husband

According to the indictment, Mizrahi planned the killing in advance, tracked the victim for days across Jerusalem and beyond, and prepared in advance to conceal his actions and destroy evidence.

The prosecution on Thursday filed an indictment against 26-year-old Avinoam Mizrahi from moshav Shafir, on the charge of premeditated murder of Moshe Tzabari, whom he is accused of abducting, stabbing, and pushing alive into a deep, abandoned water cistern, causing his death.

According to the indictment, Mizrahi planned the killing in advance, tracked the victim for days across Jerusalem and beyond, and prepared in advance to conceal his actions and destroy evidence.

The victim, Tzabari, was married to Mizrahi’s cousin. At the time of the events, the couple were separated and embroiled in an ongoing dispute, of which Mizrahi was aware, according to the indictment.

Prosecutors allege that on the night of December 7, Mizrahi followed Tzabari from Bat Yam to Jerusalem and later lay in wait near Tzabari’s home in the neighborhood of Pisgat Ze’ev. After disabling his phone and disguising his appearance, Mizrahi allegedly entered Tzabari’s vehicle, concealed identifying features of the car, and forced him to drive out of the city.

The two traveled to a remote area south of Route 35, near the Zoharim youth village, where Mizrahi is accused of stabbing Tzabari in the thigh and cutting both his arms before pushing him alive into a dry water cistern approximately 25 meters deep. The indictment states that Tzabari suffered severe blunt-force trauma and massive blood loss and died as a result of the combined injuries.

After the killing, Mizrahi allegedly drove the victim’s car to Malachim Forest, where he set it on fire in an effort to erase evidence and hinder efforts to locate the victim. He then returned home on foot, a distance of roughly 18 kilometers, prosecutors said.

Charges include murder, arson, kidnapping, destruction of evidence
The indictment charges Mizrahi with murder with aggravating circumstances, kidnapping for the purpose of murder, arson, illegal possession of a knife, destruction of evidence, and violation of privacy, citing prolonged surveillance of the victim prior to the killing.

Alongside the indictment, the prosecution requested that Mizrahi be remanded in custody until the end of proceedings, citing the extreme severity of the alleged acts, the danger he poses to the public, and a concrete risk of flight and obstruction of justice.

The prosecution noted, in its detention request, that Mizrahi was found in possession of a one-way airline ticket to Paris dated December 30, which prosecutors say indicates an intention to flee the country if released. Mizrahi has been in custody since December 28.

Attorney Idan Gamlieli, who represents Mizrahi on behalf of the Public Defender’s Office, said, “We are at the very early stages of the legal proceedings. Naturally, we have not yet received the investigative materials. After we receive and study them, we will present Avinoam’s arguments.”

Attorney Ravit Zilberfarb, who represents the victim’s family on behalf of the Justice Ministry’s Legal Aid Department, said the family was “stunned and shaken by the brutal murder, carried out by the cousin of the victim’s estranged wife, without any apparent motive,” and said they trust law enforcement authorities “to fully pursue justice and uncover the truth.” She added that the family is focused on mourning and has asked to refrain from interpretations regarding the circumstances of the killing, which “are not yet fully understood even by the family.”

2026.1.4 Terrorist sentenced to life in prison for murder of 83-year-old Holocaust survivor
The court also ordered him to pay the maximum compensation permitted by law – NIS 258,000 – to Lipovsky’s family.
The Tel Aviv District Court on Sunday sentenced Ibrahim Shalhoub, 29, from the West Bank city of Tulkarm, to life imprisonment for the murder of Ludmila Lipovsky, an 83-year-old woman who was stabbed to death i in Herzliya in December 2024.
Shalhoub pleaded guilty and was convicted of murder under aggravated circumstances as an act of terrorism, as well as unlawful possession of a knife. The court also ordered him to pay the maximum compensation permitted by law – NIS 258,000 – to Lipovsky’s family.
According to the indictment and court findings, the attack took place on December 27, 2024, near a commercial area adjacent to an assisted-living complex in Herzliya.
Shalhoub armed himself with a knife and attacked Lipovsky at close range, stabbing her approximately 11 times. She later died of her wounds. Shalhoub was shot by security personnel and apprehended at the scene.
Shalhoub had been living in Israel after being relocated from the West Bank following the exposure of his past cooperation with Israeli security authorities. The court noted that he was living in Israel lawfully when he carried out the attack.
‘Exceptionally brutal’ act of terror against defenseless woman
In its sentencing decision, the court described the killing as an exceptionally brutal act of terror carried out against a defenseless elderly woman. Senior Judge Yaron Levy wrote that the offense gravely violated protected social values and was intended to terrorize the civilian population.
The ruling emphasized that the attack was committed during wartime, when Israel’s home front was under sustained threat. The court cited the broader social harm caused by such attacks, noting that beyond the murder itself, the act conveyed a message that no civilian or public space is safe.
During sentencing arguments, the prosecution sought a life sentence, stressing the severity of the attack and its timing. Prosecutor Hadas Forer Gafni told the court that the murder was carried out at a moment of heightened national anxiety, when Israel was facing attacks on multiple fronts.
“The horrifying murder was committed during a war, when fears are at their peak, and the state is under attack from every direction,” the prosecution said. “A terror attack of this kind in the heart of Herzliya is all the more severe.”
The court rejected defense arguments for leniency, finding no mitigating circumstances that could reduce Shalhoub’s culpability. In addition to the life sentence, the judges stressed the importance of deterrence and of imposing the harshest punishment available under Israeli law in cases of terror murder.
The sentence was handed down on Sunday, bringing the criminal proceedings to a close just over a year after the stabbing, which shocked residents of Herzliya and renewed public focus on lone-actor attacks carried out by individuals legally present inside Israel.