Six teenagers have been arrested over the killing of 21-year old pizzeria worker Yemanu Binyamin Zelka in Petah Tikva on Independence Day. He was stabbed to death after he asked a group of teenagers not to use party spray in the restaurant.
The six are aged 13 to 17, according to Haaretz.
Reports say some 10 youths were involved in the assault, though they indicate police believe one of them was primarily responsible for the lethal stabbing.
Zelka was on shift at a Pizza Hut restaurant in the Kfar Ganim neighborhood at around 1 a.m. on Wednesday when he approached a group of teenagers who were acting disruptively and using the party spray popular with children and teens on the holiday.
After Zelka politely asked them to stop, the teens waited outside for him to finish his shift, and then attacked him when he left the building, according to Hebrew media reports and a statement by Petah Tikva Mayor Rami Greenberg.
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