Man charged with attempted murder of his parents

A 25-year-old man from the northern city of Zichron Yaakov is charged with the attempted murder of his parents last month.

According to the charge sheet read out at the Haifa District Court, Mordechai Carmi was living in his parents’ apartment on the day he allegedly attacked them. His sister was also at home at the time.

Carmi was sitting and eating dates with a knife in his hand.

He allegedly went over to his father and stabbed him at least seven times, in the chest, shoulder and hands, breaking a joint in his father’s thumb.

When his mother tried to intervene, he allegedly stabbed her in the back and the hand.

Carmi’s mother was able to call her brother-in-law, as well as the police and emergency services, but when they arrived, Carmi tried to block them from entering the home, and spat on and cursed his father, who was lying on the floor.

The mother managed to get out of the house on her own and the ambulance driver and a paramedic succeeded in evacuating the father 10 minutes later. Both parents were hospitalized — the father in mortal danger — for several days.

— Sue Surkes