From Police arrest 7 relatives of Bedouin woman murdered in Negev town
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePolice have arrested seven relatives of a woman murdered in the Negev this week on suspicion of involvement in her death, Arab outlets report.
Aisha Abu-Wadi, a widow in her 30s from Kuseife, was getting out of a taxi to visit her children at school in the Bedouin town on Monday when she was shot dead by a masked man who fled the scene.
Abu-Wadi was murdered amid a long-running custody dispute between her and the family of her late husband, who was killed in a traffic accident a few years ago.
Her children moved in with their paternal grandparents soon after her husband’s death, and the widow struggled to visit them.
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Her death added to the spiraling homicide rate in the Arab community. In a 2024 report, the Israel Observatory on Femicide found that a disproportionate number of female murder victims are Arab, comprising half of the 20 women killed in Israel that year.
According to the anti-violence watchdog Abraham Initiatives, there have been 31 homicides in the Arab community since the beginning of 2025, compared to 17 during the same period last year.
The Times of Israel Community.