The woman who was murdered in her Bat Yam apartment yesterday, presumably by her partner, is named as Yelena Galovsky, Hebrew outlets report.
First responders found the 51-year-old victim stabbed to death in her apartment yesterday morning after she recently separated from her husband, Yevgeny Galovsky.
Galovsky, the prime suspect, is said to have repeatedly stabbed his wife in the early morning in the presence of their 18-year-old daughter, who reported the murder at around 9 a.m. The couple had no criminal history.
The recently estranged husband then ascended to the roof of their apartment building and stayed there for hours.
Russian-speaking police negotiators tried to convince Galovsky to come down from the roof to no avail, police said yesterday. After nine hours, the likely killer jumped from the five-story building and was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to the Israel Women’s Network, 14 women have been murdered in Israel since the start of the year, 13 of them by a partner or relative.
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