Man stabbed to death in Holon, the third city resident to be killed this week
National Security Minister Ben Gvir has called to hold suspects without charge to combat violent crime
Michael Horovitz is a breaking news editor at The Times of Israel
A man died of his wounds after being stabbed overnight in Holon, medics said on Friday, amid a string of deadly incidents across the country.
Paramedics arrived on the stabbing scene and took the 22-year-old to Wolfson Medical Center with severe wounds to his upper body, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said in a statement.
He arrived at the hospital in serious condition where he succumbed to his wounds on Friday morning.
Police opened an investigation into the incident, which they believe to be criminal in nature.
The killing followed a spike in suspected homicides across Israel this week, and marked the third involving a Holon resident.
Overnight Wednesday-Thursday, Lior Grinberg, 48, known by police as a member of the Musli criminal gang, was shot to death in an apparent underworld hit, police said.
תיעוד חיסול של חבר בארגון פשע מוסלי.
ליאור גרינברג, בן 50, המוכר למשטרה, נורה למוות בראשו לאחר חצות אמש ברחוב נעמי שמר בחולון.
מחקירה ראשונית עולה כי ההרוג בן ה-50 השתייך לארגון הפשע מוסלי. pic.twitter.com/WqJujY10Sz— Asslan Khalil (@KhalilAsslan) April 27, 2023
Grinberg had been imprisoned in the past for violent offenses. He was indicted for the 2012 murder of Bat Yam resident Bar Cohen, but then acquitted in 2016.
Earlier Wednesday night, Moshe Ben Simhon, 26, a resident of Holon, was shot to death in the central city of Elad. Police opened an investigation into the incident, which was also believed to have a criminal background.
On the same day, a man was fatally wounded in a shooting in the northern Arab town of Kafr Yasif. He was taken to Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, where he was pronounced dead.
Additionally, a 33-year-old woman was found dead in her home in the southern Bedouin village of Abu Karinat early Thursday morning, suffering signs of abuse, police said.
Amid the spike in homicides, far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir called Thursday for holding suspects without charge as a means to combat violent crime.
Ben Gvir advocated for administrative detention and other administrative orders during an emergency meeting with top police brass that was called following the recent spike in killings. The controversial practice, which allows individuals to be held without charge practically indefinitely and the evidence against them to be withheld, is mostly used against Palestinian terror suspects, but also against Jewish extremists.
The far-right Otzma Yehudit party leader, who before entering the Knesset in 2021 served as a lawyer specializing in the defense of Jewish terror suspects, has long railed against administrative detention for Jews, including as recently as last month in response to the detention of four settlers.
