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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

Haftom Zarhum

Security camera footage showing an Eritrean man being shot in the Beersheba central bus station on October 18, 2015, after he was thought to be a terrorist. (screen capture: Channel 2)
September 6, 2020, 5:19 pm
Prosecutors appeal acquittal of men who lynched migrant mistaken for terrorist
Supreme Court to discuss case of IDF soldier and Prisons Service officer filmed beating Eritrean man Haftom Zarhum in aftermath of 2015 terror attack in Beersheba
By Michael Bachner
Security camera footage showing an Eritrean man being shot in the Beersheba central bus station on October 18, 2015, after he was thought to be a terrorist. (screen capture: Channel 2)
July 20, 2020, 11:29 am
Court acquits men who lynched Eritrean migrant they mistook for terrorist
Judge lets two men off the hook for beating Haftom Zarhum, who was already critically injured in aftermath of 2015 terror attack
By ToI Staff
Paramedics treating victims after a terror attack at the Beersheba Central Bus Station on October 18, 2015. (screen capture: Channel 2)
November 18, 2018, 4:01 pm
Man convicted on reduced charge in lynching of Eritrean mistaken for terrorist
Like another defendant before him, Evyatar Dimri to get lenient punishment for his part in killing Haftom Zarhum in aftermath of 2015 terror attack in Beersheba
By ToI Staff
Paramedics treating victims after a terror attack at the Beersheba Central Bus Station on October 18, 2015. (screen capture: Channel 2)
March 21, 2018, 5:21 pm
Man gets community service over lynching of migrant mistaken for terrorist
David Muial found guilty of involvement in the brutal beating of Haftom Zarhum, who was killed in the aftermath of a 2015 terror attack at Beersheba bus station
By Raoul Wootliff
Illustrative photo of Israeli police cars (Moti Karelitz/Flash90)
June 19, 2016, 2:37 am
Eritrean national, 20, stabbed in Ashdod
Victim taken in serious condition to city’s Barzilai hospital; no indications incident was a terror attack
By ToI Staff
Security camera footage showing an Eritrean man being shot in the Beersheba central bus station on October 18, 2015, after he was thought to be a terrorist. (screen capture: Channel 2)
June 16, 2016, 4:49 pm
Family of Eritrean man killed by inflamed mob sues for millions
Relatives of Haftom Zarhum claim police and security guards’ negligence led to his death in wake of Beersheba terror attack
By Stuart Winer
Israeli security forces at the scene of a terror attack at the Beersheba central bus station in the southern city, October 18, 2015. (Meir Even Haim/Flash90)
February 12, 2016, 1:19 pm
Man arrested in Beersheba over suspicions of planning attack
Arab suspect reportedly unarmed, taken in for questioning, after report of suspicious person at bus station
By ToI Staff
Haftom Zarhum, 29, died of his wounds on October 19, 2015, a few hours after he was shot and beaten by a mob that mistook him for an assailant in the terror attack in Beersheba on October 18, 2015. (Courtesy)
January 12, 2016, 6:02 pm
4 indicted in beating of asylum seeker after terror attack
Men accused of causing injury with grave intent to Haftom Zarhum, who was killed after he was mistaken for a terrorist in Beersheba
By Stuart Winer
Matthew Lesko, AKA the free government money guy, who has no relation to this article, but his jacket is pretty apropo. (CC BY-SA, Nakeva Corothers, Flickr)
December 16, 2015, 1:45 pm
The five Ws: Who, who, who, who and who
Like an owl with verbal diarrhea, the Israeli press asks the same question again and again as it tackles several disparate stories
By Joshua Davidovich
Israeli security forces stand south of the West Bank city of Hebron, on November 13, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 13, 2015, 12:43 am
Jewish teens stone car, injure Jewish toddler, were aiming for Palestinians
Two minors from Kiryat Arba settlement arrested; 4-year-old lightly hurt
By ToI Staff
Haftom Zarhum, 29, died of his wounds on October 19, 2015, a few hours after he was shot and beaten by a mob that mistook him for an assailant in the terror attack in Beersheba on October 18, 2015. (Courtesy)
November 12, 2015, 8:42 pm
5 summoned for pre-indictment hearing over attack on Eritrean
2 prison guards, soldier, two others suspected of beating Haftom Zarhum after mistaking him for terrorist in Beersheba bus station attack
By Tamar Pileggi
Investigators at the scene of a stabbing attack in Rishon Lezion on November 2, 2015. (Photo by Avi Dishi/Flash90)
November 3, 2015, 4:28 pm
Senior cop slams vigilantism following beatings of attackers
Commander says police having harder time dealing with angry mobs than actual stabbers
By Raoul Wootliff
Illustrative photo of an Israel police car (Flash90)
November 2, 2015, 8:04 pm
Cops ward off two lynching attempts after Netanya stabbing
Israeli arrested as he tries to attack wounded terrorist; mob sees him under arrest, assumes he’s the terrorist and tries to attack him
By ToI Staff
The crowd at the 20th anniversary rally marking Rabin‘s assassination on October 31, 2015, was overwhelmingly young, secular, and left-wing. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 1, 2015, 12:51 am
Twenty years on, an unfulfilled plea for peace
Participants at memorial rally for Yitzhak Rabin say Israeli society has grown more divided, and more extreme, since he was assassinated
By Melanie Lidman
A woman mourns at a memorial in south Tel Aviv on October 21, 2015 for Haftom Zarhum, an Eritrean man who was mistaken for a terrorist. Zarhum was shot and then beaten by an angry mob. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
October 28, 2015, 7:54 pm
Weinstein recommends compensation for family of lynch victim
Attorney general says state should offer terror victim benefits to Haftom Zarhum’s relatives, despite formal ineligibility
By Raoul Wootliff
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