Woman stabbed to death in Herzliya; husband arrested

Police dispatched to scene after passerby reports looking through a window and seeing a woman lying on floor and walls sprayed with blood

A 68-year-old woman was stabbed to death in her apartment on Hakeren Street in Herzliya on Monday, with police arresting her 70-year-old husband on suspicion on murder.

Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene.

Police were dispatched to the scene after a passerby reported seeing, through an apartment window, a woman lying on the floor with bloodstains on the surrounding walls.

Activists have long complained that not enough is done to prevent domestic violence.

In September, the body of a woman was found covered in stab wounds in a Rehovot apartment that had been set on fire. The victim’s husband was found unconscious alongside her in their burning apartment bedroom after what appeared to have been a suicide attempt.

A study by the Hebrew University-based Israel Observatory on Femicide examining the first half of 2022 found a 71 percent increase in femicide relative to the same period last year — 12 deaths compared to seven.

In July, Prime Minister Yair Lapid addressed the scourge of violence against women, saying it was “a stain on the country and it cannot continue.”