Police Declare Holon Killing a Terror Attack, Launch Manhunt

By Hamodia Staff

Chief of police Kobi Shabtai (center) at the scene of a suspected terror killing of an 84-year-old woman in Holon, Tuesday night. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

YERUSHALAYIM – Several hours after the brutal murder of an 84-year-old woman in the central Israeli city of Holon, police determined that it was a terrorist attack, and said they had launched a search for the perpetrator.

“It was a suspect whose identity is known to us,” police chief Kobi Shabtai told reporters. “We are currently searching close by and further away to locate him.”

The woman Hy”d was killed with a blunt object to the head on the city’s HaHashmonaim Street opposite a construction site, in broad daylight.

The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, reportedly was involved in the investigation amid growing suspicions that it was not an ordinary criminal act. Nothing was stolen from her.

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