A 19-year-old was stabbed to death during an argument Saturday evening in an apartment in Jerusalem’s Nachlaot neighborhood, Israel Police and medics said.
By Sunday morning, police said they had arrested six suspects in the case.
MDA medics said they found the victim with no vital signs and multiple stab wounds. They rushed him to the capital’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center, where he died of his wounds.
The victim was later identified in Hebrew media reports as Binyahu Razzi from the Jerusalem suburb of Giv’at Ze’ev.
Police said they opened an investigation into the incident as a case of criminal violence rather than terrorism, and set up roadblocks to locate the suspected perpetrators.
Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition
by email and never miss our top stories
By signing up, you agree to the terms
Following their subsequent arrest, the suspects were to be brought for a remand hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court later Sunday, police said.
הרצח בירושלים: בניהו רזי, בן 19 מגבעת זאב, הוא הנרצח אתמול בשכונת נחלאות בעיר
שימוש לפי סעיף 27א’ לחוק זכויות יוצרים@HGoldich https://t.co/2tGkMLt6By pic.twitter.com/Q6f4OZzTpX
— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) July 12, 2026
Eyewitnesses told the Ynet outlet that the stabbing happened on Shirizli Street in an Airbnb apartment.
A group of young men had rented the apartment for the weekend.
The identities of the victim and the suspects was not immediately clear.
“I contacted the police several times,” a neighbor told Ynet.
“On Thursday, I told them that there were drugs, prostitution and a mess in the apartment,” the neighbor said, adding that police told them they could not do anything about it, despite several warnings of criminal activity.
“The writing was on the wall, and they did nothing about it,” he said.
He said the neighborhood has been abandoned by law enforcement to drugs and prostitution. “It is shocking what is going on here.”
Medics at the scene of a shooting in Jaffa, July 11, 2026. (Magen David Adom)
Earlier Saturday, a man was shot and critically wounded on Jerusalem Boulevard, in Jaffa, in broad daylight. Police opened an investigation into the incident and ruled out terrorism as a motive.
Meanwhile, in Haifa, two men in their 30s were stabbed and seriously injured. The pair, residents of the Bedouin town of Basmat Tab’un, were taken to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa.
Police said three suspects were arrested, two of them residents of Basmat Tab’un, and another from the Arab town of Jadida-Makr in the Western Galilee region.
According to a tally from the Haaretz newspaper, there have been 180 homicides in the country since the beginning of the year, of which 150 were in the Arab Israeli community.
We can’t do this work alone.
The war with Iran has been draining for all of us in Israel. But when I heard about a high casualty incident – ballistic missile impacts in Arad and Dimona that left nearly 200 people wounded – I drank a cup of coffee, packed a bag, and headed south.
There, I spoke with Shilgit, the head of an after-school program for underprivileged youth. Standing outside her destroyed center, Shilgit said it was a miracle that no children were hurt and spoke about the community coming together in the hours since.
As a Times of Israel reporter, I’m committed to telling stories of resilience like Shilgit’s. But my colleagues and I can’t do this alone. If you value work like this, please consider joining our reader support group, The Times of Israel Community. Your financial support is essential to keep real human reporting like this going.
— Stav Levaton, military reporter
Already a member? Sign in to stop seeing this
You’re a dedicated reader
That’s why we started the Times of Israel – to provide discerning readers like you with must-read coverage of Israel and the Jewish world.
So now we have a request. Unlike other news outlets, we haven’t put up a paywall. But as the journalism we do is costly, we invite readers for whom The Times of Israel has become important to help support our work by joining The Times of Israel Community.
For as little as $6 a month you can help support our quality journalism while enjoying The Times of Israel AD-FREE, as well as accessing exclusive content available only to Times of Israel Community members.
Thank you,
David Horovitz, Founding Editor of The Times of Israel