\u201cThis is a shocking and grave act, and the Israel Police will act with determination in order to capture the murderer, determine the circumstances of the incident and prosecute him to the fullest extent, even if this man is mentally ill as it seems,\u201d the far-right minister wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n
Police launched investigations into all three killings. So far, they have only arrested a suspect in the fatal stabbing of Guetta.<\/p>\n
The suspected perpetrator is a man in his 20s who formerly studied under the rabbi, law enforcement said. Officers launched a manhunt and nabbed him in downtown Netanya, after he allegedly fled the scene of the stabbing.<\/p>\n
\t \u201cThe murderer stabbed the rabbi while he was lying helpless in his bed. He lived in a kolel. The stabber screamed and went berserk, pulled out a kitchen knife and stabbed the rabbi in the stomach,\u201d a witness told Channel 12 news, adding that he also tried to stab Guetta\u2019s assistant, who managed to escape.<\/p>\n Police said they were preparing for Guetta\u2019s funeral, expected to draw thousands of mourners Wednesday evening to Netanya.<\/p>\n Bus driver killed, another shot dead near shopping mall<\/p>\n At around the same time as the rabbi\u2019s violent death Wednesday morning, a 24-year-old bus driver was shot and killed in Shfaram.<\/p>\n The victim, Ali Suwaed, was found with bullet wounds in a parking lot in the northern Arab city. Medics pronounced him dead at the scene.<\/p>\n According to Channel 12, the killing was linked to a bloody feud between two families in the area.<\/p>\n The slain bus driver\u2019s Suwaed family<\/a> has for several years been at odds with the Khalidi family. The bitter dispute began between criminals, but has since expanded to affect relatives without known gangland ties.<\/p>\n According to Nas Radio, a Nazareth-based Arabic station, police found a burning vehicle in the city the night before and are investigating whether it was linked to the early-morning shooting.<\/p>\n Half an hour later, another young man was shot and killed in his car in a parking lot near a shopping center in Yagur, south of Haifa.<\/p>\n The 21-year-old victim, who has not yet been identified, was pronounced dead at the scene. According to Arab outlets, he is from Basmat Tab\u2019un, a small Bedouin village in northern Israel.<\/p>\n Channel 12 reported that the man was killed in revenge for Tuesday\u2019s deadly car bombing that killed a senior crime figure in Kiryat Haim, a northern suburb of Haifa.<\/p>\n The slain target of Tuesday\u2019s blast, 50-year-old Rabia Abu Haikal, was a prominent mobster in the powerful Nasser Hariri gang, whose ongoing rivalry with the Nazareth-based Bakri criminal organization has fueled hiking violence in the north.<\/p>\n According to the Abraham Initiatives group, which tracks Arab sector homicides, 147 members of the community have been killed so far this year, after the minority saw its deadliest year on record in 2025, with 252 killed in violent circumstances.<\/p>\n
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