{"id":555694,"date":"2026-07-23T12:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/555694\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T12:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:27:08","slug":"police-arrest-two-in-nachlaot-murder-case-release-name-of-prime-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/555694\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest two in Nachlaot murder case, release name of prime suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel Police made two arrests on Wednesday in connection with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-902177\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">murder of 19-year-old Benayahu Razi<\/a>, who was stabbed to death in Jerusalem&#8217;s Nachlaot neighborhood on July 11.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The two suspects were not named; one is a 16-year-old girl, and the other is an 18-year-old boy from the city of Elad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">On Wednesday, police publicized the name of the chief suspect in the case, 17-year-old Jerusalem resident Avior Sasson. Sasson is still at large, and police have issued a request for any tips regarding his whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>Israel Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-902197#google_vignette\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrested six individuals<\/a> over their suspected involvement in Razi&#8217;s murder in the 24 hours immediately following the murder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Razi was stabbed in a fight on July 11. Magen David Adom paramedics were called to the scene and found him unresponsive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">He was initially evacuated to Shaare Zedek Medical Center before being pronounced dead, according to United Hatzalah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel Police made two arrests on Wednesday in connection with the murder of 19-year-old Benayahu Razi, who was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[737,85,46,1158,3794,44331,43,102],"class_list":["post-555694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-crime","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-police","tag-jerusalem","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}