Overview
- A man attacked Rabbi Amos Guetta inside his beis medrash in Netanya and he was later pronounced dead at Laniado Hospital after being evacuated in critical condition.
- Police opened a criminal investigation, carried out forensic work at the scene and launched a manhunt that led to the detention of a male suspect in his 20s.
- Officials and reports say the suspect allegedly demanded to daven with the rabbi, an argument followed, and the suspect then stabbed him multiple times before fleeing.
- Magen David Adom first responders treated the wounded rabbi at the yeshiva and evacuated him by intensive care ambulance to the hospital.
- Rabbi Guetta was a well-known mekubal who founded a yeshiva and drew many students, and the killing has drawn public shock and prompted questions about security for religious leaders following a similar 2011 murder.