Two teen-aged youths - Arabs from Lod - have confessed to the murder of their employer in the agricultural farming community of Zeitan, near Ben Gurion International Airport.
The body of Tzion Cohen, 59, was found on Friday close to his home. Two of his former workers, aged 14 and 16, told the police that they last saw Cohen - father of four sons - get into a car with someone he knew on Thursday afternoon. He was not seen again, and after his body was found the next day, several clues led the police to arrest the two boys - and they in fact confessed to having killed him.
Arutz-7's Yosef Meiri spoke with people in the 130-family Moshav Zeitan, and learned that Cohen, and others on the moshav, employed Israeli-Arabs. Another resident agreed that "everyone is saying" that Arabs were the murderers, but that the investigation is being carried out in a clandestine manner. This detail of the "Arab connection" was not provided in many of the original media reports, and in fact readers' responses on the Ynet internet site bemoaned the lack of "education" and "values" among today's youth - without touching upon the obvious problems of an increasingly violent and sizeable Arab minority.
The crime is currently not defined as a terrorist crime, but rather as based on a "monetary dispute."
The body of Tzion Cohen, 59, was found on Friday close to his home. Two of his former workers, aged 14 and 16, told the police that they last saw Cohen - father of four sons - get into a car with someone he knew on Thursday afternoon. He was not seen again, and after his body was found the next day, several clues led the police to arrest the two boys - and they in fact confessed to having killed him.
Arutz-7's Yosef Meiri spoke with people in the 130-family Moshav Zeitan, and learned that Cohen, and others on the moshav, employed Israeli-Arabs. Another resident agreed that "everyone is saying" that Arabs were the murderers, but that the investigation is being carried out in a clandestine manner. This detail of the "Arab connection" was not provided in many of the original media reports, and in fact readers' responses on the Ynet internet site bemoaned the lack of "education" and "values" among today's youth - without touching upon the obvious problems of an increasingly violent and sizeable Arab minority.
The crime is currently not defined as a terrorist crime, but rather as based on a "monetary dispute."