Khaberni - In the settlement of Carmiel, which was built on the lands of the Sha'ghour villages (Majd al-Krum, Ba'ana, Deir al-Assad) in Upper Galilee in northern occupied Palestine, an Israeli woman and her husband buried the woman's mother in their home garden, after concealing from the authorities that she was dead. The woman who died at the age of 93, a Holocaust survivor, according to the newspaper Yisrael Hayom in a report published today, Monday. The reason they did so was to maintain the compensation given to her, totaling 18,000 shekels per month (about five thousand US dollars), effective in order to benefit from it.
The threads of the case began unraveling about a month ago when another daughter of the deceased woman, residing in the settlement of Bat Yam inside Palestinian territory, went to a police station and reported that she was informed of her mother’s death. The latter had been living with her in her house, before they had a dispute and consequently, the mother moved to live with her second daughter in Carmiel and cut off her relationship with the first one, about two years ago.
In the report submitted by the mentioned daughter, whose identity the Israeli newspaper did not reveal, to the police, she mentioned that she had been keeping track of her mother’s news from a distance until she was informed of her death. The daughter then began tracking records to discover that her mother was still "alive" according to the records; she then decided to go to the police.
After that, members of the Israeli police went to the home of the first daughter and her husband in Carmiel to verify the matter. After knocking on the door of the house, which is actually a villa, several times without response, they decided to break in the door. They found the woman and her husband inside, the newspaper reported citing one of the policemen.
The policeman talked about a "house of horror," noting that "the villa was full of cobwebs and the windows were tightly sealed with tapes." Immediately, the police began investigating the woman and her husband, who provided conflicting information about the location of the latter's mother, which raised suspicions. They were then referred to the special investigation unit for crimes in the Galilee area.
While the daughter of the deceased woman, aged 64, stuttered during the investigations and provided conflicting stories, her husband initially indicated that his mother-in-law was buried in Haifa, before changing his statement and later pointing out that she was buried in a settlement near the northern border with Lebanon. He then changed his statement again, claiming that his mother-in-law died in April 2024 and he buried her in a location he was not ready to disclose to the investigators.
After all that, the special unit detectives, led by Major Alon Reuveni, suspected that the woman was buried in the villa's garden in Carmiel where her daughter and her husband live. However, after extensive digging in the garden, with the presence of tracking dogs, they did not find her there. The investigations continued, revealing that the deceased woman's body was kept for two days in an ice cream refrigerator at her daughter's house, before being buried in the garden.
Just as the investigators were losing hope of finding the body, a development in the case occurred with the testimony of one of the workers who frequented the villa, who pointed out a deep hole in the garden, prompting a small excavation machine to be brought to the site. About two weeks ago, the body of the deceased woman was found three meters under the ground.
According to the police estimates, as reported by the Israeli newspaper, the ninety-year-old woman was not killed, but they are still awaiting the autopsy results from the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Abu Kabir to determine the results. According to the investigations, the burial of the woman was intended to defraud the authorities, which were paying her a large monthly compensation as a Holocaust survivor. Her daughter and her husband were benefiting from her compensation to make monthly payments for the villa, using checks from the deceased's bank account. It is expected that an indictment will be filed against the daughter including crimes related to obtaining money by deception, obstructing justice, failing to report, and breaching a legal duty.
Israeli buries her mother to benefit from Holocaust compensations pic.twitter.com/TloIwoyzoS
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