My wife and I have lived in Petach Tikva ever since we made Aliyah to Israel more than ten years ago.  Our location in the Kfar Ganim Gimmel neighborhood has excellently suited our needs.  Unfortunately, a senseless murder occurred here the evening of Yom HaAtzmaut; Yemanu Binyamin Zelka was stabbed to death by a gang of unruly youths as he departed from his workplace at the local Pizza Hut establishment.

By all accounts, Yemanu was an upstanding member of society, an IDF veteran who sought to support his family.  Much of the crime particulars remain under a gag order embargo as this is being written, but some suspects who have already been arrested are said to have criminal records.  The parents of one or more of the gang members are said to also be persons of interest in the police investigation.

Viewing the photographs in the news stories, I realized that I had seen Yemanu Zelka in the Pizza Hut store when I was there a few weeks ago.  The vicious killing, which occurred approximately 300 meters from our apartment building, is........

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