Attorney Arnon Ephraim, 71, was stabbed to death in front of his wife in the Haifa suburb of Nesher, Wednesday morning.
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A senior police official told Israel Hayom the investigation into Ephraim's murder would focus at this stage on evidence and intelligence. "This is an individual with no criminal record. A civil lawyer that did not work in the criminal litigation field," the official said.
Senior Magen David Adom medic Leonid Liansky said, "When we arrived at the scene, we saw the victim lying unconscious, without a pulse, not breathing and suffering from deep wounds and bleeding. We performed medical examinations and gave him medical treatment, but the injuries were serious and there was no other choice but to determine his death."
"He was a smart man. I don't care who did this, it won't bring him back. I don't have my husband. I told them to take his organs for donation," Ruth Ephraim, whose husband Arnon was stabbed to death by a masked assailant in his Nesher apartment, Wednesday, said.
"They stabbed him obsessively. I didn't understand what was happening. I was sure they were robbers. I didn't exactly fight, I tried to prevent them from stabbing him with my hand, and at the same time I screamed for my daughter and her husband who live nearby to come. It was all over in 20 seconds, and the suspects got away," she said.
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