Octogenarian kills octogenarian in Haifa accident An 82-year-old woman struck two pedestrians with her vehicle in Haifa on Wednesday, killing an 82- year-old man and seriously injuring a woman in her 40s. The two were taken to Rambam Medical Center in the city, where the man later died of his wounds.Police believed the woman may have been driving against traffic at the time of the accident. She swerved off the road into a wall after hitting the pedestrians, suffering slight injuries in the process.Police detained the woman for questioning.Divers find woman’s body in Kinneret A woman’s body was found by police divers in Lake Kinneret last week. The divers had been searching for a 25-year-old Safed woman who was last seen in the area several days earlier. Police believed the body found was that of the missing woman but were yet to confirm their suspicions. Tiberias police were investigating the circumstances of the woman’s death.Earlier in the week, the body of a five-year-old boy from Elad who drowned in the Kinneret was found near the northern entrance to Tiberias. A Magen David Adom team that arrived at the scene pronounced the boy dead.CENTER Jewelry store owner wounded during robbery A jewelry store owner was lightly wounded Sunday by armed robbers who held up his shop on Allenby Road in Tel Aviv. According to police, two men entered the store with loaded rifles and fired rounds into the air before stealing jewelry and fleeing the scene. The shopkeeper was rushed to Ichilov Medical Center in Tel Aviv.Tel Aviv advances affordable housing projects The Tel Aviv Municipality this week announced several projects in various phases of development intended to add dozens of affordable housing units in the city. In the southern Shapira neighborhood, land for apartment buildings was being auctioned, with half of the 44 units being designated as affordable housing.In addition, the municipality announced four other projects in their final stages of approval. One project in Yad Eliyahu is planned to add 38 affordable housing units. Another project on Jaffa’s Michelangelo Street will provide 16 affordable housing units to the Arab population. A project in the Shuk Aliya area was expected to include 50 affordable housing units.Another Yad Eliyahu development designates 100 of 300 units as affordable housing.Tel Aviv-Jaffa Mayor Ron Huldai said of the projects, “I am happy that the city of Tel Aviv-Jaffa will be ahead of the pack [and] a pioneer in advancing planning and encourage affordable housing in a fundamental and meaningful way.” He added, “This is a step that is designed to [help] Tel Aviv’s middle-class residents, whom we see as an important element in the population of and the existence of Tel Aviv-Jaffa.”Bride runs over man on way home from wedding On her way home from her wedding, a bride struck and killed a 62-year-old Tel Aviv man over the weekend. Shortly before 3 a.m. Saturday morning, the bride and groom were driving on Route 4 near the Morasha Junction.Another man, also returning from a wedding, had run out of gas and crossed the highway to bring gasoline when he was struck by the car driven by the bride.The woman’s driver’s license was confiscated by police, and she was investigated for driving under the influence of alcohol.22 injured when tractor hits Netanya bus A tractor hit a bus on a busy street in Netanya on Sunday, lightly injuring 22 people. Magen David Adom paramedics treated the injured at the scene before transferring them to Laniado Medical Center in Netanya and Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba.Man arrested for cutting neighbor’s power A 65-year-old Kfar Saba man was arrested last week for cutting his neighbor’s electricity supply and threatening his wife. Late Thursday, the couple was sitting in their apartment when the electricity went out, so the husband stepped outside to check the fuse box. When he saw his neighbor standing at the fuse box with cable cutters, he called the police.The suspect admitted to cutting the cables as part of a dispute between the neighbors and expressed remorse for his actions. While speaking with officers, however, the man threatened to harm his neighbor’s wife. The 65-year-old was brought to the Kfar Saba police station for questioning and was subsequently released under restrictive conditions.Guard arrested for robbing bank where he worked Police arrested a bank security guard late last week on suspicion of robbing the Tel Aviv branch of the Bank of Jerusalem where he was employed. The man was arrested at his apartment in Ramat Gan, where police found him in possession of a gun and a large sum of money. The suspect was brought for a remand hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court the same day.SOUTH Rahat boy arrested for stealing school cameras A 16-year-old from Rahat was arrested this week on suspicion that he had stolen surveillance video cameras from the school he attends.Police investigators in Beersheba opened an investigation into the thefts and arrived at the boy’s house, where they found the stolen video cameras. The boy confessed to stealing the cameras and was released from custody under restrictive conditions, NRG reported.
Man nabbed breaking into hotel rooms in Eilat Police in Eilat arrested a former hotel employee on suspicion that he was planning to break into guest rooms by stealing a master key from a hotel manager.The suspect, a 25-year-old Sudanese, was spotted by a hotel employee as the man was trying to enter offices on a floor of the hotel that contains management offices. Asked what he was doing, the suspect said that a manager had given him the keys, which in reality he had stolen from a manager’s officer several days earlier.The employee notified hotel security officers, who in turn summoned police to the scene. Officers suspected that the man was planning to break into guests’ rooms with the stolen master key.Sderot mayor: School year delayed due to budget cuts Sderot Mayor David Buskila on Sunday announced that schools and kindergartens in the city would not begin school on September 1 as scheduled. Buskila said the municipality would not start the school year because of millions of shekels worth of budget cuts.Beersheba man seriously wounded in stabbing A 38-year-old Beersheba man was seriously wounded in a stabbing that took place on the city’s Rav Kook Street this week. A Magen David Adom mobile intensive care unit sent to the scene took the wounded man to Soroka University Medical Center in serious condition. Police opened an investigation into the incident, but no suspects had been arrested at the time of this report, NRG reported.