Israel Police Southern District Commander David Bitan has ordered an investigation into the conduct of police during the search for Mrs. Esti Weinstein A’H. Mrs. Weinstein was the subject of a major search last week. Unfortunately, her lifeless body was found in her vehicle in Ashdod on 20 Sivan.

It is now reported that police received reports of a “suspicious vehicle” that matched the description of Mrs. Weinstein’s vehicle while the search was ongoing, parked near the Ashdod beach. A cruiser responded but did not find the body.

The probe was ordered to determine if the responding police even bothered to get out of their car to inspect the suspicious vehicle as they should have. Only a day later, following additional calls, did a unit respond and get out and they found the body in the vehicle.

The levaya took place on Tuesday 22 Sivan in the Yarkon Cemetery in Petach Tikvah.

Police add that based on the pathological findings, had the body been detected a day earlier it would not have changed the outcome. Nonetheless police are probing possible negligent behavior by the unit that responded to the first call about the vehicle.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)