Following the tragic and shocking incident on Shabbos in Modiin Illit, when a resident of the Brachfeld neighborhood stabbed his wife and attempted suicide by jumping from his porch, neighbors of the couple expressed their shock to Kikar H’Shabbos.
“Contrary to the rumors, from my impression, he seemed like a completely normal person,” one neighbor said about the suspected murderer.
“When I heard what he did, I was completely shocked. I spoke with his friends from shul and they also said that it seemed totally out of character for the pleasant man they knew.”
All the neighbors are shocked that such an incident occurred in a Chareidi city, finding it difficult to accept the travesty that occurred in their neighborhood. Others are disturbed that their children witnessed the incident.
“My children were playing downstairs, close to the street,” one neighbor said. “Suddenly they heard a long bang. When they turned their heads, they saw a man falling from a great height.”
“Parents with children who witnessed the incident must bring them for treatment,” another neighbor stressed. “Otherwise they will have a difficult time recovering emotionally from the incident.”
The condition of the husband has improved considerably. The wife’s condition has stabilized somewhat after doctors struggled to save her life.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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The word ATTEMPTED is missing from the headline
There is enough sensation
Can someone get the wife’s tehillim name?
Shouldn’t the title say, “Attempted murder-suicide”?
There is no such thing as a completely normal person who tries to murder his wife and then jump off a porch.
What is so sad is that no one noticed that he was in such deep anguish, until he took desperate measures with tragic consequences.
One of Bayit Cham’s mental health clinics is in Modiin Illit with excellent psychiatric and therapeutic services (for people who don’t live in Israel, Bayit Cham is the leading mental health organization in Israel with a special focus on the frum community). If neighbors and shul people had noticed that something was amiss with this man, that he looked depressed, withdrawn, etc. and reached out to encourage him to go for professional help that is locally available, the story could have been different.
If you see someone who looks like he’s in respiratory distress or has chest pains, wouldn’t you call Hatzala? What about emotional distress? I know it’s different because you can’t help someone if they refuse to be helped, and even if people suspected that something’s wrong, they probably could not have realized how dangerous he was to himself and others. What bothers me here is that everyone says that he was completely normal i.e. they were totally tuned out to seeing his real state.
Not Murder-Suicide as your headline says, but ATTEMPTED Murder-Suicide.
Contrary to the headline, this was _attempted_ murder and _attempted_ suicide. It’s so sad that a site catering to the Yeshiva World would sensationalize such a tragedy by a dishonest headline – as if the actual tragic facts were not sensational enough for Bnai Torah, r”l.
sometimes those who are very quiet and don’t express their opinions to others, have deep problems….
Shame no one picked up on him….
murder suicide or both are recovering??????
So if both individuals survived, who was murdered exactly?