Times of Israel
Police arrested a 76-year-old Bat Yam man Sunday, for allegedly trying to kill his wife with a hammer after she interrupted him while watching a tennis match.
According to the report, the woman, 69, was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The man was arrested by police and taken in for questioning, according to Channel 10 News.
Neighbors in the working-class town south of Tel Aviv said they were shocked with the brutality of the crime, carried out in broad daylight.
“I saw him take a hammer and beat her with it on the balcony in front of everyone,” said a neighbor who managed to break into the apartment and stop the assault.
“Everyone outside was shouting ‘He’s killed her,’” he told Army Radio. “After we broke the door down, we went inside and we saw him give her two more blows with the hammer.”
According to the report, the man began beating his wife after she interrupted him while he was watching a tennis match on television.
By the time they got inside, the living room was splattered with blood, he said.
Other neighbors said they heard heard the couple fighting once or twice, but never suspected any violence or abuse.
“If this kind of thing can happen in this family — an elderly couple who can barely carry their groceries home from the store — it can happen to anyone,” another neighbor told the radio station.
“I’m just so shocked that this happened. He was hitting her again and again with so much force,” the neighbor said.
… and now he’s asking the court for leniency since he is a widower…
He lost control a little, true, but what can be more brutal and inconsiderate, more uncivilized than interrupting someone’s calm and quiet enjoyment viewing such an elegant sport as tennis?
Yes, good point…
Also, Russ, there is no doubt in my mind that he has some relative who perished in the Holocaust or, much worse, survived to tell the tale. He is most likely a man who suffered much narrative trauma.
Did you know Anne Frank used a ball point pen in her diaries 6 years before it was produced? What a girl. I’m not questioning anything of course.
Yes, Russ, I knew that. I am given to understand that she had developed a prototype but didn’t get to market it so she just used it herself. Her father who — we are told now — actually co-authored the diary with her and must have seen her using it, never mentioned it later in any of the many interviews he gave. I put it down to typical jewish modesty: always self-effacing, hating to appear to be boasting.
LOL you’re good… Poor old Pops Frank lost a breach of contract case in NY courts for $50K in payment of a ghost writer in the “editing” of Ann’s diary. Yeah he may have embellished it a tad.
BTW, I didn’t know Ann Frank had developed the ball point. You gotta love that fabulous modesty of Pops. Me, if she had of been my daughter, I would have made sure the world knew she developed the bp pen.
LOL. You two could have a comedy routine on this subject. A different skit every week. Perhaps Saturday Night Live one day. Next weeks subject – soap and shrunken heads.
Peter, no lamp shades? call us dumb and dumber… since ariadnatheo is more accomplished than I, I defer the title dumber to….
Pardon me, Russ, you may have learned a few Jewish tricks but I don’t fall for your clever ploy. You claim we should call ourselves “Dumb and Dumber,” a duo of which I am “Dumber” because I am more accomplished but in reality what you want is top billing! “Dumb” in large font size and “Dumber” underneath, in smaller type and clearly a mere sidekick.
No way! Let us be equals: Dumber and Dumber” but I want an asterisk after the first “Dumber” with a footnote specifying that’s me. Take it or leave it.
I was deferring to your great accomplishments, but if you are too modest to accept higher billing, how about Dumb and Dumberer? That seems to give equal status no matter which place one gets. I am all about fair and balanced unless there is money involved… guess where I learned that…
How can anyone doubt our dear anne? after all it was she who invented and made the first ball point pen ( her diary proves it) and sneaked it into austwich but that hungarian nazi biro pinched it while on a day trip to see his first holiday camp.