'It was a terrible sight'

Woman found decapitated in Tiberias and set on fire while ex-husband found wandering streets carrying her head and covered in blood.

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‘The priest is to place his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it…Then the priest is to take some of the blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar…They shall remove all the fat and the priest shall then burn the victim on the altar as an aroma pleasing to the Lord, and in this way will make atonement for the people of Israel, and their sins will be forgiven…’ –Leviticus 4:29

Israel National News

Police made a grisly discovery on Wednesday in the northern town of Tiberias near the Sea of Galilee.

A woman in her 30s was found decapitated in the northern town shortly after a fire was reported in her apartment.

Police say a man covered in blood was arrested near the scene. Authorities have identified the suspect as the victim’s ex-husband.

Witnesses say the suspect carried the victim’s severed head down the street, yelling that he had “killed Amalek”, before throwing the head away in a garbage can.

“People saw him wandering around holding his wife’s head while trying to light her hair on fire,” said Naftali Terblasi, a writer for Radio Kol Rega. “They asked him what happened, and he said that he murdered his wife.”

The suspect then reportedly returned to his ex-wife’s home and proceeded to set the apartment on fire.

“It was a terrible sight,” said MDA paramedic Taleb Abdallah. “We found a woman in her 30s and were forced to pronounce her dead at the scene.”

A firefighting unit was dispatched to the scene to put out the blaze and evacuate residents endangered by the fire.

Neighbors say the suspect has a history of mental illness.