The Jerusalem Police increasingly attribute the murder of the two Israelis found stabbed to death last Thursday in a wood close to Moshav Even Sapir to a terror attack.
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The two victims - David Shambik, 27, and Moran Menachem, 17 - were found with Shambik's car near Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem. Shambik, a resident of Jerusalem who worked as a security guard in the capital, was reported missing by his family on Thursday morning.
"When I woke up in the morning, my father told me that Dudu hadn't returned home during the night," the victim's brother, Yaakov, said. "I went to work. I couldn't imagine that something bad had happened to him. At around eight in the morning, I called Dad at work and he decided to go the police."
Yaakov also called his brother's friends, who mounted a search. An hour later, they found his car in the wood. The friends, who were afraid to approach the car, called police.
The officers who arrived on the scene found the two victims said they apparently had been brutally beaten and stabbed to death. Shambik's body was found next to the car, while Menachem's body was found in the vehicle itself.
The commander of the Jerusalem District Police, Major General Mickey Levy, said Shambik, who had worked as a security guard at the Kfar Shaul psychiatric hospital in the capital, had not been carrying his personal weapon at the time of the incident.
The police's first suspicions were that the murder had been criminally motivated, but there was no evidence at the scene to support this theory.
According to the initial inquiries, after completing his shift at work, Shambik went home for a short while and then went to pick up Menachem. The two drove out of the city and stopped on the path linking Moshav Even Sapir and the Hadassah Hospital parking lot. It appears they were attacked some time around midnight.
Levy called the murder "harsh and cruel." The two were beaten and stoned and then their bodies were ripped to shreds by means of knives and other sharp implements
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