Police detained a 72-year-old Holon man Sunday on suspicion of involvement in the death of his wife, 67. The husband, a retired dentist, was summoned to deliver more extensive testimony than that delivered to police last week.

The woman's body was found Thursday in the couple's apartment in the city.

On Thursday morning, a neighbor called police and told them that the man had knocked on his door and asked him to call police.

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The man told him that shortly beforehand, he had awakened and found himself tied up in bed next to his wife, who was without signs of life.

The husband told police that around 4:00 A.M., a man entered his bedroom. The man tied his hands and those of his wife, he said, and sprayed them with a substance that caused them to faint.

Police questioned the husband for several hours and delivered his wife's body for an autopsy.

Initial police investigations and autopsy findings do not indicate that the victim died violently. Autopsy results reveal that she may have choked and suffered heart failure.

Following the autopsy results, and in light of contradictions in the husband's testimony, Ayalon District investigators decided to detain the man.

Still, police say they are not considering him a murder suspect at the present time.

He will be brought Monday to Rishon Letzion Magistrate's Court for an extension of remand.