Three Haifa men were convicted Wednesday morning of kidnapping and murdering a Kiryat Ata man in January 2005 in order to rob the grocery store where he worked.

The three men kidnapped Isaschar Itzkovitz, took the keys to the grocery store he managed, and later beat him to death.

The Haifa District Court convicted Yroslav Byorsky, 29, Anton Oliyinkov, 36, and Jan Chekov, 28, of planning to kidnap and rob Itzkovitz. A fourth defendant was cleared of murder, but convicted of attempted robbery and kidnapping.