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Policeman falls to his death in rooftop chase for burglars in Rishon Letzion By Roni Singer-Heruti A policeman was killed when he fell from the roof of a building in Rishon Letzion while searching for burglars yesterday. Sergeant Major Miki Zuk, 29, went to the seven-story building on Pinsker Street after a woman called and said she suspected burglars had entered her apartment. Advertisement She said that she had returned from work and tried to turn her key in the lock but it wouldn't turn. Zuk and another policeman came and combed the building in search of burglars. They decided to try to enter the apartment from the roof. Zuk climbed onto the roof's glass ceiling. The glass broke beneath him, and he fell into the stairwell shaft. The woman who had called the police and her husband, who had joined her, said they saw the policeman fall to his death. The woman told Haaretz that she was very upset by the incident and asked not to be interviewed. A man living on the building's third floor said he heard "terrible screams" from the neighbors, and when he came out, he saw the injured policeman. "I tried to calm his partner down, he was very agitated. I also wanted to help the injured policeman but he did not respond," the man said. Policemen who arrived at the scene said that Zuk was apparently hurt more from the railing he fell on than from the fall itself. Magen David Adom paramedics declared Zuk's death at the scene. Many policemen came to the building, and some of them burst into tears and hugged each other. "This is a very serious event in which a policeman was killed in the line of duty," said Central District Commander Nissim Mor. It is not clear whether burglars had entered the building. Chief Inspector Yaniv Alkoret, Zuk's shift commander, said he and his men would do all they could to find the burglars. "We won't let it go, if only to say that he did not die in vain," he said. "Miki was a man who always laughed and always had a smile on his face. At the same time, he was a man of work. He was one of our more successful policemen," Alkoret said. "He was satisfied with what he had, laughed at life but was serious, and most importantly, he was not afraid. Only yesterday morning at the beginning of the shift, we were still sitting and laughing. There are were sinister jokes about the dangers in this line of work, but we tried to think that nothing would happen to us," he said. Zuk's colleagues gathered yesterday to mourn for him. "We are like family here, for us it's like losing a brother," said Alkoret, whose men notified Zuk's wife, who is seven months pregnant, of his death. The police appointed an officer to investigate the circumstances of Zuk's death. Zuk's funeral will be held at 3 P.M. today in the Haifa cemetery. Last January, policeman Shlomi Assoulin, of the same sub-district, was badly injured after a car thief he was chasing stabbed him in the neck with a screw driver. Assoulin is still hospitalized and has not regained consciousness. Bookmark to del.icio.us   A few good celebs Some of Hollywood's top guns congratulate Israel in a clip played in Times Square. Chosen, shmosen 'Religion is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions,' wrote Albert Einstein.

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