Or Akiva man arrested for allegedly beating Holocaust survivor, 85
Police suspect Avi Stridovsky assaulted his neighbor because of a dispute over watering building's common garden.
By Fadi Eyadat Tags: Holocaust survivorsPolice on Sunday arrested a 30-year-old Or Akiva resident on suspicion of having assaulted an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor in the town last Thursday.
Police suspect that Avi Strikovsky assaulted Ogen Radar, his neighbor, because of a dispute over watering their apartment building's common garden. He will be brought to court for a hearing this morning, and police intend to ask that he be remanded until the end of his trial.
The assault took place at about 2 P.M. last Thursday, during the holiday of Simhat Torah, as Radar was coming home from synagogue. According to Radar's son, David Radar, Strikovsky was lying in wait for him near his home. "He beat him all over his body, then went away and left him there, bleeding," David Radar said. He added that Strikovsky apparently used a sharp instrument, as his father suffered a deep cut on his forehead.
Radar managed to drag himself home and press the panic button he had installed, which summoned both his son and the police. They took him to the hospital for treatment.
"This was an attempted murder," David Radar said. "My father has a heart problem, and a single punch could cause him to collapse."
This is the second time in a few weeks that Strikovsky has attacked Radar, but after the first incident, the court released Strikovsky on bail.
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to seize any and every opportunity to attack her "so-called Israel" which, of course, is not the real Israel, but some fanciful configuration of her diseased, hate-filled mind.
Hannah, due to our ingathering-of-the-exiles, an archaic but a valid term, some Israelis do not easily weather the culture-shock, and that accounts for much of the family and interpersonal violence here. Out of ignorance you politicize eveything.
Population of Israel is nearly double than Norway. Comparing to most of the socalled peaceful countries domestic violence is far less in Israel. This is really commendable, considering the fact that Israel accept lot of immigrants with different background from around the world and forced to live under terrorism & existential threat.
lets hope this thug gets the punishment he deserves and is given a prison sentance. There are no words to describe this common thug. My heart goes out to the victim of this horrific crime and his family.
Yes, this is absolutely outrageous, but the headline is misleading. Are we to understand that Strikovsky is an antisemite or a Holocaust denier? Or that Radar's personal history concerns him at all? I doubt that Radar's early experience is significant in watering the common garden. The woman from Holon or Bat Yam, court stenographer and single mother, who was murdered by a young man in the entrance of her apartment house a few months ago was not a Holocaust survivor. The common factor and the real problem is homicidal crazies.
Hannah, if you or anyone else thinks Norway is peaceful without violence, I suggest you go to the following websites. Stop writing you anti- semitic nonsense! http://kilden.forskningsradet.no/c17224/side/vis.html?tid=38592 http://www.magasinet-monitor.net/english/2jan01.htm http://www.alli.fi/nuorisotutkimus/julkaisut/virtanen/3/6.html
I am Norwegan and unfortunately you are wrong. Plenty of violence.
time is responsible!!!
Almost every day there is an article in Ha'aretz testifying to the fact that when a state behaves brutally, that brutality affects the individual. So-called Israel murders Palestinian children on a daily basis: their citizens murder their wives on a weekly basis. So-called Israel tortures and beats Palestinian prisoners; their citizens beat up the elderly. There is the cause-and-effect principle at work here. Lest any of you zionist cheerleaders say that there is violence in every country, I ask you to compare violence in the zionist entity with a peaceful country of approximately the same population; Norway, for example.