Woman Found Dead in Ashdod Home, Husband Seriously Hurt as Police Probe Suspected Murder

A 60-year-old woman was found dead on Sunday morning in her home on King Jehoshaphat Street in Ashdod, in what police are treating as a suspected murder. Rescue teams said she was found unconscious, without a pulse or breathing, with a head injury and signs of violence, and paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene.

Her husband, about 65, was evacuated in serious and unstable condition to Assuta Medical Center in the city. He was conscious and had cuts on his limbs, according to the rescuers.

The emergency responders, including paramedic Orel Asulin and medics Chaim Gelbstein and Anatoly Dikshtein from Hatzalah South, said they were dispatched after a report of a violent incident. They described finding the woman lying in the apartment with severe injuries and said MDA paramedics were forced to declare her dead at the scene.

Police said they opened an investigation into the circumstances of the woman’s death after she was found in the apartment with signs of violence. Officers from the Ashdod station and forensic investigators searched the scene, collected evidence, and arrested the suspect in the case, the victim’s husband.