Two Children Stabbed by Mentally Unstable Neighbor in Beit Shemesh

Two children were stabbed today in Beit Shemesh by a mentally unstable neighbor who broke into their home. One of the children was left unconscious. Earlier this month, 19-year-old Benyahu Razi from Givat Ze'ev was murdered in an Airbnb apartment in Jerusalem's Nahalat neighborhood, alongside his close friend Matanya, who was also attacked while trying to save Razi's life.

In his first interview since the murder, aired on Kan News, Matanya described the traumatic events leading up to the killing and the emotional toll it has taken on him. He expressed the pain of losing someone so close, saying, "He was more than a brother to me," and recounted the helplessness he felt as Razi's condition worsened.

According to the indictment, Razi's 19-year-old girlfriend Agam Tzarfati and her friend Shilat Huta, also 19, left the apartment claiming Razi and Matanya had been violent toward them. They then went to Linor Sasson, the mother of the main suspect in the murder, Aviaor Sasson, and four other minors, telling them what had happened. The group declared their intent to "finish him off" and armed themselves with various weapons including knives, a folding baton, a spike, razors, and an iron hammer.

Later, the group returned to Nahalat with Huta and asked Razi and Matanya to come upstairs for a reconciliation meeting. Matanya said he had a bad feeling but did not expect it to end in murder. "They spoke very nicely, as if they wanted to make peace, but they came to kill him," he said. "I really had a bad feeling about the situation. I didn’t think it would end like this, but that’s what happened."