Entertainer Oded Menashe eulogized Rabbi Amos Guata, the Netanya kabbalist stabbed to death this morning, calling his death a 'great loss.' Police continue investigating, with a suspect in custody.
Entertainer Oded Menashe, a student of Rabbi Amos Guata, eulogized his mentor late Wednesday afternoon, calling the murder a 'great loss.' The rabbi, a prominent Netanya kabbalist, was stabbed to death at his kollel on Bar Yochai Street in the Ramat Herzog neighborhood earlier that morning. Police continue to investigate; a suspect remains in custody.
The Zioneer first reported the killing at 07:45 Wednesday, noting a suspected criminal motive. By 09:05, Chief Rabbi Kalman Meir Bar had eulogized the rabbi, calling his death a 'shocking passing.' Imagery of students mourning at the hospital bedside was published at 10:04. At 14:51, the desk reported two parallel threads: initial sources told journalist Haim Cohen the killer may have sought to 'release the rabbi from his suffering' — a possible ideological motive echoing the 2023 murder of Rabbi Elazar Abuchatzeira — while a separate police assessment described the suspect as mentally disturbed. The current update adds the voice of Menashe, another close student, publicly expressing grief.
As The Zioneer reported, Rabbi Guata, 75, was a well-known kabbalist in Netanya. The attack occurred at a synagogue entrance, and police have detained a suspect whose motive remains under investigation.
It remains unclear whether the apparent ideological motive described by associates aligns with the suspect's mental state, and whether the investigation will yield a single conclusive motive.
3 developments
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- DevelopingNetanya city council member, student of slain Rabbi Guetta, eulogizes him as a spiritual father
- DevelopingPolice arrest suspect in stabbing murder of Rabbi Amos Guetta at Netanya yeshiva
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