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Israeli child killed in Beit Shemesh stabbing
The Jerusalem Post • • world
Key Points:
- A seven-year-old Israeli boy, Hillel Mordechai Dadon, was killed and his four-year-old cousin was moderately injured in a suspected stabbing at a home in Beit Shemesh, reportedly by a mentally unstable intruder.
- Paramedics found the children with stab wounds in the family's pool; the younger child is undergoing surgery at Hadassah-University Medical Center while the older boy was pronounced dead upon arrival.
- Israeli police have launched an official investigation and arrested a suspect in connection with the attack, which occurred while a 15-year-old relative was supervising the children.
- In a separate Beit Shemesh incident, a four-year-old boy died after being hit by a vehicle; paramedics were unable to revive him at the scene despite resuscitation efforts.
