Kidnapping and murder of Eliyahu Asheri
| Murder of Eliyahu Asheri | |
|---|---|
| Location | West Bank |
| Date | June 25, 2006 |
|
Attack type
|
Kidnapping, Shooting attack |
| Deaths | One Israeli civilian (Eliyahu Asheri) |
| Perpetrator | Popular Resistance Committees claimed responsibility |
| Eliyahu Asheri | |
|---|---|
| Born |
2 February 1988 Itamar, West Bank |
| Disappeared | June 25, 2006 (aged 18) on his way from Beitar Illit to Neveh Tzuf |
| Died | 25 June 2006 (aged 18) Beitunia, Palestinian territories |
| Cause of death | shot to death |
| Body discovered | 29 June 2006 |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Citizenship | Israeli |
| Known for | Abducted and killed by PRC militants. |
The murder of Eliyahu Asheri was a terror attack which carried out on June 25, 2006, in which Palestinian Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) militants kidnapped, and later murdered the 18-year-old Israeli high school student Eliyahu Asheri.
The attack occurred only a few hours after the capture of Corporal Gilad Shalit that led to Operation Summer Rains.
Eliyahu Pinchas Asheri (Hebrew: אליהו פנחסי אשר; February 2, 1988 – June 25, 2006) was an Israeli student from the settlement of Itamar, in the northern West Bank. He was a student at the religious pre-army Mechina (preparatory program) "Elisha" in Neveh Tzuf. His father Yitro Asheri, originally from Adelaide, was converted by St Kilda’s Rabbi Philip Heilbrunn in 1986. Yitro Asheri had moved from the Adelaide suburb of Glenelg to the Jewish centre of North Adelaide at the time of his conversion. About six months after his conversion he moved to Israel. He first settled in kibbutz Sde Eliyahu where he learned some Hebrew and later moved to a yeshiva headed by Rabbi Haim Druckman. The Asheri family were one of the founding members of Itamar and have lived there from 1991.
On Sunday, June 25, 2006, Eliyahu was kidnapped while on his way from Beitar Illit to Neveh Tzuf, northwest of Ramallah.
On Tuesday, June 27, 2006, Eliyahu's father, Yitro Asheri, initially submitted a missing-person report about his son to the Ariel Police. According to Yitro he did not report his son's absence for two days because Eliyahu used to regularly disappear for extended periods in the past without keeping daily contact with his parents. Asheri was last seen on 9:00 pm Sunday night, after he left the home of a friend in Betar Illit and was hitchhiking near the French Hill intersection of Jerusalem by one of his classmates.
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