Oshri, who passed away at the age of 82, became famous for his involvement in the double murder of the "Beef Beek" factory in 1980 • He was released from prison in 2000 after being sentenced

• Tuvia Oshri // Photo: Moshe Shay

Tuvia Oshri, one of the leaders of the Vineyard gang, passed away tonight at the age of 82. The name of the late Oshri rose to the headlines after the double murder of the "Beef Beek" meat factory he owned. Orion and Ezer Cohen and then carved out their bodies in the meat factory.

The late Oshri was born and raised in the Yemenite vineyard, and after being beaten by the rabbi in the Torah Talmud where he studied in Tel Aviv, he left school. At the age of 13, he began his delinquent path when he was caught stealing money - and sent to the kibbutz. Yemen's Vineyard, and began working in a workshop, where he learned the "profession" - the safe-deposit box.

In the army, Oshri served in the Golani Brigade and, after his release, worked in the frame and knew "Gomdi". The two formed the Vineyard Gang, which was mainly engaged in robberies of diamond polishing and hacking, and as a result, the two became wealthy, acquired business and reached the heart of the Israeli bohemia when one of their good friends was also the late Minister Rehoboam Ze'evi.

Moshe Aharoni (center). Oshri's partner in double murder // Photo: Moshe Shay

In 1977, Oshri and Aharoni starred in the 11th list, which included the names of organized crime people in Israel and was leaked to Haaretz newspaper correspondent Avi Valentin, who at that time wrote a series of articles on organized crime. During all those years, police tried to tie the two to criminal acts, but without success, and most of them were released immediately after their arrest.

In the early 1980s, the two made their first mistake when they committed the horrific murder at the "Be'er Becker" plant, after which they buried the fortified bodies of Orion and Cohen in the sand dunes near the Ashdod electricity company. The two were sentenced to life imprisonment, although the line of defense at trial was that Oshri acted out of self-defense because Orion and Cohen intended to kill him after trying to extort him.

Tuvia Oshri in the Yemenite Vineyard // Photo: Roni Shitzer

The late Oshri was released from prison in 2000 after his sentence was reassigned and since then he has opened several stores in the Carmel market, but in the meantime has remained in the open and given interviews to the media about the difficult life after prison.

"My yesterday is biting my tomorrow," he said in an interview with Maariv. "I don't let any inmates in our state get rehabilitated. I knew no one would hire me and worried for myself. To this day, as I walk through the street, there are people who look at me fearfully and walk away like I'm a serial killer. I haven't sat in jail before killing Orion and Cohen, and I certainly haven't been crime since After 20 years, everything is different. The music, the dynamics, even the colors on different streets. Although it has been more than a decade, I feel like I haven't been able to acclimatize. Maybe that's enough for me. "