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Permitted for publication: Zvi Zucker and Baruch Sharvit are suspected in the murder cases of the "Shuvu Banim" community | Israel today

2021-11-29T10:17:51.613Z


The names of two of the suspects arrested in the murder and abduction cases of Avi Edri and Nissim Sheetrit were allowed to be published.


The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court partially granted the request of "Israel Today" and the "Here" Corporation and today (Monday) allowed the names of a small number of the suspects arrested as part of the investigation into the murder and abduction of the boy Nissim Sheetrit in 1986 and of Avi Edri in 1990.

One of the suspects is the son-in-law of the cult leader Eliezer Berland, Zvi Zucker.

According to the suspect, Zucker was at the head of the modesty guards at the time. 

Baruch Sharvit's name was also allowed to be published.

Encouraged by Berland, Sharvit gave investigators a version, linked himself to Sheetrit's murder, indicted some of the suspects arrested, repeated the events of that day and even took investigators to the forest where Sheetrit was allegedly beaten and buried.

Sharvit and Zucker are also suspected of the murder of Avi Edri, along with the mayor who was arrested last week, and who allegedly disguised himself as a woman to lure Edri to the place where his assailants were waiting for him, including another suspect who was also arrested last week.

Police noted in the two-year detention extension hearings that they took an active part in the murder.

All the suspects arrested were at the time the murders occurred, a significant part of the Shuvu Banim community, but the vast majority are no longer part of the community in recent years.

In Sheetrit's murder case, the police signed a state witness agreement with one of the suspects arrested.

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According to the police, he indicted other suspects, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon

The most prominent suspect in these cases is Berland, the head of the Shuvu Banim community, who is serving a prison sentence for offenses of extortion and fraud.

Investigators believe that it was Berland who gave the order to murder Nissim Sheetrit - due to his refusal to withdraw from the complaint he filed against the chastity guards, and Avi Edri, a taxi driver who is suspected by the chastity guards, of meeting with married women.

About Berland, the investigator said yesterday (Sunday) in a court hearing: "The chastity guards were a tool in Bernald's hands to harm those people who strayed from the path and snatched."

Another prominent suspect who was arrested and whose name was not allowed to be published because he was a minor when he allegedly participated in the murder of Avi Edri, is mayor. The publication was not allowed and so was the name of the person who testified before the interrogators that she served as a seduction girl to lure Sheetrit to the apartment where the chastity guards were waiting for him and from whom he was abducted.

The court also banned the publication of the name of the lawyer arrested in the case who is suspected of disrupting and conspiring, the name of another suspect as well as the name of a suspect who testified to investigators that he was driving a vehicle that led Sheetrit to the apartment.

Regarding him, the investigators believe that he not only served as a driver, but knew what was happening, drove the group to the Eshtaol forest when Sheetrit was handcuffed in the vehicle and did nothing to stop what was happening.

The late Avi Edri and Nissim Sheetrit, Photo: Herzli Shapira, from The Hidden Rabbi

The police suspect that part of the gang, as part of their activities in the chastity guards, seduced the boy Nissim Sheetrit in February 1986 to come to an apartment in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem, forced him and took him to the Eshtaol forest, where he was beaten to death and buried.

At an unknown time, his body was exhumed and buried elsewhere.

Despite the version and reconstruction, investigators have not yet found the remains of Sheetrit's body.

In addition, the suspects who were indicted as taking part in the incident, gave conflicting versions and did not confess to the murder but to the killing and claimed that they did not intend to murder Sheetrit but only to beat him to warn him not to speak.

Others remained silent and refused to cooperate with the police.

Police suspect that Berland was the one who gave the order to murder Sheetrit and Edri.

Police have evidence and recordings linking some of the suspects to Edri's murder.

However, even in this affair, the person who submitted a version claimed that there was no intention to kill Edri but only to seriously injure him.

The detention of all the suspects was extended by a few days, some more and some less.

A total of ten suspects have been arrested so far in this case, and others have been questioned.

More than 30 days after the investigation became public and the wave of arrests in the case began, investigators are nearing the end of the investigation.

The prosecution and the police will formulate their position within a few days regarding the indictments that will be filed in the case, if they are filed, with the main challenge being to prove the intent to commit murder in both cases - an offense that is not statute-barred, compared to the murder offense.

This afternoon, four of the suspects in the affair will be remanded in custody.

Police will file a prosecutor's statement against one of them, the son of a former minister, which means that by the end of the week an indictment against him for murder is expected.

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Source: israelhayom

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