A man is accused of setting fire to his ex-wife's apartment in Zichron Yaacov while she and their children were inside

Documentation from the scene shows the man arriving at the building equipped with gasoline tanks, then setting the place on fire.

In an incident last month, there were no casualties but much damage was done.

In parallel with this case, a lawsuit is being filed against the divorcee for assaulting the woman during her pregnancy in 2019.

"The woman felt she had no choice but to leave the country"

Yoav Itiel

18/07/2022

Monday, 18 July 2022, 08:26 Updated: 08:41

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A man set fire to his ex-wife's apartment in Zichron Yaacov while she and their children were inside (investigation file)

An indictment was filed in the Haifa District Court last week against a 35-year-old resident of Pardes Hanna, Aviel Levy, for setting fire to his ex-wife's apartment in Zichron Yaacov, while she and their three children were sleeping in the apartment.

There were no casualties in the incident, but the apartment itself was badly damaged.

The day before there was an argument between the divorcees, this time against the background of the woman's demand that he settle the children's HMO payments.

A day after the argument, around 3:00 a.m. on June 21, security cameras recorded the man arriving in his vehicle in the parking lot of the house in the Ramat Zvi neighborhood of the locality, equipped with a container and a plastic bottle filled with gasoline.

He was later documented getting out of the vehicle, examining the area, then pouring gasoline in the yard and setting it on fire while a large fire broke out, and he quickly fled the scene.

Levy was arrested a day later, in Tiberias.

For he noticed the fire and called the security and rescue forces, who arrived within minutes and found the mother shouting in terror, with her three children by her side.

Many neighbors who saw the flames or felt the smoke, evacuated from their apartments in the building and buildings adjacent to the street.

Firefighters who worked at the scene worked to put out the fire and searched for trapped people at the scene.

"Such a fire can jump from porch to porch, the smoke fills the stairwell, and within minutes and sometimes even seconds such an event can end in a heavy disaster," he told Walla!

Sergeant Jonathan South, who commanded a firefighting team that came from Or Akiva, “At night people were sleeping, and we scanned an apartment to make sure no one was left at home.

"Unfortunately, the phenomenon of arson of apartments, businesses and cars has been spreading in recent years, used to eliminate personal accounts and without taking into account the possible fatal result."

The divorcee is accused of setting fire to his divorcee's apartment while she was there with her children.

Documentation (Photo: Giphy)

Zichron Yaacov investigators deciphered the incident, after scanning the arena and locating the security cameras that documented the arson.

Aviel Levy's fingerprints were found on a bag left in the arena, and his relatives identified him in the incriminating video.

According to the indictment, at the police station, Levy continued to make harsh threats against his ex-wife, in addition to those he had made against her prior to the arson incident.

Also at the station, while she was sitting in an adjoining room, he told the interrogator, "I am her angel of death, you will die ... you will eventually cause me to murder her ... I will turn on your mother and you next time."

He is now charged with arson and threats.

"In this case, hard work was done," said Corporal Liat Elitim, from the Zichron Yaacov station. It is very difficult to get an indictment, if only because of the danger she faced to a woman,

Simultaneously with the filing of the indictment, the Haifa District Attorney's Office requested that Levy's detention be extended until the end of the legal proceedings against him.

Judge Nitzan Silman is expected to hold another hearing on the body of the request, and meanwhile, while Adv. Yishai Niv, representing Levy on behalf of the Public Defender's Office, is studying the investigation file, he extended the detention until a different decision

. Assault against his wife in 2019, while she was in her ninth month of pregnancy. The indictment has not yet been read. On June 26, he did not appear - although he had been arrested by the police in the arson case four days earlier. An indictment was also filed against the divorcee's brother in November 2020, for setting the divorcee's car on fire and other offenses. in jail.

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