A man aged around 40 and his daughter aged around 20 were found dead in their Beit Shemesh home on Saturday in a suspected murder-suicide.
The father in his 40s and daughter aged around 20 are found dead in their home; report says woman and her brother had taken out a restraining order against their father
The Magen David Adom emergency services said the two were found with stab wounds and medics were unable to revive them. Police said they have opened an investigation.
According to Hebrew-language media reports, it was suspected that the man stabbed his daughter to death before killing himself.
The Ynet news site said the man had been issued with a restraining order and was not supposed to be in close proximity to either his daughter or her brother.
Activists have long complained that not enough is done to prevent violence against women in Israel, particularly in cases known to the authorities.
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According to researchers at the Hebrew University-based Israel Observatory on Femicide, June was the deadliest month this year so far for the murder of women.
A study by the center examining the first half of 2022 found a 71 percent increase in femicide relative to the same period last year.
The center said in a January report that there were 16 cases of women murdered in Israel by a relative or a partner throughout 2021, and 21 cases in 2020.
Source: TIMES OF ISRAEL
