Woman shot dead in 71st murder in Israel’s Arab community this year

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A woman was shot dead on Friday in her vehicle in the central city of Ramle, in the 71st violent death in Israel’s Arab community this year.

Police believe the gunman, who fled the scene, may have lay in wait to commit the attack, meaning it was unlikely that the 28-year-old woman was mistaken for someone else.

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A large contingent of police was sent to the scene, where it collected evidence and security camera footage.

Police are investigating a suspicion that she was murdered because she stopped living with her in-laws after her husband was murdered in a 2015 shooting in the city. They are investigating the possibility that she was killed because she took their children and moved away from the home of her husband’s family to settle in Haifa, possibly angering the family.

The woman had lived in Haifa since moving away from Ramle, and police are investigating why she was in Ramle on Friday.

Also Friday, two people were wounded – one critically and one moderately – by gunfire in the northern town of Jadaeidi-Makr.

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According to recent data, the police have helped solve only 23 percent of the murders in Israel’s Arab community this year, compared with 71 percent for the Jewish community, with one senior police official saying Israel must improve young Arabs’ access to the job market as a way of reducing murder rates in the community. The police refuse to release numbers on solved cases, so Haaretz collects them independently.

According to the data, last year only one-third of the 97 murders of Arabs produced indictments, while in the Jewish community two-thirds of the 44 killings were solved.