An Ethiopian immigrant to Israel killed his wife and then himself in the presence of the couple’s eight children. Ilu Beja, 46, stabbed his wife, Adelu, 42, repeatedly before turning the knife on himself last Friday. Both died shortly afterward in the hospital.
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