Two brothers, ages 18 and 24, were in police custody today in connection with the Sunday night murders of Shmuel Horesh, 82 and his 72-year-old wife. Regina, in their Tel Aviv home. Mr. and Mrs. Horesh were the parents of Mrs. Raya Jaglom. world president of WIZO, the women’s Zionist organization. Mrs. Jaglom returned from Switzerland where she had been visiting to attend the funeral services this morning.
Police, who described the murder as one of the most cruel in Israel’s history, did not immediately release the names of the suspects who were reported to be cooperating with the authorities. According to unofficial accounts, the brothers, who ran a matrimonial agency, rented a flat from the Horesh couple but were troublesome tenants.
Mrs. Horesh is believed to have visited the flat Sunday to demand unpaid rent and to ask the brothers to move. She was murdered in the flat and the suspects allegedly stole her keys and went to the Horesh apartment where they murdered Mr. Horesh, apparently in the belief that he was the only person who knew where his wife had gone. Neighbors who knew of the brothers’ trouble with the Horeshs, alerted police who took the young men into custody.
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