Suicide in Israeli Jail

(Friday, December 22nd, 2006)

Asher Weisgan, a resident of Shiloh in the West Bank who was sentences for four consecutive life sentences for murdering four Palestinian workers in Shilo in order to stop the disengagement from Gaza, has taken his own life at the Ayalon prison using his tefillin to hang himself.

Weisgan was kept in the religious section of the prison, but asked to be transferred to another cell where he committed suicide Friday afternoon. Police have launched an investigation into the incident.

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5 Comments

  1. bklynmom says:

    Hashem have pity!!!

  2. fester says:

    all this is because of sharons disingagement. these people that got evicted from their homes lost their identity and are slowly giving up on life. WE MUST HELP THEM…

  3. sheryl says:

    nebach

  4. real klur says:

    v’es dimchem minafshosechem edrosh

  5. Itzik_s says:

    An unstable man, to be sure, but any suicide by a “political” prisoner in a medinescher jail is bound to come under suspicion. Who knows – let his neshomo have a rest.

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