Solving the decades-old mystery of the Lazarevich family murders

Heritage researcher Gideon Mitchenik, in a conversation with Arutz Sheva, has revisited the 1938 abduction and murder of the Lazarevich and Kirzner families during the Great Arab Revolt. On the night of August 16-17, 1938, an Arab gang led by Yosef Abu Dura, having failed to attack a detention camp in Atlit, targeted the home of Moshe Lazarevich, the facility's deputy commander. Moshe, his mother Beruriah, his three children, and Beruriah's brother, Eliyahu Kirzner, were abducted and taken to the village of Ein Hod. While the children were released, the three adults were murdered by the gang. Initial British police investigations were thwarted by the gang's intimidation of local residents. In 1962, veteran investigator Shlomo Ben Elkanah reopened the case, utilizing intelligence techniques and interviews with locals to locate the burial site. The remains, including clothing fragments and uniform buttons, were eventually interred in the Rishon LeZion cemetery. A memorial now stands at the site of the family's former home near Zichron Yaakov.