225:. According to the company's testimony, she got off the taxi at about 1:00 AM, at a bus stop near the city's football stadium. She crossed the road and began walking towards the house, where her aunt and uncle lived on Bar-Kocha Street in Upper Tiberias, where she was supposed to meet her cousins Ortal and Lalon. Since then, nobody saw her. At 1:45 that night, a signal was received from her cellphone near a
374:, information reached the police that was more important than anything else collected to that date. Based on that information, the investigators arrived at the house of a 22-year-old woman named Y. (because she was a minor at the time of the murder, her identity was concealed). Y. confessed that she was the girlfriend of the murderer, Yahya Adwan Farhan, a 32-year-old resident of
385:, in order to conceal the corpse. On May 18, 2009, six years after her disappearance, the police central valley units announced that they had found Bennett's remains near Tiberias. The body parts were sent to the Forensic Institute at Abu Kabir, where her identity was confirmed. Three days later, Bennett was brought for burial near Tiberias.
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50,000 prize to anyone who knew where she is. The amount was later doubled to $ 100,000. However, the police did not have an active suspect in the case, and nobody claimed the family's prize. Later, Amnon Levy claimed that the head of Am Ehad, Miriam
Moskowitz, had defrauded the Bennett family, telling them that their daughter was held in
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police. After a fight with another prisoner named Aharon
Simchov, Farhan followed him to the shower, where he strangled him to death. Until then, the police thought that Simchov had committed suicide. Farhan was also charged in the kidnapping and rape of a prostitute in September 2005, but the victim escaped after the attack.
285:. The Arab regional radio station "Radio a-Shams", which had opened shortly before, also helped recruit Arab volunteers for searches. About a week later, her father and brother came to Israel to participate in the searches, and they involved the FBI in the investigation. The searches later moved to the area of
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prisoners in return for giving information about her fate, and the
Israeli prime minister apologize to "our people for all the crimes committed by the occupying army". However, the organization refrained from publishing information proving its responsibility for the abduction and thus raised doubts
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and sentenced to 14 years imprisonment. On
January 4, 2012, the Supreme Court rejected her appeal on the severity of the sentence. On July 21, 2010, Farhan was convicted and sentenced to three cumulative life sentences and another 12 years. The judges ruled that the act was "murder for no reason",
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On May 26, police announced that the suspect in the murder was Yahya Farhan. In the indictment, it is alleged that Farhan and Y. noticed
Bennett exit the shared taxi while travelling in his car. They persuaded her to board the car under false pretences, and then Farhan drove to the fields between
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The police also charged Farhan with two other murders: in June 2003, he murdered Silvia
Molarova, a Czech tourist who was drowned in the Tzalmon River; in this murder, he was also assisted by his girlfriend. The other murder occurred in July 2004: at the time, Farhan was detained by the Tiberias
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area. More than a month after her disappearance, and after they reached the conclusion that the investigation had hit a dead end, her parents, Victoria and
Benjamin, together with Yachdav-Am and Rabbi Shlomo Harush, the principal of her childhood school in the United States, decided to offer a $
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Superintendent Avi Hilweh, investigations officer of the Amakim District of the Israeli Police, to question dozens of witnesses regarding the incident. Some were detained at the police station, although later released by the
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Galilee. Another such operation was conducted in January 2004, and the establishment of a new brainstorming by the Valley Commander Yaakov Zigdon, who made yet another search the following month in Tiberias and Migdal. More extensive searches were conducted four years after her
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In addition, another testimony revealed about two men in a parked car who were seen signaling to a girl matching
Bennett's description. It was determined that the two men, who were married, were seeking sexual adventures, but the police denied their involvement in Bennett's disappearance.
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who disappeared on August 1, 2003, on her way home from work, near her aunt and uncle's house. A large-scale operation to locate Bennett was conducted to no avail. Her remains were finally discovered in 2009 after a confession from the girlfriend of the perpetrator,
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246:. The team also examined dozens of testimonials from people who saw of heard Bennett from the date of absence, but to no avail. The investigation also examined the possibility of criminal or nationalistic motives. Because of her American citizenship, the
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conducted extensive searches for Bennett, in cooperation with thousands of volunteers and policemen, with the assistance of helicopters, cavalry, jeeps and ATVs, which initially focused on the environs of
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Migdal and Hamaam, where he beat, choked Bennett to death with her own bra, and then burned her body. Y. witnessed the murder, and then helped in burning the body.
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as to the legitimacy of the announcement. The very existence of the organization is questioned. Similar messages linked to the organization, supposedly composed of
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