Murder of Eliyahu Asheri

Eliyahu Pinchas Asheri[2] (Hebrew: אליהו פנחסי אשר; February 2, 1988 – June 25, 2006) was an Israeli student from the settlement of Itamar, in the northern West Bank.

[6] On Tuesday, June 27, 2006, Eliyahu's father, Yitro Asheri, initially submitted a missing-person report about his son to the Ariel Police.

According to Yitro he did not report his son's absence for two days because Eliyahu used to regularly disappear for extended periods in the past without keeping daily contact with his parents.

[3][7] Asheri was last seen on 9:00 pm Sunday night, after he left the home of a friend in Betar Illit[7] and was hitchhiking near the French Hill intersection of Jerusalem by one of his classmates.

[26] Thousands attended Asheri's funeral which was held on the same day his body was found, during the afternoon hours on the Mount of Olives Jewish cemetery in Jerusalem.

[21] On the morning hours of 4 July 2006, during a joint operation conducted by the IDF and the Israel Security Authorities, the three Tanzim militants whom murdered Eliyahu Asheri and whom were hiding in the a Palestinian Police headquarters building in Ramallah, were apprehended after a three-hour standoff.