The indictment filed by the Southern District Attorney’s Office states that Dadon and the deceased were cousins. During 2021, while the deceased was living at their grandmother’s house, Dadon arrived one day and entered the house when the grandmother was not present. A short time later, the deceased was evacuated by ambulance to the hospital, having been stabbed more than 120 times. In the yard of the house, eyewitnesses saw the final stages of the incident, with the deceased groaning on the floor and Dadon continuing to stab him. One of the witnesses called out to him to stop his actions, but to no avail.
In their verdict, the judges of the Beersheba District Court – Alon Infeld, Ariel Hazak, and Dina Cohen – rejected Dadon’s claim that unidentified individuals entered the apartment and harmed him and the deceased, and convicted him of murder under aggravated circumstances.
As part of the sentencing arguments, attorney Muhammad Suleiman from the Southern District Attorney’s Office noted the difficult circumstances under which the murder was committed, which amounted to “special cruelty,” as well as the fact that the multiplicity of stab wounds indicates a desire to cause suffering with an intensity exceeding that required to cause death.
In their sentencing, the judges noted that beyond the murder being extremely cruel and difficult, it was an act committed against the defendant’s cousin, in the grandmother’s house, a short time after the defendant kissed the grandmother as she left the house, the same house where the deceased had found a resting place after life’s upheavals.
In light of the foregoing, the court sentenced Dadon to life imprisonment for an indeterminate period, as well as compensation to the deceased’s family in the amount of NIS 258,000.
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