{"id":202644,"date":"2026-07-12T13:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/202644\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T13:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:06:08","slug":"youth-counselor-in-rishon-lezion-finds-severed-head-near-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/202644\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth counselor in Rishon Lezion finds severed head near highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A youth counselor discovered a severed head while scouting ahead of an activity in the Holot area in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/rishon-lezion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rishon Lezion<\/a>, near Highway 431, between the Rishonim Mall and the gas station early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">She immediately called Israel Police after discovering the head at approximately 6 a.m., triggering a large response from the Central District police, who quickly arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>At first, police suspected the event to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-902177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">criminal<\/a> in nature. However, upon further investigation,\u00a0it later became clear that it was a tragic event.<\/p>\n<p>Sources familiar with the details told Walla that the body of a 22-year-old man, a resident of Rishon Lezion, who is known to the health system as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/aliyah\/article-901637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">mental health<\/a> patient, was found at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">A letter the 22-year-old left for his family was also found at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The investigation is ongoing and still in its early stages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-901774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police<\/a> officers at the scene continue to collect evidence and conduct extensive searches of the area to locate additional evidence that may help clarify the circumstances of the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A youth counselor discovered a severed head while scouting ahead of an activity in the Holot area in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[1584,37,5869,3568,43132],"class_list":["post-202644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-death","tag-israel","tag-israel-police","tag-mental-health","tag-rishon-lezion"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116907159243585465","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}