{"id":253569,"date":"2026-08-17T23:38:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/253569\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T23:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:38:29","slug":"israeli-dies-in-peru-after-over-three-years-in-peruvian-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/253569\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli dies in Peru after over three years in Peruvian prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 62-year-old man from Petah Tikva died in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-895629\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peru<\/a> after three and a half years in prison there, according to a Monday statement from ZAKA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Shortly after receiving the news, Israel&#8217;s Foreign Ministry, along with ZAKA, began working with Peru&#8217;s Foreign Ministry to make all necessary arrangements for the body to be returned to Israel for burial.<\/p>\n<p>The man was on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/travel\/article-904507\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vacation<\/a> in Thailand when the died.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The ZAKA team worked with Thailand-based Chabad rabbi, Rabbi Nehemia Wilhelm, and Israel&#8217;s Foreign Ministry in an effort to bring the body quickly back to Israel for burial.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Also on Saturday, reports emerged that a young Israeli man was killed in a traffic accident on Thursday in Kanchanaburi, a province in western Thailand. The man was riding a motorcycle when he collided with a pickup truck.<\/p>\n<p>He was pronounced dead at the scene and taken to a local hospital for an autopsy. Local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-905770\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> opened an investigation into the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meital Sharabi contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 62-year-old man from Petah Tikva died in Peru after three and a half years in prison there,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[37,19959,17640,6561,44792],"class_list":["post-253569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-israel","tag-peru","tag-petah-tikva","tag-south-america","tag-zaka"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117113487935891336","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253569","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=253569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}