The Israeli police have said they are investigating whether there are criminal motivations or not behind the two shooting incidents in Haifa city.
Earlier news reports affirmed that the police suspected that there were criminal motives behind the attacks but Israel’s Channel 10 referred to new police suspicions that the incidents could be a commando operation carried out by the Palestinian resistance.
The Shin Bet Israel’s internal intelligence apparatus joined the investigations to find out the real motives.
An Israeli man was killed and a rabbinic judge was injured in separate shootings in Haifa on Tuesday morning.
Yehiel Iluz 48 a senior judge of a Haifa rabbinic court was moderately wounded in a shooting on the city’s Haatzma’ut Road.
Some 30 minutes later Guy Kafri 47 a van driver from Haifa’s Nesher neighborhood was also shot and killed on a nearby street.
Earlier reports identified Kafri as a rabbi linked to a rabbinical court and said his death could be related to the first attack.
A spokesperson for the rabbinic court told a Hebrew news website that the driver and the judge were victims of mistaken identity and an underworld battle.
There are contradicting eyewitness accounts. While some said the shooter was male others said the shooter was female according to the police.
