This sort of thing cannot be allowed - there is no cultural or religious excuse for this - and it playd directly into the hands of those who cynically manipulate Islam for their own political ends. This guy should be put in prison for life, and the family which congratulated him for at least 20 years for being accessory to murder.

What the hell is the matter with these people? Dont they talk anything out? Nope, just get a gun, pull the trigger and make their 'familiy honor' problems go away....if there WAS actually a problem. Disgusting.

in case other relatives try to continue and complete the failed work of the brother. May the authorities help her rebuild her life, free from her brothers' dominion, and in a place far off. The pity is that arabic girls never come of age but are always subdued either to their fathers, brothers, uncles or husbands... and in most cases are hindered from taking a useful part in society.

she gets over this or is there an organisation who looks after girls like this?

Any commentary on my part would be superfluous. This sentence sums up wonderfully, what sort of people we're dealing with.

I don't care where this vile tradition comes from, as human being and a woman I think this is a sickness that some of our Arab and Muslim societies suffer from and have yet to address. What honour is there is slaughterting one's sister? Indeed the shame rests in the bloody hands of her brother who obviously grew up to think his sister's life is not worth a damn. It takes the phrase 'dysfunctional family' to another level. As if Palestinians need more strife and crisis in their lives. It must end.

He's our kind of people and must be rescued from the zionist oppressor

This is the way we arab moslems live. these are the things we hold dear. It is not our fault that you wish to impose your backward western values on us. Family honour is a very important thing to us. Who knows what this girl did to deserve the bullets and the beating, proably uncovered herself in public or conversed with an evil yahud. Do not judge our way of life, this is what we hold dear, the girl was a harlot and disgraced our holy family name and honour, we have stories like this every day all over the arab world, it is as we call, "par for the course" and we thank you for not judging our perfectly legitimate way of life. We will show the west and the zionists what the will of allah (blessed be his name) really is, as it says in our holy Koran "you can shake your enemies hand until you are strong enough to cut it off" and "talk with a forked tongue for the sake of Allah"...we have been clear with you what our intentions for the Jewish state is right since the beginning, even before the naqba (disaster day) in 1948 when our holy martrys killed Zionists in the 1929 massacre. we hated you then and now, we do not want peace, we want our land back, every inch of it... Your government, especially the left wing show us such contempt by forcing their "peace" on us, we do not understand your language and you do not understand ours, we wil continue the killing until the message from us is loud and clear. We treat your concessions as weakness, no matter what you do we will ALWAYS feel the same way, so stop wasting our time and yours, Jihad is the only way allah hu akbar!

a shelter for battered women, if the local social authorities accept to pay for her stay there. These shelters exist in secret places and offer a variety of help to women in similar circumstances, regardless they are Jews, Arabs, Druze et cetera. Hopefully she will get help to seek legal action against the perpetrators, be given a secure place to stay for the short and long term, help to find work, psychological help and whatever is needed in the specific case. These places do exist in Israel, they do a great job\ and are very much needed as the number of batterings reported each year increases.

know that this is the STANDARD PROCEDURE when a girl has 'committed the crime' of falling in love and chosen a man for herself. Don't contradict me, please! I have lived here long enough to see it happen more than once. Only by Someone's mercy, the beatings didn't result in murder but in 'mere' battery. THE WHOLE CLAN AGAINST ONE MAN OR WOMAN. So much for 'crazy family'!!! THE WHOLE SYSTEM DOESN'T LET GIRLS COME OF AGE NOR MAKE ANY DECISIONS ON THEIR OWN ABOUT THEIR OWN LIVES. It should be well known by now.

Really, what's the problem? It's only a quaint folk-custom. We should respect other peoples customs. All values are equal, after all. People should live according to their traditions, don't we live in a democracy? Heaven forbid, we wouldn't want to offend anyone by criticizing their way of life. Anyway, she was probably a Zionist, who knows?

Let's call it by what it really is ATTEMPTED MURDER plain and simple! There is no such thing as Honor killing, murder doesnot bring honor and these acts must be condemned by Muslim Clerics! This woman needs to have a guard on her door and her family not allowed visitation since they present a clear and present danger to this woman's life! As for the brother lock him up for 30 years or so to show others that murder will not be allowed in this society no matter what your religious belief tells you!

Nice folks, it's a shame what you get when close relatives marry.

Find someplace where this girl will be safe! Maybe even out of the country!!

I want to see the official representatives of the Muslim communities in Israel, the mayors, the muftis , the whatever, shout out loud and condemn this shameful and primitive, barbaric and disgusting custom. The justice system is obliged to punish this man to the extent of the law and he must serve as an example to others. Every single PM must speak out and make it clear that this is not behavior that the State of Israel will tolerate. Any claim of cultural diversity is cowardly PC lip service. Enough is enough. It is bad enough that the mourner's tent is still up, what happened to our backbone??? Did we sell that too , in exchange for promises of peace and harmony? Waiting.

All of them are like this. The religion of hate nad death!!!

and you call jews murderers? go fus.

...confirming how far back Islam is from 21st century.....This attitude ( and other s) clearly demonstrate why democracy cannot be a part of Islamic nations....everything is linked together....In a real democratic society , human values are placed higher than personel "interests" . I do not see any Jews, Buddhist, Christians, or Shintoist attempting to kill any next of kin to save family's honour !

The mother is the one who educated her son to become a psychopath . She is herself an uneducated fool , who through bad mothering, perpetuates these ridiculous values to her children . These men have such low self esteem , it makes them feel good to have that small amount of power over the women ..because its part of the culture they don't realize its all dysfunctional.

arabs and muslims , dont forget that this happens in every community and country in israel and everywhere else in the world , or have you forgotton what we hear at least once a week here in israel about men ( jewish men ) killing there wives in cold blood , and yes at least this happens once a week in israel . so stop mixing this horroble crime with all the arabs and muslims ......

Hey you know what? How would it be if your village came out to do the same to you b/c you are visiting a "zionist" newspaper site...OMG, you are defiling all that is dear and true to your people. You are being dishonorable!....if someone googled your name and saw Khamzir and YNETnews, can you imagine what they would think? That kind of lunacy is exactly what happened to that poor girl. Don't know what kind of Islam you practice! How can we "understand" the fact that he premeditated murder. And remember, he is an Israeli citizen....so unfortunately fool force of the law will fall on him....noone making him into a shahid! And isn't it interesting that the father is the one who is compassionate?

merciful. This is our secular leftist Israeli society which dances to the tune of the goyim of the world. When will you wake up and realize that the Arabs who will mercilessly kill their own sisters in cold blood will certainly not have mercy on a Jew or a Christian or any non Moslem? Can you not see that their cruelty has no bounds? Why does this story surprise anyone? Why is this news? This is not news, it is a daily occurrence in Muslim culture. Get used to it, and be smart, deal with it!

They're not our fellow citizens and don't belong in Zion -- they are primitive criminals who should be imprisoned and then expelled.

AGAINST THE US AND EUROPA... I wish you had heard the sermon a couple of weeks ago!!! Oh yes, from an Israeli Arab mosque. Please, stop dreaming...