Zvia Pinhas

Sept 26, 2001 - Zvia Pinhas, 64, of Moshav Maor was stabbed to death in her home.

Early in the morning, the day before Yom Kippur, Shlomo Pinhas returned home from the synagogue and went to wake his wife so they could have their morning coffee together. Zvia, who suffered from chronic back pain, had slept in a special orthopedic bed in a separate room. Shlomo found his wife dead in her bed, stabbed in the neck and chest.

The murder remained unsolved until January 2003, when DNA tests on a Palestinian from Jenin from the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, who was arrested on suspicion of involvement in other terrorist activities, were found to match the evidence in Zvia's bedroom.

Shlomo and Zvia Pinhas immigrated to Israel in the late 1940s and were among the founders of Moshav Maor in the northern Sharon area. They raised eight children, seven of whom had married. Their son Yoav related how his mother would make the rounds, visiting her children and grandchildren every evening. Noah, the last to remain single, was planning to tell his parents that he had decided to marry on the day Zvia was killed. In January 2003, his daughter, named Adi-Zvi after his mother, was born.

Zvia Pinhas is survived by her husband Shlomo, their eight children and 21 grandchildren.