• Senior [police] officer says woman and partner, who later took his own life in detention, stashed body in ice cream freezer before burial in bid to continue claiming NIS 18,000 per month

A woman and her partner were arrested on suspicion that they buried her 93-year-old Holocaust survivor mother in the backyard after she died, in order to keep getting her survivor and social security benefits, the Israel Police said Monday.

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The 64-year-old daughter faces charges of fraud and interfering in a police investigation, along with failing to report the death.

According to Ynet, the pair fraudulently received benefits worth some NIS 18,000 (approximately $5,400) per month in Israeli social security and compensation from the German government.

“They simply did not report her death, and for a year and a half they continued to receive the money into the joint account,” Chief Inspector Alon Reuveni, head of the Galilee region’s special crime task force, told Ynet.

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The couple was detained after giving police conflicting reports about the fate of the woman, including that she had passed away in April 2024 and had been buried in a different city due to the ongoing war.

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Reuveni said that a breakthrough came when a workman remembered that there had been a large hole in the yard for an unknown reason.

Teams were sent in to excavate the yard, and the woman’s body was found.

“It turned out that for two days from her death until the decision to bury her, her daughter and her partner stored her body in an old ice cream freezer in the yard of the house,” he said.

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Source: timesofisrael.com/woman-buried-holocaust-survivor-mom-in-yard-to-keep-receiving-her-benefits-police/