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21-Year-Old Pizzeria Worker Killed After Confronting Teens in Petah Tikva

4/24/2026

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Yemanu Binyamin Zalka, a 21-year-old pizzeria employee, was stabbed in Petah Tikva after he asked teenagers to stop shooting snow-spray.
Magen David Adom paramedics arrived at about 1:15 a.m. on Wednesday, found Zalka unconscious, and he died at Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus.
Mayor Rami Greenberg condemned the killing and pledged justice, while colleagues praised Zalka as a hardworking employee who rose from delivery driver to shift supervisor.

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Yemanu Binyamin Zalka, a 21-year-old pizzeria employee, was stabbed in Petah Tikva after he asked teenagers to stop shooting snow-spray.
Magen David Adom paramedics arrived at about 1:15 a.m. on Wednesday, found Zalka unconscious, and he died at Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus.
Mayor Rami Greenberg condemned the killing and pledged justice, while colleagues praised Zalka as a hardworking employee who rose from delivery driver to shift supervisor.