Netanel Arami (27) died on Tuesday when he fell from the Petach Tikva hi-rise building he was working on. He leaves behind a wife and unborn child.
Arami owned a company that did construction work on the outside of hi-rise buildings by rappelling (snappling) down the sides of the building by cable. Both his cables snapped and he fell to his death from the 13th floor.
A friend, Gilad Hason, was on the phone with Arami at the time, when he heard Arami suddenly scream and the line went dead. He went to the construction site to learn his friend had fallen and died, according to a report in Makor Rishon.
The police have placed a gag order on details of the investigation.
Arami’s family claims he was murdered for nationalistic reasons (a euphemism for terrorism) by the construction workers.
His widow claims that Arami complained to her a number of times that he was concerned some of the construction workers may try to kill him.
MK Moshe Feiglin, who introduced rappelling for hi-rise construction work into Israel, claims the Arab workers may have cut both the snappling cables. Feiglin said, the safety regulations in place make it highly unlikely for both cables would snap, unless someone cut them from above.
The family learned about Arami’s death via the internet. They were not notified by the police.
The family claims the police are trying to suppress the news that Netanel Arami was murdered in a terror attack.
The family of Shelly Dadon, who was murdered in a nationalistic attack in May, also claimed for months that the police were trying to suppress the news that Dadon was killed in a terror attack.