A Hadera Magistrate’s Court judge on Sunday extended the detention of a 40-year-old local resident suspected of taking her husband’s handgun and firing a single round toward him after having found him engaged in intercourse with a coworker the previous day, according to court proceedings and police.
No one was injured in the incident, which occurred beneath the couple’s building while the husband was on shift as a security guard. The woman expressed remorse in court and said she did not intend to kill her husband.
Police initially listed suspicions of attempted murder, theft of a weapon, discharging a firearm, and making threats.
However, Judge Ehud Kaplan said that based on the investigative file before him, he found no indication of an attempted murder or of theft of the weapon, and that the case likely concerns unlawful use of a firearm. The court ordered a 24-hour extension after police requested five days.
The alleged shooting occurred in the parking area under the couple’s home in Givat Olga. During Sunday’s remand hearing, the suspect told the court she wanted to return home to her son, who has special needs, and insisted she had no intention to harm her husband.
Woman returned home to find husband having sex with coworker
On Saturday night, police brought the suspect to the Haifa Magistrate’s Court, where Defense Attorney Nes Ben Natan said the woman, a mother of two, discovered her husband mid-sex act with a coworker during his security shift.
He argued that she grabbed the pistol in anger and fired at the floor to express her outrage. “This is what she says, and this is what her husband says,” the attorney told the court, noting she volunteered to take a polygraph and gave an uncontradicted statement.
Police representative Sgt. First Class Naif Kaabiya asked the court to extend the suspect’s detention by five days, while the defense sought her release, or alternatively, release under restrictive terms.
Judge Ilana Hadar partially granted the request, ordering a one-day extension. The woman was brought back to the Hadera Magistrate’s Court on Sunday as police continued to seek an additional five days.
“It was one shot,” Attorney Ben Natan argued in court. “If she wanted to hit him, she could have hit him. She did not want to harm him.”