06.04.2013;                      26.Nisan. 5773                      Schmini; Tag 11 des Omer

"Ehrenmorde":

Law and Order: Police curb 'honor killings'

In 2012, for the first time in nearly a decade, police in the Central District say not a single woman was murdered there by male relatives for ‘honor,’ which they credit to their program to identify and protect at-risk women.

Samah Salaime Egbariya sits in her small storefront office in the Israeli-Arab town of Lod and describes some of the murders in Lod and Ramle in recent years, rattling off the names of the women gunned down and stabbed to death by male relatives in what are commonly called “honor killings”….