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Hadassa Ben Ari Shares Harrowing Family Moment Tied to Recent Murder
Israeli singer's ex-wife Hadasa Ben Ari nearly crashed after her son said 'I'll murder you' to his sister, hours after a local woman was fatally stabbed by her husband.
Hadasa Ben Ari, the ex-wife and mother of seven children with Israeli singer and songwriter Hanan Ben Ari, recounted a disturbing incident on Wednesday that nearly led to a car accident while driving with her kids.
The episode, which she described as "making her stomach turn," was triggered by overhearing one child threaten to "murder" a sibling, words that echoed a tragic real-life femicide from the previous night.
In a candid social media post, Ben Ari detailed the tense moment on a narrow road with no shoulders. "I almost caused an accident yesterday when I screamed," she wrote. "I screamed at one of the kids. They know it's rare ... I hardly scream anymore. I've stopped exaggerating, it's a waste of energy. But I couldn't help screaming because he said to her, 'I hit you because you called me 'efes' (which mean a nothing)! In front of your friends! If you do it again, I'll murder you!'
And those words, 'I'll murder you,' made my stomach turn because last night, Chana Inna Danilov was buried after her husband Vladimir stabbed her to death in their home." The reference was to the recent killing in Neve Pardes, where Danilov's eyes, once familiar from local encounters at the grocery store or shopping center, now stared lifelessly from news headlines.
Ben Ari, overcome with emotion, continued screaming without taking her eyes off the road: "What did you say? 'I'll murder you'? Listen to me, and listen well," she recalled telling her son. "Our words have power. When you say those words, you give them reality in the world. As if a child could murder his sister. The words you scatter reach places we don't even know about. I don't want to live in a world where people murder their family members.
'A woman was murdered in Pardes Hanna,' I told him, 'and I don't want to burden you with all this, but I'm not willing to hear you or anyone else in this car say those words.'
Because he's the most sensitive creature in the world, he understood it perfectly.
Toward the end of her post, Ben Ari shared how she once helped another abused woman escape her violent husband, urging her followers to extend a helping hand when needed. "Sometimes you just need to offer that hand," she wrote. "Think of Inna Danilov and look for the person asking for your hand."
Israel Hayom's For Real contribted to this article.