Ahuvia Sandak, z”l; Photo courtesy of the family
Monday, May 5, 2025, 16:17 In December 2020, Ahuvia Sandak, z”l, a 16-year-old Jewish youth, was tragically killed in a police-car chase in the Binyamin region. The car Ahuvia was in, with four other youths, overturned when the police car collided with it from behind. The youths, who were injured in the car ramming, were indicted on various charges.
The Jerusalem District Court sentenced two of the youths to four months and 300 hours of community service, respectively. Two months ago, the court sentenced the other two youths to lenient prison terms that were commuted to community service. The officers who were involved in the chase and investigated on suspicion of obstructing the investigation of the collision have not been put on trial. Honenu Attorneys Adi Keidar, Moshe Poleski, David HaLevi and Yitzhak Bam are representing the youths.
Attorney Keidar commented on the case: “We thought from the start that the youths should not have been indicted. The indictment was solely an attempt to protect the actual guilty parties, the Israel Police and the State Attorney’s office. They fiercely defended the police officers who caused Ahuvia’s death. In the end, the sentences served to the youths were lenient, which is the best we could have expected. We hope that this painful chapter is over, and that the necessary lessons have been learned.”
Attorney Bam added: “Unfortunately, justice was not done. The officers who collided with the youths’ car and caused Ahuvia’s death have not been penalized for their actions. The court did hand down lenient sentences to the youths, the victims of the incident. However, the fact that the officers are walking free is a badge of shame for all of us.”
Since the death of Ahuvia Sandak, z”l, in a police-car chase on 6 Tevet, 5781 (December 21, 2020), Honenu has been representing those who are demanding a judicial investigation of the cause of the death, and also defending the many who are detained while demonstrating for a change in the police behavior that led to the fatal car ramming. Please click here for a list of posts connected to the case.