All of Israel is still in shock from the news of the murder of 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher. Reported missing on Thursday, her body was found Thursday evening in the Ein Yael forest just south of Jerusalem. Ansbacher was buried on Friday in Tekoa, her hometown. Ansbacher was doing a year of national service at a youth center in Jerusalem.

Ori Ansbacher (Puoto via Twitter Joel Leyden)
Prayer vigils and rallies were held around Israel on Saturday night when Na’ah Ansbacher, Ori’s mother, addressed the media for the first time from her home in Tekoa, Gush Etzion.
“I ask from those who are listening to us and for whom our words are entering their hearts, to do one small thing to add light to the world — one act of kindness and maybe we will preserve Ori’s [soul] in the world and maybe we will have some comfort by adding light to the world,” said Na’ah Ansbacher. ‘Ori’ means “my light” in Hebrew.
“It’s important for us that the world know who Ori was,” she said. “Ori was a child of light, adding so much light in the world. She cured broken hearts wherever she went, be it with her girlfriends, the boys and girls she worked with during her national [volunteer] service, even people she did not know.”
Forensic and FNA evidence led security forces to arrest a 29-year-old Palestinian in Ramallah late on Friday. The Arab residents clashed with Israeli security faces during the operation to arrest the suspect, throwing stones, pipebombs and Molotov cocktails. The suspect had been illegally residing in Hebron. Police released a statement on Saturday saying that the forensic evidence at the scene tied the suspect to the murder “without question,” according to a Channel 13 report. The Shin Bet, Israeli security service, released a statement saying that he confessed to the murder and provided details of the crime.
“The interrogation of the suspect is ongoing and is focused, in particular, on the motives for the murder,” the Shin Bet statement read. The suspect previously served time in Israeli prison for being in the country illegally and for possession of a knife.
Capital punishment is legal in Israel. There have been two death sentences in Israeli history and the last execution was carried out in 1962 when Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann was hanged for genocide and crimes against humanity.