Businesswoman and Instagram host Racheli Yifrah fell victim to a daring armed robbery on Monday, which happened in the parking lot of her residence in Petah Tikva. When Farah parked her Mercedes, two young men on a motorcycle jumped at her, sprayed her with tear gas and threatened her with drawn guns. This is how they managed to rob her of a luxury watch from Richard Mille, whose value is estimated at hundreds of thousands of shekels, as well as other valuable items.
Yafarah, confronted the robbers for several minutes, and even managed to prevent them from robbing her of more jewelry. Neighbors who came to her aid called the police, who opened an investigation and collected the videos from the security cameras in the building, at the same time as searching for suspects. One of the videos commemorates the moments of horror and drama. In the video, Yefarah is seen getting off a chariot and calmly walking towards the elevator. At one point, she makes a sharp turn and starts running, with a young man wearing a helmet and holding a gun chasing her.
“At 19:00 in the evening, when I got out of the car in the parking lot, two young men armed with a gun came toward me. I started to run, but they called to me, ‘Rachli, get the watch.’ After me, because in the photographs I saw that they arrived at the building about ten minutes before me,” recalls Yafarah.
Did you manage to identify them?
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“They were wrapped from head to toe, wearing a helmet and wearing gloves. They came ready to commit a robbery. I ran after them and photographed them, so they came back and stole my bag, broke my phone and ran away. I fought them, because they also wanted to steal the ring I had on the hand, but I didn’t allow them.”
What is the value of the watch?
“About half a million shekels”.
Did you call the police?
“I was under pressure, so a relative called the police. The police arrived after an hour and a half, when the robbers had already disappeared from here. They were able to return twice before the police arrived.”