Hagai Felician case Following a police investigation lasting nearly four years, three suspects were arrested. Their arrests were announced on 5 June 2013. A
gag order was placed on the details of the investigation. The three suspects, all residents of
Pardes Katz, a neighborhood in
Bnei Brak, ranged in ages from 20 to 40. It was later announced that a prominent activist in the Israeli LGBT community had also been detained for questioning. The
Jerusalem Post reported that the shooting was planned by two young men, one of whom believed his teenaged relative had been abused by an activist at the Bar-Noar center. After the shooting, the gunman and his accomplice fled into Tel Aviv. The pistol (a
Tanfoglio 9mm) used by the killer was found by hikers in December 2012 and the suspects were arrested some months later. On June 11, the gag order was officially lifted. According to police, a few months before the killings, one of the suspects, then 15 years old, came to Bar-Noar struggling with his sexual identity. There he met with a veteran Bar-Noar figure, the fourth person to be arrested in the case. Hagai Felician, the teenager's relative, became aware that the teen had been seen a few times at Bar-Noar, and asked him what he was doing there. The teenager confirmed he had been going there, and that he was
raped by the senior figure at the club. Felician allegedly decided to take matters into his own hands, and together with another suspect, Tarlan Hankishayev, and the state's witness, plotted to harm the activist. On the day of the shooting, Felician allegedly came to Bar-Noar looking for the activist. Unable to find him, Felician "lost it" and shot those present. On 23 June 2013, charges were dropped against the other two suspects. On 10 July 2013, Hagai Felician was indicted on two counts of murder. In February 2014, the prosecution's case against Hagai Felician collapsed after new information was uncovered that suggested that the state witness around whose testimony the case had been built had lied. Subsequently, the witness, who was identified in media reports as "Z" due to his identity being under gag order, was arrested on charges of fabricating evidence. On the 26th of February, Felician was released, although he was remanded to house arrest until April 2. On March 9, 2014, all charges against Felician were dropped.
Yaakov Felician rape case On 24 June 2013, it was cleared for publication that Felician's brother, Yaakov, had been arrested on rape charges, and was suspected of raping a female attorney who had applied to serve as part of Hagai's defense team. Under police interrogation, Yaakov Felician claimed that the attorney had only filed a rape complaint after he did not hire her to serve on his brother's defense team. He was released to
house arrest after a
polygraph test reportedly claimed he was being truthful, although polygraphs are widely considered pseudoscientific and cannot be used to determine truthfulness of statements. ==Reaction==