A pregnant mother in Ashdod was recently stabbed to death following a heated argument with a neighbor early this week. This heinous crime is merely one of the violent fights between residents that call for serious mediation, according to the Jerusalem Post.

According to Ronit Tzur of the Social Services Department, a project is already in the works in order to create a center that would intervene and mediate between neighbors or family members in dispute with each other.

Tzur also adds how in many cases, the root of the arguments are almost always something trivial that the even the arguing parties eventually forget. For instance, the tragedy that resulted to the death of the pregnant woman stemmed from an argument about coffee. Fortunately, the baby in the woman’s womb was saved but the mother eventually died due to the seriousness of her injuries.

This is an example, says Tzur, of a situation that could have been resolved peacefully by simple mediation to avoid such tragic results. This is why Tzur and his team are determinedly constructing the mediation center that will provide cheap mediation services to the residents of the city.

However, experts are claiming that the argument between the pregnant woman and her neighbor probably ran deeper than coffee and no one will be able to tell now if mediation could have really solved the problem.

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