Israeli security forces said on Sunday they had arrested two Palestinians after the murder last week of an Israeli man, labelling it a “terrorist attack”.
The arrests were made on October 5, but the investigation has been under a gag order and the motive for the killing had remained unclear.
Reuven Schmerling, 70, was found dead on Wednesday in a building he owned in the Arab Israeli city of Kafr Qasem, with media reports saying he had been either beaten or stabbed.
Schmerling lived in the nearby Israeli settlement of Elkana in the occupied West Bank.
The Shin Bet domestic security agency issued a statement on Sunday saying “evidence gathered thus far... Indicates that this was a terrorist attack”.