Ilana Rada addresses for the first time the reopening of the Tair Rada murder case: "No body updated us"

Two days after the publication regarding the transfer of the Tair Rada murder case to the Tel Aviv Central Unit (Yamar), mother Ilana says she was not updated on this by any official body. On Friday, it was reported on "Channel 13 News" that the case has effectively been reopened, 20 years after the murder of the girl in Katzrin and five years after Roman Zadorov's release from prison — but the mother was told nothing.

"No official body updated us, I received this news with surprise, from the media," Ilana Rada told ynet before the start of the funeral of Zahava Shaul, mother of Oron Shaul.

She added that she did not contact the police after the report: "It is not simple. I hope there are really things behind this announcement, and I hope that justice will do its work."

Ola Kravchenko (A.K.), a graduate of the "Nofei Golan" high school where Tair Rada was murdered and who was presented in the series "Shadow of Truth" as a possible suspect, addressed the developments on Facebook, including the transfer of the case to a new investigation team, from the Northern District Yamar to the Tel Aviv Yamar. "I hope the new information will lead to the girl's murderer, the family deserves peace after so many years of uncertainty and suffering," she said. According to her, "Many people are writing to me. I am perfectly fine, and I do not think this is related to me. Even if they summon me for questioning, everything is fine, I will simply arrive for questioning as I have every time they summoned me. Ultimately, the investigation file against me was closed for lack of guilt."

In October 2010, Zadorov was convicted for the first time at the Nazareth District Court for the murder of 13-year-old Tair Rada in 2006. About two and a half years later, before the same panel of judges, he was convicted a second time after it was determined that the new evidence presented did not justify his acquittal. His appeal to the Supreme Court was rejected, but in 2021 the Supreme Court ruled that a retrial should be held, at the end of which Zadorov was acquitted of all charges in 2023 by the Nazareth District Court. The head of the panel of judges, Judge Asher Kula, read the verdict and said that there is a "substantial concern that Zadorov's confession was a false confession." He harshly criticized the prosecution: "The accuser failed and did not prove beyond any reasonable doubt that his confession matches the findings at the scene. This is not a sadist and not someone who is subject to uncontrollable fits of rage." After his acquittal, Zadorov said that "the truth finally came to light. I hoped that this would happen. I didn't sleep at night. No one slept." Later, he told the crowd in an excited voice upon leaving the courtroom that "the truth won. I am happy. I told Ilana Rada from the very first moment that I did not kill her daughter."