Real estate businessman Eldad Perry was shot near his synagogue - Had debts of INS 500 million

The murder on Friday morning of businessman Eldad Perry, 44, caught the residents of Rehovot by surprise. Some residents were in the middle of a morning run, and others were praying in the synagogue when they suddenly heard the sounds of gunfire. Police are continuing efforts to clarify the circumstances of the murder, with all directions of the investigation still open.
06:10 - Businessman Eldad Perry leaves his house for the neighborhood synagogue located in the Faculty of Agriculture, where he used to pray every morning.
06:17 - Perry stops in the parking lot and gets out of the car. A man on a motorcycle emerges towards him, opens fire - and escapes. Worshipers in the synagogue who heard the shooting quickly went out into the plaza outside the building and noticed fruit lying on the floor.
06:21 - Residents who were on a routine morning run on the outskirts of the neighborhood hear the sounds of gunfire, call the police and report what happened.
06:23 - Police forces arrive at the murder scene outside the synagogue, with passers-by standing around the fruit. When the police arrive, they call the rescue forces.
06:28 - MDA staff arrived at the scene, gave Perry initial medical treatment, but was eventually forced to determine his death. A few hours later, his body was evacuated.
Additional police investigators, who were called to the scene, began collecting testimonies from passers-by and residents. At the same time, forensic investigators began gathering information at the murder scene. Four hours after the murder, investigators at the scene continue to collect findings.
Perry, who is considered a meteor in the real estate world, whose rise and fall was rapid, owned a real estate company that collapsed more than a year ago. Perry is considered an entrepreneur and set up quite a few purchasing groups, which left their customers with losses of hundreds of thousands of shekels. Eldad Perry mixed his personal assets with the companies' assets, and his debt was estimated by the trustees at NIS 330 million.
As for the portfolio of the Eldad Perry Group - the group has huge debts. It was learned that the debt claims submitted to the trustees and have not yet been approved amount to an astronomical amount approaching NIS 3 billion (of course only after the trustees approve or not the debt claims will it be possible to know the final amount of the group's debts).
Regarding the question of what will happen to the 2,000 members of the group's purchasing groups in light of Perry's death, Adv. Gonen Kastenbaum, one of the group's trustees, said today that "Perry's death should not affect the situation of members of purchasing groups. Perry has not been involved in the group since he was appointed loyal to the group.
In Perry's absence, attorneys Shai Glickman and Shlomo Ness stated that "in the conversations we had with him in recent days, he did not convey distress or that he was threatened in any way. Perry came to our office due to the crisis that befell his business. We met a very talented and smart real estate entrepreneur, who most of all, it was important for him to settle his debts with the apartment buyers and creditors while promoting and completing the projects and delivering apartments to the buyers.
"The insolvency process progressed as Eldad fully cooperated with the officials appointed to the company, even personally and worked day and night to bring an arrangement that would cover the debts to the creditors. We received with astonishment the hard news of his murder. We send our condolences to his family and children."
Advocate Erez Hever, a trustee for Eldad Perry's assets, who was appointed by a court in bankruptcy proceedings in which Perry was present, was also shocked to hear of his death this morning. He did not stop looking for a way to repay his debts. He cooperated with me as an absolute trustee. He was happy that he was able to formulate a creditors' settlement. "
In a report submitted by the Perry Group's trustees just four days ago, they wrote that "as is well known, the main activity sector and the heart of the problem of insolvency and the victims of the Perry Group concerns the purchasing groups. There are about 12 purchasing groups that concern hundreds of home and property buyers who have invested the bulk of their capital in transactions, as well as their hopes and future. The trustee for the purchasing groups is promoted by the trustees through an outline for the rehabilitation of each and every project. "
In the report, the trustees stated that “when examining the financial condition of the projects, it becomes clear that the members of the purchasing groups will be required to add significant sums, beyond the final price promised to them, in order to sustain the project and get their apartment. However, part of the risk is mitigated when comparing the effective price that each group member will pay for his apartment, in the end, in relation to the real apartment price on the market today. "
Finally, the trustees argued in the report that since a court order was opened by the court, “substantial progress has been made and in a significant proportion of the projects members of the purchasing groups already see the‘ light at the end of the tunnel ’. The trustees under the supervision of a court work tirelessly to advance the rehabilitation process. "