Four arrested as police zero in on brawl before Eldar Dayan’s death

Four additional suspects have been arrested in connection with the death of 23-year-old Eldar Dayan, whose body was found three weeks after his disappearance. Police are focusing on a violent brawl near the Yarkon River in Petah Tikva, where Dayan and his friends confronted another group. Investigators suspect Dayan suffered fatal head injuries during the fight, possibly from kicks, which may have led to his death. The four men were part of a five-person group involved in the altercation; the fifth remains at large. This development widens the investigation, which began as a missing-person case and later became a murder probe, following the earlier arrests of two friends who were with Dayan the night he disappeared.