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Crime in Israel


The latest news on crime and crime rates in Israel.

 Police at scene of stabbing attack in Florentine, Tel Aviv, January 18, 2025.

Israel Police launches nationwide crackdown on Arab sector criminal activity

A protest display set up in Kfar Saba featured figures of three terrorists in the trunk of a white pickup truck, resembling the October 7 Hamas infiltration into southern Israeli communities.

Israel Police to investigate terrorist display planted in pickup truck

By Hodaya Ran
 View of the Gilboa Prison December 5, 2022.

Gilboa prison guards demand terrorist who sexually assaulted them to be deported

 Israeli singer Moshiko Mor, charged with sexual assault and rape arrive for a court hearing in Lod, on January 14, 2025.

Israeli singer Moshiko Mor indicted for rape, sodomy rape

 Israel Police arresting illegal migrants in a series of raids across the country, January 12, 2024.

Police arrest over 30 illegal migrants, six car thieves across the country in weekend raids

Are ransomware attacks going to continue to rise? Worrying trends indicate that they may.

US waits for extradition of Russian-Israeli national as part of LockBit Ransomware arrests

 Sunflower Association Center in Jisr az-Zarqa

Orphaned by violence: Amna Aash’s journey with the Sunflower Association

 A woman wrapped in an Israel flag stands outside the place where mayor of Amsterdam Femke Halsema attends a press conference following the violence targeting fans of an Israeli soccer team, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 8, 2024.

Violence reports drop during Israel-Hamas War, experts warn of post-war surge

 Israeli soldiers stand while stationed outside a Palestinian shop in Huwara, Israeli-occupied West Bank, May 26, 2022.

Police, soldiers among nine arrested for kidnapping, assaulting Palestinian

By EFRAT FORSHER
 A PROTEST against the sexual violence committed in the October 7 massacre – and the international silence afterward – takes place outside UN Headquarters in New York City earlier this month.

Rape crisis centers get 55,000 complaints in 2023

Handcuffs arrest police crime illustrative 390

The castle has crumbled: The life of Yitzhak Abergil

By Walla!
Israeli prison service response unit seen during an operation where Nukhba terrorists (a Hamas unit) being held, at a prison in central Israel, August 28, 2024

Israel Police detain 15 for suspected gang-rape of 15-year-old girl in North

 Grindr, same-sex dating app, shown on a phone screen

Former police officer indicted for sexual act against two minors

Objects found in the custody of a resident in Umm al-Fahm who swore allegiance to ISIS.

Israel indicts Umm el-Fahm resident who pledged allegiance to ISIS

 SECURITY FORCES arrive at the scene of a stabbing attack in Jerusalem, last month. Contrary to a narrative popularly pushed by Western leaders and the media, Palestinian terrorism isn’t just conducted by the extremists in Palestinian society, the writer argues. (20/4/2024)

Can Israel tackle internal terror threats rising across the country?

IDF operates in the West Bank on Sunday, October 20, 2024.

Over 35 suspects arrested in the last week in West Bank sweep

Night club silhouette.

Tel Aviv BDSM community leaders arrested following allegations of rape, torture

THE GUERLAIN SPA, named for the French-style luxury brand of cosmetics, oils and wellness massage treatments.

Jerusalem resident posing as a masseur is suspected of sexual misconduct Nova survivor

Israel Police at the scene of an explosion in southern Tel Aviv, August 18, 2024.

Police arrest two Hadera residents for allegedly attempting assassination of intelligence target

By SHLOMI GABAI
 THE LAST major natural disaster Israel faced was the Carmel Forest fire in 2010, which claimed 44 lives, forced the evacuation of some 17,000 people, and resulted in the burning of nearly 25 sq. km., including several million trees.

Police arrest doctor from Haifa for allegedly starting wave of forest fires in the Carmel

By YOAV ETIEL
 Underground cannabis cultivation tunnel with approximately 600 plants.

Police uncovers underground cannabis cultivation tunnel worth over NIS 1 million

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