Police

June 21, 2018, 6:42 pm

Police to begin using high-tech, tamper-proof body cams

8,000 officers will be issued cameras; pilot program finds 35% drop in public complaints against cops using the equipment

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

April 16, 2018, 2:49 pm

Palestinian convicted of manslaughter in Israeli farmer’s death

Prosecutors fail to convince court of murder charges; family of David Bar-Kapara maintains his killing in 2015 was a terror attack, but authorities say it was a botched robbery

By Michael Bachner

Chief of Police Roni Alsheich seen with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a welcoming ceremony held in Alsheich's honour, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 3, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

February 9, 2018, 9:40 am

Straight outta Balfour Street

Scandal-hounded Netanyahu is seen by some papers as orchestrating a concerted campaign to counter the police chief's claim of illegal harassment of investigators

By Joshua Davidovich

January 6, 2018, 12:17 am

This black Jewish man says he was almost shot while buying conditioner

In Twitter posts, Ben Faulding describes being confronted by two armed NY officers after store cashier reported to police he was shoplifting

By Ben Sales

Michael Hamill and two other Florida police officers. (Gainesville Police Department /Facebook)

January 1, 2018, 1:03 am

Florida cop resigns amid investigation over his anti-Semitic Facebook posts

Offensive messages discovered after Gainsville Police Department posted a picture of the officer helping the community in the wake of the Hurricane Irma

By JTA

Wichita police investigate a call of a possible hostage situation near the corner of McCormick and Seneca in Wichita, Kansas on December 28, 2017. (Fernando Salazar/The Wichita Eagle via AP)

December 30, 2017, 5:58 pm

Kansas police say prank led to killing of unarmed man

Authorities say hoax call was case of 'swatting,' in which a person makes up a false report to get a SWAT team to descend on an address

By Heather Hollingsworth and JIM SALTER

Nassim Ouadi, a 33-year-old French-Algerian, who, together with his 44-year-old Tunisian girlfriend, has been sentenced to prison after allegedly been found kissing in the car near the Tunisian capital, October 8, 2017. (Screen capture)

October 19, 2017, 4:58 pm

Tunisia jails couple for ‘public indecency’ over car canoodling

Pair deny they were kissing, as judicial spokesperson says they were arrested for being naked; defense slams flaws in case

By AFP

The leaders of the Interpol General Assembly posing at the Beijing National Convention Center, Sept. 26, 2017. (Lintao Zhang/Pool/Getty Images)

September 27, 2017, 11:52 am

In blow to Israel, Interpol admits Palestine as full member

75 of 133 voting member states back Ramallah's membership bid in secret ballot, despite vociferous Israeli and US objections

By Raphael Ahren

September 17, 2017, 11:45 pm

‘Hot cop’ from Hurricane Irma selfie suspended over anti-Semitic Facebook posts

Offensive messages discovered after Police Department posted a picture of the cop helping the community in the wake of the disaster

By JTA

August 30, 2017, 11:54 pm

Miami police searching for man who threatened to shoot up synagogue

Authorities ask public's help in locating Steven H. Brooks, who has trespassed twice at Beit David Highland Lakes Shul

By JTA

Menny Naftali center, and Eldad Yaniv, far right, main organizers of a weekly protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in front of the home of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit in Petah Tikva, August 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

August 27, 2017, 1:39 pm

Protesting the protesters

The people who rallied against Benjamin Netanyahu in Petah Tikva Saturday night are labeled in the press as lawbreakers or just lazy at activism

By Joshua Davidovich

In this Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017 photo, DeAndre Harris, bottom is assaulted in a parking garage beside the Charlottesville police station after a white nationalist rally was disbursed by police, in Charlottesville, Va. (Zach D. Roberts via AP)

August 27, 2017, 9:46 am

Police arrest two white supremacists involved in Charlottesville violence

Warrant issued for third far-right protester, a Puerto Rican who said he attended the rally because he despises leftists

By TOI staff and AP

Protesters at 'dueling rallies' on the Boston Common, August 19, 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

August 20, 2017, 4:20 am

In Boston, concerned Jews gather in prayer and protest against bigotry

An interfaith vigil and well-publicized 'dueling rallies' draw thousands of Jews to denounce racism and anti-Semitism in America's Cradle of Liberty

By Matt Lebovic

Illustrative photo of a Muslim woman adjusting her hijab. (AP/M. Spencer Green, File)

August 11, 2017, 10:19 pm

Payout for US Muslim woman whose hijab was removed by police

Kirsty Powell to be awarded $85,000 for 'deeply traumatizing' incident which occurred before male officers and inmates

By AFP

A rededication ceremony at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, following an act of vandalism, July 11, 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

July 12, 2017, 12:16 pm

Boston Holocaust memorial rededicated after vandalism

After one of the Shoah memorial's glass towers was shattered last month, community leaders gather to unveil repairs and praise Boston's response to the incident

By Matt Lebovic