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View of the security fence surrounding the Gaza Strip from Israel. (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)
2 armed Gazans cross into Israel, are arrested
By Judah Ari Gross
Suspects enter Israeli territory from southern Strip with grenade, knife; are picked up after getting past security fence
The entrance to the settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank (photo credit: Flash90/File)
Inside storyYitzhar settlement viewed as epicenter of surge in ‘price tag’ attacks
By Jacob Magid
One of the suspects arrested in connection with the Dawabsha murder, December 3, 2015. Under a court-issued gag order, the identities of the suspects cannot be revealed. (Screen capture)
March 6, 2018, 3:28 pm
The Shin Bet’s flawed interrogation methods
Israel's security services are blundering too often with both Arab as well as Jewish suspects
By Ari Z. Zivotofsky
Border Police officers stand guard next to the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, July 27, 2017. (AP /Mahmoud Illean)
February 26, 2018, 4:55 pm
Two Arab Israelis charged with plotting IS-inspired attack on Temple Mount
Terror suspects also indicted for not reporting another cell's plans to carry out a shooting attack on the Jerusalem holy site in September, which was nevertheless thwarted
By Judah Ari Gross
Muhammad Ali Ibrahim al-Askara (R) and Awad Mahmoud al-Asakra (R), two suspected members of a Palestinian Islamic Jihad-linked terrorist cell that was plotting to assassinate Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman. (courtesy Shin Bet)
February 18, 2018, 12:04 pm
Shin Bet says it thwarted plot to assassinate defense minister
Agency says Palestinian Islamic Jihad-linked cell members sought to kill Avigdor Liberman with roadside IED, were motivated by PA benefits to terrorists
By Tamar Pileggi
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh during a January 2012 meeting in Istanbul. (Mohammed al-Ostaz/ Flash 90)
February 13, 2018, 8:49 pm
Turkey denies Israeli accusation it provides military aid to Hamas
Ankara says allegation by Shin Bet 'incompatible with reality and lacking in seriousness'
By AFP and TOI staff
Illustrative photo of a sign along the Israel-Lebanon border. (photo credit: Doron Horowitz/Flash90)
February 13, 2018, 9:05 am
IDF returns to Lebanon mentally ill man who crossed border
Infiltrator told security forces Hezbollah members threatened to have him institutionalized if he didn't enter Israel
By Judah Ari Gross
The Lebanese-Israeli border near kibbutz Hanita on March 22, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
February 12, 2018, 11:00 pm
IDF: Hezbollah members forced mentally ill Lebanese man into entering Israel
Infiltrator, who was picked up immediately after scaling security fence, also reportedly crossed border last year
By Judah Ari Gross
Dara'am Jabarin (L) and Zaher Jabarin,the former was arrested in January 2018 after being recruited by the latter to funnel money into the Hamas terrorist group. (Shin Bet)
February 12, 2018, 5:11 pm
Shin Bet accuses Turkey of allowing Hamas to raise, launder money
Allegations follow arrest of Turkish citizen, Arab Israeli man, who the security service says were recruited by the terror group's top money-man
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: Youth aligned with the settler movement burning tires in Jerusalem in 2012 to protest an outpost demolition. (Abir Sultan/ Flash90)
February 7, 2018, 10:01 pm
Shin Bet holding ‘gentle’ talks with far-rightists to head off revenge attacks
Defense official says not especially concerned about Jewish extremists retaliating following terror attacks that killed Raziel Shevach and Itamar Ben-Gal
By Jacob Magid
Yesh Atid MK Yaakov Peri, a former head of the Shin Bet (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)
February 7, 2018, 5:02 pm
Yesh Atid MK Peri steps down amid misconduct allegations
Former Shin Bet chief says report he leaked intel on wiretaps to Aryeh Deri during 1990s police probe 'casting a heavy shadow on my long years of service'
By Raoul Wootliff
Diab Kahmouz (center) is seen beyond a glass barrier during a court appearance (Channel 10 news)
February 7, 2018, 2:07 am
Arab Israeli who planned terror attacks for Hezbollah gets 14 years in prison
Diab Kahmouz led a cell that obtained bombs from the Lebanese terror group, planned to target soldiers at bus stop
By TOI staff
Right-wing activists attend a protest in Tel Aviv, staging alleged torture by the Shin Bet against Jewish terror suspects (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 1, 2018, 8:51 am
In first, Israel opens brutality probe against Shin Bet interrogator
Investigation ordered by Justice Ministry 18 years after establishing unit to deal with complaints against security agency
By JTA
A mural in Gaza City in 2012 shows (left) Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, killed by Israel in a March 2004 missile strike, and PLO chief Yasser Arafat, who died of a mysterious illness in November of the same year (Wissam Nassar/Flash90)
January 26, 2018, 9:46 am
How Israel’s leaders use targeted killings to try to ‘stop history’
Ronen Bergman, author of 'Rise and Kill First,' a revelatory history of Israeli strikes on individual enemies, dissects his discoveries and their often discomfiting implications
By David Horovitz
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman addresses a memorial ceremony for Israeli navy soldiers who died in the Dakar Submarine that went missing in 1968, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on January 16, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 19, 2018, 3:16 pm
Liberman: Escaped terrorist ‘living like a fleeing dog on borrowed time’
Defense Minister says Hamas can't lament Gaza's poverty while carrying out attacks in West Bank and building infrastructure in South Lebanon
By Jacob Magid
Ahmad Nassar Jarrar, 22, head of the terror cell who shot dead Rabbi Raziel Shevach in the West Bank on January 9 (Twitter)
January 19, 2018, 8:50 am
Leader of terror cell that killed rabbi said still at large after Jenin raid
Initially reported dead in Jenin firefight, Ahmad Nassar Jarrar, 22, said to be on the run; older terror suspect with similar name said killed
By TOI staff and Dov Lieber
Yaakov Peri (left) and Yair Lapid at the Knesset (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 14, 2018, 4:31 pm
Lapid signals he won’t seek ouster of MK accused of Shin Bet leaks
During 1990s police probe into Aryeh Deri, ex-head of domestic security agency Yaakov Peri allegedly handed over intel on wiretaps to embattled interior minister
By Marissa Newman
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