Arab Israeli jihadists

Illustrative photo of men holding up an Islamic State flag. (AFP/Tauseef Mustafa)

April 5, 2019, 4:42 pm

Israeli Islamic State fighter stripped of citizenship in absentia

Interior minister revokes Abdallah Hajleh’s citizenship at Shin Bet’s recommendation, seeks court order to keep him from entering country

By TOI staff

People watch a paraglider near the Golan Heights in 2009. (Matanya Tausig/Flash 90)

December 27, 2018, 7:23 pm

Arab Israeli who glided into Syria to join Islamic State jailed for 3.5 years

Nidal Salah, 26, convicted in plea deal for illegally leaving the country, giving info to terror group; he returned to Israel in June and was arrested

By TOI staff

Illustrative: A paraglider flies over northern Israel on February 18, 2017. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

July 18, 2018, 12:41 pm

Arab Israeli who glided into Syria to join Islamic State flies home, is arrested

Nidal Salah returned to Israel last month, knowing he would face charges for joining the terrorist group three years ago

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers checking Palestinian cars at a checkpoint in the West Bank village of Yatta, near Hebron, February 10, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

July 8, 2018, 2:36 pm

Arab Israeli sentenced to 8 years for plotting to attack soldiers

Firas al-Omari, 46, was convicted of joining Hamas and planning a terror attack in the Negev to avenge the outlawing of Northern Branch of Islamic Movement

By Michael Bachner

Muhammad Shinawi, accused of murder and attempted murder for three shooting attacks in the northern port city of Haifa on January 3, 2017. (Social media)

June 5, 2018, 4:07 pm

Arab Israeli convicted of deadly 2017 terror shootings in Haifa

Muhammad Shinawi, 22, who killed an Israeli man and seriously wounded another 18 months ago, confesses to all charges in indictment

By Michael Bachner

Valentin Vladmir Mazlevski, a Belarusian-Israeli man charged with attempting to join Islamic State in Syria and Sinai, in a Nazareth District Court, on March 1, 2017. (Screen capture: Channel 10)

February 26, 2018, 9:45 pm

Jewish convert to Islam jailed over plan to join IS

Belarusian immigrant and ex-IDF soldier Valentin Mazlevski sentenced to 38 months for failed attempt to become member of terror group in Syria, Sinai

By AFP and TOI staff

Amir Abdel Hakim Jabara, left, and Ibrahim Abdel Halim Sheikh Yusuf, right, alleged members of an Islamic State terror cell in the Arab Israeli village of Tayibe. (Shin Bet)

January 1, 2018, 3:12 pm

Islamists sentenced for trying to prevent concert with arson attack

Arab Israeli residents of Tayibe confessed that performance offended their extremist Islamic religious views

By TOI staff

Wissam Zabidat, convicted of joining Islamic State together with his wife, is seen at the Haifa District Court on October 19., 2017. (Flash90)

October 19, 2017, 4:40 pm

Israeli Arab man jailed for 6 years for joining Islamic State

Wissam Zabidat, who moved his family to Iraq in 2015, handed harshest sentence ever imposed on members of jihadist group in Israel

By Tamar Pileggi

Border Police officers walk on the Temple Mount after a shooting attack in the area left three people injured, two of them seriously, on July 14, 2017. (Israel Police)

July 14, 2017, 11:48 am

Police chief confirms two officers killed in Temple Mount shooting

Shin Bet identifies terrorists, shot dead during attack, as Arab Israelis from the city of Umm al-Fahm; all three share the same name: Muhammad Jabarin

By Judah Ari Gross

A handout photo of Mohammad Ahmad Azzam, the Kfar Manda resident who was arrested on June 6, 2017 on suspicion of seeking to join the Islamic State jihadist group. (Shin Bet Security Service)

June 25, 2017, 4:14 pm

Israeli Arab man indicted for attempting to join Islamic State

Muhammad Azzam, 24, of the Galilee town of Kafr Manda, allegedly contacted jihadists abroad, prepared to join them

By TOI staff

Members of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), made up of an alliance of Arab and Kurdish fighters, stand under an Islamic State (IS) banner in the recently recaptured Syrian town of Al-Karamah, as they advance to encircle the jihadists' stronghold on Raqqa, on March 26, 2017. (AFP Photo/Delil Souleiman)

June 12, 2017, 5:53 pm

Shin Bet busts Arab Israeli teens for allegedly supporting IS

Teenagers suspected of making bomb after swearing allegiance to terror group’s leader, reportedly considered joining its ranks abroad

By Judah Ari Gross

Anas Haj Yihya, a 35-year-old Arab Israeli man accused of planning to carry out terror attacks in Israel on behalf of the Islamic State. (Shin Bet)

February 20, 2017, 4:27 pm

Arab Israeli charged with planning TA bus bombing, teaching IS how to make nerve gas

Anas Haj Yihya allegedly intended to blow up bus full of soldiers on Dizengoff Street on behalf of Islamic State

By Judah Ari Gross

Muhammad Omar Bader Hassan, left, and his cousin, Ahmad Talal Ahmad Saidah, found guilty of supporting and attempting to join the Islamic State, as well as planning to carry out terror attacks within Israel (Courtesy Shin Bet)

November 14, 2016, 7:08 pm

Israeli cousins jailed for supporting IS, planning attack

Nazareth court hands defendants sentences of 30 and 36 months after they confess to attempt to join terror group in Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

Hakim Jabara, whose son Amir is suspected of working for Islamic State, speaks to Ynet on October 14, 2016 (screen capture: Ynet)

October 15, 2016, 7:58 am

Father of Israeli IS suspect rejects ‘inconceivable’ accusations

Amir Jabara among 3 men from northern town of Tayibe indicted for attempted arson, trying to dig tunnel to West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross

October 13, 2016, 6:24 pm

Israeli trio accused of joining IS, burning stadium to halt concert

Three men from northern town of Tayibe also attempted to dig smuggling tunnel to West Bank, but made little headway, Shin Bet charges

By Judah Ari Gross