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Ilustrative: A man withdraws cash from an ATM machine at Bank of Palestine in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on May 15, 2018. (Said Khatib/AFP)
May 4, 2024, 1:52 pm
Armed Gazan gangs, some thought tied to Hamas, steal $70 million from Bank of Palestine
French daily Le Monde reports funds taken from the vaults of several branches in the Strip by groups armed with explosives, commandos who answer to ‘Gaza’s highest authorities’
By AFP
A man, left, uses an ATM to withdraw money, as security stand guard outside A Bank Audi branch, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, September 26, 2022. (AP/Bilal Hussein)
October 4, 2022, 4:02 pm
At least 3 banks held up across Lebanon in one day, as rage mounts over cash limits
Raids reflect public anger at failure to reform economy; worst crisis in 100 years has plunged three-quarters of population into poverty
By Kareem Chehayeb
Lebanese security forces are deployed as people gather outside the Blom Bank branch in the capital Beirut's Tariq al-Jdideh neighborhood on September 16, 2022, to express their support to a depositor, who stormed the bank demanding to withdraw his frozen savings. (Ibrahim AMRO/AFP)
September 16, 2022, 4:24 pm
Lebanon sees wave of bank heists as desperate citizens try to claim frozen savings
Robberies are seen as acts of distress and garner widespread sympathy from public amid country’s worst-ever financial crisis
By AFP
The glass facade of a bank in the Lebanese capital Beirut is broken, after a woman stormed it demanding access to her sister's deposits to allegedly pay for her hospital fees, on September 14, 2022. (Anwar Amro/AFP)
September 14, 2022, 6:36 pm
In crisis-hit Lebanon, woman robs bank for own savings to treat sister’s cancer
Many cheer Sali Hafiz, who says she used toy gun to take $13,000 of her family’s deposits before escaping
By Hashem Osseiran
Members of the Lebanese army surround protesters gathering outside a bank during continuing anti-corruption demonstrations on November 4, 2019 in south Lebanon's capital Sidon. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)
January 27, 2022, 11:54 am
Lebanese cafe owner hailed for robbing bank to get his own money
Abdallah Assaii arrested after holding seven bank employees hostage, dousing them in gasoline and threatening to set them on fire unless provided with $50,000 from his account
By ToI Staff
Avocados. (Yosef Silver, This American Bite)
June 6, 2019, 4:08 pm
Israeli ex-con holds up two banks armed with an avocado
Suspect caught after stealing tens of thousands of shekels from Beersheba banks by threatening to ‘blow up’ a painted avocado
By ToI Staff
A soap bubble gun and syringe allegedly used by a Jordanian citizen to hold up an Israeli postal bank in January 2019. (Israel Police)
February 7, 2019, 3:34 pm
Jordanian living illegally in Israel held for bubble gun bank heist
Suspect fitted toy with a syringe he claimed contained blood contaminated with AIDS, threatened clerks he would infect them if they didn’t hand over the money
By Stuart Winer
Gabi Korsonsky (Hadashot news screenshot)
April 26, 2018, 3:35 pm
Bank robber gets life in prison for slaying of security guard
Gabi Korsonsky, 35, who killed Yaniv Engler in 2011, gets additional 18 years for 14 bank robberies and a string of lesser crimes
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Israel Police officers at a crime scene, November 14, 2016 in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 23, 2017, 2:14 pm
Zichron Yaakov bank robber shot during police chase
Man, 28, hospitalized in serious condition after turning on officer with a knife, police say
By ToI Staff
An abandoned van used in a bank robbery that belongs to the Kosher Miami bakery Zak the Baker. (Screen capture: YouTube)
July 10, 2017, 9:14 pm
Kosher bakery van used in Miami bank heist
Local police pull over all vans belonging to Zak the Baker while trying to locate getaway ride
By JTA
Kabul, Israel (CC-BY SA Ariel Palmon/Wikpedia)
October 14, 2016, 10:48 am
Security guard wounded in Galilee bank robbery
Police searching for culprits who stole money at gunpoint, shot guard as they fled the scene
By ToI Staff
Israel's 'polite' bank robber, as shown on Channel 2, April 20, 2015 (Channel 2 screenshot)
April 20, 2015, 6:15 pm
‘Polite’ bank robber strikes 8 times
Police appeal for public’s help in tracking down a very civilized thief
By ToI Staff
A screen capture of Swiss police securing the perimeter around Bank Mizrahi-Tefahot in Zurich after a failed robbery attempt on December 24, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube)
December 24, 2014, 10:31 pm
Police foil robbery of Israeli bank in Switzerland
Thief escapes scene of the crime empty handed as special forces close in on heist in Zurich
By ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of a bank branch. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
December 11, 2014, 9:31 am
Tweens nabbed for trying to rob bank
12- and 13-year-old boys flee Rishon Lezion branch empty-handed after holding up teller with possibly fake M-16 rifles
By ToI Staff
Rony Leibowitz, the one and only Ofnobank (photo credit: Yasminmerhav/CC-BY-SA-3.0 via Wikimedia Commons)
March 24, 2014, 9:36 pm
Biker bandit signs on to hawk motorcycles
A bank robber who pulled off 21 heists is hired to pitch his signature getaway vehicle
By Jessica Steinberg
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