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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

crime in Israel

Sigal Bar Zvi, head of community policing in Israel. (courtesy of Israel Police)
September 19, 2024, 6:35 pm
In parting shot, senior cop warns self-serving leaders are letting criminals run riot
Deputy Commissioner Sigal Bar Zvi assails decision-makers who serve political interests, as well as too-lenient courts and laws that overly protect individual rights
By ToI Staff
Border police officers walk through the market in Ramle a day after a nearby explosion killed four and injured nine others, September 13, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
September 13, 2024, 4:05 pm
Police arrest teen suspect in deadly Ramle blast; 500 cops conduct raids
After 4 killed and 9 injured, residents of Ramle say violence in the city is ‘unbearable;’ local councilman says police unmotivated when it comes to Arab victims of crime
By ToI Staff
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks at a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem on September 3, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 5, 2024, 12:46 pm
As Smotrich holds up funding, some Arab Israeli mayors allege racism
Finance minister’s decision to withhold $55 million for economic development in the Arab sector ‘exacerbating the cycle of poverty and violence,’ says Umm al-Fahm mayor
By Sam Sokol
Illustrative: A police car at the scene of a crime. (lunopark / Shutterstock.com)
August 5, 2024, 6:14 am
Two men shot dead in northern Israel’s Baqa al-Gharbiya
Police investigating circumstances of apparent murder after men found in vehicle parked in a field with gunshot wounds to their bodies
By ToI Staff
Police at the scene of a shooting in the northern town of Kafr Kanna, August 26, 2023. (Flash90)
July 29, 2024, 2:21 pm
3 brothers to be charged with murder of Kafr Kanna resident over business dispute
Investigation reveals the suspects shot Nissim Hamza in May after he ended a business partnership with their father
By ToI Staff
A car is seen in flames in Petah Tikva, after an explosion that police are investigating as a criminal incident, July 18, 2024. (Screen capture via Channel 14; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 18, 2024, 11:16 pm
Car explosion in Petah Tikva wounds two in suspected criminal hit
Police suspect blast was intended to kill third person who’d left the vehicle and was unharmed; bomb disposal personnel remove ‘surviving parts of weaponry’ from car
By ToI Staff
A view of the city Nazareth northern Israel, March 25, 2024. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
July 5, 2024, 10:22 am
Man killed, 2 seriously wounded in Nazareth as Arab crime wave continues to grow
According to Abraham Initiatives NGO, pace of deaths by violent crime in Arab community have now surpassed rate of 2023, the deadliest year on record
By ToI Staff
Police and medical personnel at the scene investigate the murder of a woman in her 30's that was shot dead, in Lod, July 26, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
July 1, 2024, 9:33 am
Man found shot dead in Pardes Hanna in suspected gang killing
Unidentified man, around 30 years old, discovered near cemetery; MDA paramedics pronounce him dead at the scene
By ToI Staff
Itamar Ben Gvir, left, and Bezalel Smotrich at the Knesset on November 21, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 30, 2024, 7:36 pm
Smotrich says Ben Gvir and police ‘have completely failed’ to curb crime among Arabs
‘We must be united and not be dragged into personal attacks,’ police minister responds, decrying ‘attacks from the left and, unfortunately, also from our partners’
By Sam Sokol
Murder and rape suspect Sami Abu Al-Asal, left, in 2023, and right in 2002. (Israel Police)
June 27, 2024, 2:56 pm
After forensic breakthrough, man convicted of murdering woman in Eilat 21 years ago
Sami Abu Al-Asal sentenced to 23 years behind bars, ordered to pay NIS 100,000 in damages for 2003 murder of 21-year-old Margarita Levy
By ToI Staff
Israel Police officers from the Ayalon District Police hold an assessment at the scene of a deadly shooting in Bat Yam, June 25, 2024. (Israel Police)
June 25, 2024, 11:31 pm
Man shot dead in Bat Yam in suspected gangland attack
Shooters flee scene on motorbike; search underway
By ToI Staff
Rabia Araidi (Social media; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
June 13, 2024, 12:50 pm
Son of former Israeli ambassador found decapitated in north
Police say Rabia Araidi, 43, whose father was a Druze author and diplomat, was murdered amid criminal dispute; official says scene recalls ‘photos of Islamic State massacres’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance is seen at Tel Aviv's Hatikvah neighborhood, March 19, 2024. (Magen David Adom)
March 19, 2024, 6:40 pm
Woman found stabbed to death in south Tel Aviv
Suspect arrested, but no motive immediately provided, with police saying all avenues of investigation being examined
By ToI Staff
Police at the murder scene in Yarka where Anan Habish was killed, February 3, 2024. (Israel Police spokesperson)
February 3, 2024, 1:08 pm
Yarka man shot and killed outside his own hummus restaurant
Anan Habish murdered as he opened eatery for business; killing is 11th homicide in Arab community since start of 2024
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Medics at the scene of a suspected murder in Lod, February 23, 2023. (Magen David Adom)
January 5, 2024, 3:22 pm
Woman found dead in north, man shot in Baqa al-Gharbiya
Magen David Adom paramedics pronounce victims dead at scene in 2 separate incidents; police open investigations
By ToI Staff
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