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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 620

Department of Internal Police Investigations DIPI

Likud MK Moshe Saada leads a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset on May 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 20, 2025, 2:18 pm
Likud MK revives bill handing justice minister control over probes into cops, prosecutors
Sponsor Moshe Saada says bill aims to ‘watch the watchmen’; opposition lawmakers, legal professionals say legislation part of coalition efforts to politicize law enforcement bodies
By Charlie Summers
File - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with the architects of the proposed judicial overhaul, Justice Minister Yariv Levin and MK Simcha Rothman (standing) in the Knesset on February 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 7, 2025, 10:39 am
Knesset summer session to focus on Haredi draft, efforts to curb public media
Bills under discussion would shutter Kan broadcaster, split the attorney general’s position into two, and impose 80% tax on foreign donations to nonprofits
By Sam Sokol
Illustrative: A police car at the scene of a crime. (Israel Police)
April 30, 2025, 8:43 am
7-month-old baby dies; family blames police search of their settlement home
Family says officers threw items into playpen where baby was sleeping during their sweep of Givat Ze’ev house; police deny claims, but 4 officers questioned in internal probe
By Michael Horovitz
The Police Internal Investigations Department in Jerusalem, photographed on July 8, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)
April 16, 2025, 6:20 pm
Shin Bet official detained over classified leak released to house arrest
Court rejects authorities’ request that the suspect be held at home for 30 days, deciding instead on just seven; bureaucratic slip-up means he won’t be supervised
By ToI Staff
Left to right: Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet security service, attends a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 5, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Tel Aviv District Court for testimony in the corruption trial against him, April 9, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90); Journalist Amit Segal at a Conference of the "Besheva" group in Jerusalem, on February 24, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir during a display of weapons seized during police operations, in Beit Shemesh, April 9, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 15, 2025, 3:30 pm
Shin Bet official detained for classified intel leak; coalition fumes over ‘deep state’ probe
‘Aleph’ suspected of leaking info on probe into Kahanism in police force under Ben Gvir; his lawyer says he shared Oct. 7-related material; PM shares post claiming Bar, Baharav-Miara turned agency into ‘militia’
By ToI Staff
The Police Internal Investigations Department in Jerusalem, photographed on July 8, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)
April 14, 2025, 10:03 pm
New national security affair being probed; details barred from publication
Reports say affair will increase already bubbling tensions between political echelon and law enforcement agencies; separately, Shin Bet chief Bar said set to resign in coming weeks
By ToI Staff
Hadera police station commander, Chief Superintendent Amit Pollak, seen after a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, April 1, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 3, 2025, 8:17 pm
Wife of cop under probe arrested after saying she threw his phone into the sea
Shlomit Pollak detained and ordered to house arrest for allegedly destroying evidence, as DIPI looks into Ben Gvir-backed officer accused of assaulting protesters
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Keren Aivas (left), whose son Niv (right) was shot dead on October 8, 2023, when security forces misidentified him as a terrorist, in a report broadcast by Channel 12 news on February 6, 2025. (Screen captures: Channel 12, social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 7, 2025, 3:17 pm
Shot 400 times: Mom of man killed in error on Oct. 8 says probe riddled with insensitivity
Israeli troops fired 400 rounds at Niv Aivas, mistaking him for a terrorist; after finally meeting officials, bereaved parents got letter addressed to son saying probe into ‘his’ complaint is closed
By ToI Staff
Head of the Judea and Samaria Police District's investigations and intelligence department Commander Avishai Muallem arrives at the Department for Internal Police Investigations in Jerusalem, February 4, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 4, 2025, 6:38 pm
Senior cops, Ben Gvir aide questioned in alleged mishandling of Jewish W. Bank attacks
Officials suspect Commander Avishai Muallem avoided investigating violence to curry favor with far-right former national security minister
By ToI Staff
Then-National Security minister Itamar Ben Gvir and his chief of staff Chanamel Dorfman attend a committee meeting at the Knesset on November 27, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 3, 2025, 11:19 pm
Investigators summon close Ben Gvir associates in probe into top West Bank cop
Internal affairs weighs investigation of former Ben Gvir aide Chanamel Dorfman for potential role as a go-between for far-right former police minister and corrupt cops
By Charlie Summers
Police use stun grenades during a demonstration against the government's controversial justice reform bill, in Tel Aviv on March 1, 2023. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
January 28, 2025, 5:38 pm
Cops threw stun grenades straight into crowd in 2023 protest, bodycam footage shows
Tel Aviv police used excessive force against anti-government demonstrators to please Ben Gvir, according to report; 2 protesters required surgery after direct hits
By Charlie Summers
Israel Prisons Chief Commissioner Kobi Yaakobi attends the first committee meeting for creating a new national guard, held at the National Security Ministry in Jerusalem, on June 7, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 12, 2025, 4:23 pm
Prisons chief sabotaged investigation into West Bank cop, says police-probing unit
AG’s office said to mull charging Kobi Yaakobi with obstructing probe into senior officer who allegedly ignored settler attacks in hopes of pleasing Minister Ben Gvir
By ToI Staff
Head of the Judea and Samaria Police District's investigations and intelligence department Commander Avishai Muallem arrives at the Department for Internal Police Investigations in Jerusalem, December 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 2, 2025, 12:29 pm
Senior cop accused of papering over settler attacks arrested again for alleged tampering
Avishai Muallem, being probed for sham investigations of Jewish nationalistic crimes to please Ben Gvir, held for attempts to remove materials from police system
By Jeremy Sharon
Arwah Sheikh Ali after his arrest, August 20, 2023. (Courtesy)
January 1, 2025, 9:58 am
Four Border Police officers charged in beating of Palestinian suspect
3 of the cops also indicted for destroying evidence after allegedly deleting bodycam footage; case made headlines over accusation suspect was branded with Star of David
By ToI Staff
Head of the Judea and Samaria Police District investigations and intelligence department Commander Avishai Muallem (center) arrives for a hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, December 5, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
December 31, 2024, 3:56 pm
Senior cop suspected of ignoring Jewish attacks in West Bank to win Ben Gvir’s favor
Internal police investigations unit says it suspects Commander Avishai Muallem ‘deviated from the line’ in bid for promotion
By Jeremy Sharon
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