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Israeli security and rescue forces evacuate injured people near the site where suspected unexploded ordnance detonated during a school trip, killing a teenage student and injuring 19 others near Kibbutz Yiftah in the Ramim Ridge area, close to the Israeli border with Lebanon, October 12, 2026. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
Emanuel Fabian
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Emanuel Fabian
Deadly blast on school trip exposes lurking explosive threat after years of war
Despite concerns around unexploded ordnance left across country after missiles stopped flying, questions remain over who's responsible for clearance and whether public awareness has been sufficiently raised
Left: President Isaac Herzog speaks to the media during a visit to the Nova music festival memorial site near Kibbutz Re’im in southern Israel, on October 7, 2026. Right: B'Yachad party #2 Yair Lapid speaks at the "Law and Lies" conference on October 12, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90, Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)
October 12, 2026, 3:22 pm
Herzog: I’ll work to set up ‘stable’ government, Israel must avoid repeat elections
President warns against having to return to the polls, at a time when ‘national challenges are enormous’; Lapid vows no partnership with Netanyahu, slams ‘fake’ unity governments of the past
By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
President Isaac Herzog visits the IDF’s Judea and Samaria Division headquarters near the settlement of Beit El in the West Bank, September 30, 2026. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)
October 12, 2026, 2:48 pm
Herzog says Israel needs bigger police force to stop violent crime, settler attacks
President says officers doing their best, but can’t match scale of the problem, lamenting that Arab Israelis ‘live in terror’ amid crime wave, violence in West Bank a ‘moral stain’
By ToI Staff
Kfar Saba Mayor Rafi Sa'ar in 2018 (YouTube screenshot)
October 12, 2026, 10:47 am
Police arrest Kfar Saba mayor, wife, suspected of receiving bribes to rig tenders
Report says Rafi Sa’ar’s wife was point person for bribes, known criminals received tenders, while couple used money to buy luxury items; 17 people arrested, 7 others questioned
By Michael Horovitz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman, attends a Memorial Day ceremony commemorating fallen Israeli soldiers and victims of terror at Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery, in Tel Aviv, April 21, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
October 12, 2026, 9:22 am
Police said to suspect PM’s top aide took 30 classified records to shape Oct. 7 narrative
Police reportedly believe Tzachi Braverman improperly removed records on security discussions about Gaza held before Oct. 7 by both Netanyahu and Bennett-Lapid governments
By Nava Freiberg
Nanaia Melda, who was stabbed and killed in Beersheba, allegedly by her husband, on October 11, 2026 (Courtesy)
October 11, 2026, 9:42 am
Woman stabbed to death in Beersheba apartment, husband arrested after reportedly confessing
Couple’s 5-year-old son said to have been at home when Nania Melda, in her 40s, was killed; husband called police and told them ‘I murdered my wife’
By ToI Staff
Tzachi Braverman attends a Memorial Day ceremony at the Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery in Tel Aviv, April 21, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
October 10, 2026, 5:17 am
Police said to believe there is enough evidence to charge PM’s chief of staff for altering records
But Tzachi Braverman, probed for forgery and fraud, seen unlikely to be indicted, as it would be tough to disprove his claim that he mistakenly changed timestamp on phone call from morning of Oct. 7 attack
By ToI Staff
Israeli security forces remove Palestinians and left-wing activists from olive groves during the olive harvest season in the West Bank village of Beita, near Nablus, October 2, 2026. (Flash90)
October 8, 2026, 10:47 pm
Katz reportedly seeking to ban pro-Palestinian activists from West Bank during olive harvest
Settlement umbrella group says defense minister taking action at its request; IDF, police address illegal outpost farmers; NGO records 109 acts of violence during harvest season
By Jeremy Sharon
An aerial picture from October 10, 2023, shows the abandoned site of the Supernova music festival, near Kibbutz Re'im, where some 360 people were killed in Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack. (Jack Guez/AFP)
October 7, 2026, 6:06 pm
Man jailed for 7 years for stealing equipment of slain soundman from Nova festival site
Prosecutors say Ram Shaheen and two accomplices stole around half a million dollars’ worth of equipment belonging to Lior Matan, who was killed while helping others flee massacre
By Noam Lehmann
Passengers wait in line to check in their luggage with flydubai at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel, September 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
October 7, 2026, 1:59 pm
Police said to probe 2 senior Transportation Ministry officials over flydubai failures
Dvir Rubinstein reportedly advised airlines, including flydubai, while also issuing their permits; Amir Cohen worked for Israeli carriers abroad, allegedly without approval
By ToI Staff and Nava Freiberg
Illustrative: Police at the scene of a fatal hit-and-run in Jerusalem, October 4, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 6, 2026, 2:30 pm
Man, 36, dies after being tased by cop in Haifa
Police say officers responded to disturbance in northern city, shot man with stun gun; medics say he collapsed minutes later, was pronounced dead in hospital
By Noam Lehmann
Police at the scene of an apparent criminal assassination attempt in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood of Jerusalem, October 6, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
October 6, 2026, 12:19 pm
Mob boss said injured in Jerusalem car bombing, along with his 13-year-old son
Media names target of blast as criminal Itzik Bar Muha, 58; reports say he was taking his son to school when bomb went off in Armon Hanatziv neighborhood
By ToI Staff
A Bar-Ilan University professor's alleged letter (left) to Moshe Feiglin, made public on October 5, 2026, and a view of Bar Ilan University (right). (X/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law/Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
October 6, 2026, 12:38 am
Shin Bet reportedly declined to probe alleged terrorist professor, who sought to enlist right-wing figures
Indicted mathematician, who allegedly plotted to assemble terror militia and kill hundreds of Arabs, met with podcaster who apologizes for not informing police; densely written letter said to outline plans
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox Jews take part in a procession celebrating draft dodgers following their release from military prison, in Jerusalem on September 29, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 30, 2026, 1:18 am
Thousands march in Jerusalem to fete Haredi draft dodgers; cash grants promised
Marchers carry signs calling the IDF an ‘enemy army’ and denouncing ‘the altar of Zionism,’ drawing condemnations from opposition leaders amid political battle over conscription
By ToI Staff
Channel 13 reporter Raviv Drucker seen driving with one hand on the steering wheel and the other hand holding a phone, in a segment that aired on September 23, 2026. (Screenshot/Channel 13)
September 29, 2026, 11:07 am
At behest of Likud lawyer, police probe journalist for talking on phone while driving in TV segment
Journalists’ union queries motive after Raviv Drucker questioned over clip from his Channel 13 investigative program in which he probed how heritage minister allocated state money
By ToI Staff
William, a nine-year-old Armenian Christian boy from Jerusalem, who was pepper-sprayed by a Jewish extremist on Yom Kippur, speaks to Channel 13, in an interview aired September 26, 2026. (Screenshot)
September 28, 2026, 1:42 pm
Suspect arrested in Yom Kippur pepper-spraying of Christian child in Jerusalem
Police say 22-year-old from Haredi-majority settlement of Ganei Modi’in arrested in northern Israel after assault, in which extremists attacked child upon hearing him speak English
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
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