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Kafr Qara

View of the Arab-Israeli city of Kafr Qara, northern Israel. February 13, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)
February 8, 2026, 9:29 pm
Man shot and killed outside home in Kafr Qara in latest Arab community bloodshed
Omar Yahya, 25, is 39th casualty of violent crime in the sector in 2026, less than a year and a half after his brother was killed; woman also wounded, taken to hospital
By Charlie Summers
Muhammad Marazqa, a 17-year-old who was stabbed to death by his classmate in Kafr Qara on October 27, 2025. (Courtesy)
November 13, 2025, 3:14 pm
Teen charged with murder, weapons offense over killing of classmate
Prosecutors say suspect routinely brought a knife to school, where, just weeks after joining education institute, he stabbed to death Muhammad Marzouk
By Charlie Summers
Scene of a fatal shooting in the Arab town of Kfar Kara, November 1, 2025. (Magen David Adom)
November 2, 2025, 12:07 pm
Man killed in Kafr Qara in suspected gangland shooting
Watchdog grouip says 215 members of Arab community slain since start of year amid ongoing homicide wave
By ToI Staff
Muhammad Marazqa, a 17-year-old who was stabbed to death by his classmate in Kafr Qara on October 27, 2025. (Courtesy)
October 27, 2025, 5:50 pm
17-year-old boy stabbed to death by classmate at school
Police arrest high schooler in Arab city of Kafr Qara on suspicion of killing classmate Muhammad Marzouk; 18-year-old shot dead hours earlier in lower Galilee
By Charlie Summers
The scene of a fatal shooting in Lod, July 23, 2025. (Israel Police)
August 1, 2025, 3:20 pm
Two people shot dead within hours in Arab cities amid unabating homicide wave
36-year-old man found lying unconscious in Kafr Qara, hours after 88-year-old woman shot and killed in Arraba
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Yusri Dalauna. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 11, 2025, 12:43 pm
2 men shot and killed within hours amid unrelenting deadly crime wave
Man gunned down on busy street in the middle of Arab town Tira; hours later, another is slain in Kafr Qara
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Israel Police officers on Route 90, October 11, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
January 7, 2025, 5:23 pm
Northern Israeli indicted for racist assault of Arab doctor who stopped to help him
Liel Abadi charged with causing Dr. Mahmoud Masalha grievous bodily harm after telling him that ‘all Arabs need to die’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A police car in Rishon Lezion on July 3, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
November 5, 2024, 9:33 am
Man shot dead in central Arab town of Kafr Qara
Killing is 198th homicide in Arab Israeli community since start of 2024, set to be deadliest year on record
By ToI Staff
Alaa Abu Atta, 38, who was shot dead in Kafr Qara on October 15, 2024. (Courtesty)
October 15, 2024, 10:15 am
Man shot dead in northern town
Police say shooting not terror-related; victim, declared dead at scene, was reportedly known to authorities
By Michael Horovitz
Israeli security forces and first responders gather at the site of a deadly Hezbollah drone strike near the north-central Israeli town of Binyamina, October 13, 2024. (Oren ZIV / AFP)
October 14, 2024, 5:42 pm
‘A huge boom’: Residents near IDF base shaken by deadly Hezbollah drone attack
A day after 4 soldiers killed in strike, resident of nearby Kafr Qara asks how terror group knew about the base, and ‘what if next time they fire and are slightly off target?’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Mourners pray after the September 3, 2023 funeral of 60-year-old Sheikh Sami Abed al-Latif, the imam of Kfar Qara who was shot and killed at the entrance to the village a day earlier. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
September 4, 2023, 5:52 am
Arab towns, businesses plan strike Tuesday in call for action on violent crime wave
Organizations seek to establish emergency committee on spate of killings; mourners at funeral of murdered 60-year-old imam in Kafr Qara briefly block road in protest
By ToI Staff
Sheikh Sami Abed al-Latif giving a sermon. (Video screenshot)
September 2, 2023, 7:11 pm
Imam shot and killed in Kafr Qara, marking 166th death in Arab community this year
Murder of 60-year-old Sheikh Sami Abed al-Latif follows double homicide in town on Thursday
By ToI Staff
This handout photo shows a car that carried two men who were shot to death in the northern town of Kafr Qara, September 1, 2023. (Israel Police)
September 1, 2023, 10:55 pm
Two killed in northern town, raising homicide toll in Arab community to 165
Pair including 13-year-old shot in Kafr Qara while riding in car; shooting follows numerous killings and comes after 2 slain Thursday in separate incidents
By ToI Staff
Illlustrative: Parademics from Magen David Adom respond to a deadly shooting in Lod on Saturday night, July 9, 2022 where a 60-year-old man was killed and a woman and child were injured. (MDA)
August 19, 2023, 10:53 pm
150 Arab victims of violence since start of 2023: Two men shot dead in latest killings
Man slain in Lod, with mother lightly injured; another killed in Tuba-Zangariyye; Friday saw two more killings
By ToI Staff
Rami Asli, the victim of a shooting in the northern town of Kafr Qara on August 18, 2023. (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 18, 2023, 9:58 pm
2 killed, 1 seriously hurt in separate shootings in north
Victims are 147th and 148th members of Arab community killed this year as violent crime wave shows no signs of abating
By ToI Staff
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