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Megiddo Prison

This photo, undated and and in an unknown location, provided by family member Zeyad Kadur shows teenager Mohammed Ibrahim. (Zeyad Kadur via AP)
October 24, 2025, 8:53 am
Family presses for release of Florida teenager held for months in Israeli prison
‘It’s made our family numb,’ says uncle of 16-year-old Mohammad Ibrahim, detained for alleged stone-throwing in February after cousin killed in West Bank settler attack
By AP
Hamas terror suspects, caught during the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and ensuing war in Gaza, crouch on the ground in the courtyard of a prison in southern Israel, February 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 29, 2025, 10:28 am
Scabies outbreak plagues prisons as number of security inmates hits new high
Reports of abuse, overcrowding, disease and malnutrition have multiplied since Oct. 7, with some saying it violates both the law and human dignity
By Nurit Yohanan
Khalid Ahmad holds a poster of his 17-year-old son, Waleed, who died in an Israeli prison, that reads in Arabic, 'The hero prisoner Martyr, mercy and eternity for our righteous Martyrs,' in the West Bank town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah March 26, 2025. (Nasser Nasser/AP)
April 6, 2025, 2:01 pm
Doctor says Palestinian teen who died in Israeli prison showed starvation signs
Summary by Israeli doctor who observed autopsy does not conclude cause of death, but notes Walid Ahmad, 17, was in state of extreme weight loss, muscle wasting
By AP and ToI Staff
An Israeli archaeologist points at a nearly 1,800-year-old decorated floor from an early Christian prayer hall that Israeli archaeologists discovered adjacent to Megiddo prison, on November 6, 2005. (Ariel Schalit/AP)
June 7, 2024, 11:20 am
Mosaic floor of early Christian prayer hall to be displayed at US evangelical museum
The Megiddo Mosaic, discovered in 2005 on the grounds of a prison in northern Israel, to get first public showing at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC
By Gavriel Fiske
The Israel Defense Forces operates in the West Bank, March 13, 2024. (IDF)
March 13, 2024, 12:52 pm
Palestinians say 4 shot dead by security forces in Jenin, near Jerusalem
Border Police say they ambushed suspects readying firebombs near road linking capital to West Bank settlement; 6 Palestinians killed since late Tuesday, including at least 3 teens
By ToI Staff
An Israeli archaeologist points at a nearly 1,800-year-old decorated floor from an early Christian prayer hall that Israeli archaeologists discovered adjacent to Megiddo prison, on November 6, 2005. (Ariel Schalit/AP)
August 15, 2023, 5:04 pm
Israel may uproot ancient Christian mosaic, send it to US Evangelical museum
Megiddo Mosaic could be loaned to Museum of the Bible in Washington; some worry it will be used in ideological, rather than archaeological, context
By Ilan Ben Zion
An Israel Antiquities Authority conservationist works on the 'Jesus' mosaic excavated at a prison in Megiddo in northern Israel, part of a structure from the third or fourth century that may be one of the earliest Christian churches. (Yoli Schwartz/IAA)
March 28, 2022, 8:21 pm
Earliest mosaic in Israel dedicated to Jesus may soon be sprung from prison
3rd-century Christian structure and 3 mosaics with inscriptions – including ‘to the God Jesus Christ’ – were uncovered at Meggido jail in 2004-08; it may now become a tourist site
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Cellphones and SIM cards found inside a security prisoner's abdomen. (Israel Prisons Service)
February 16, 2020, 11:20 am
Security prisoner caught with 11 contraband cellphones inside his abdomen
Israeli Prison Service says that efforts to smuggle devices into Israeli jails happen ‘all the time’; phones are intended for use in directing terror attacks
By ToI Staff
Visitors at the ancient site of Tel Megiddo in the Lower Galilee in 2012. (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)
From the WebAugust 8, 2018, 6:29 pm
Megiddo prison makes way for new excavations at Armageddon site
Facility to be relocated after construction works expose remains of Christian prayer hall at site of biblical apocalyptic battle, Reuters reports
Fatah terror chief Marwan Barghouti, serving five life terms for murder during the Second Intifada, appears in a Jerusalem court, January 25, 2012. (Flash90)
April 17, 2017, 8:37 pm
Barghouti put in solitary, moved to new prison over hunger strike
Israel Prisons Service also transfers dozens of other inmates in bid to foil protest, determined not to give in to their demands
By ToI Staff and AFP
Palestinian security prisoner Abed al-Basat (Channel 2 screenshot)
March 18, 2017, 10:14 am
New Israeli TV series follows lives of Palestinian security prisoners
‘Meggido’ director Itzik Lerner documented convicted terrorists for over a year, grappling with his own misgivings in the process, as he sought to gain a glimpse into their hearts
By Itamar Sharon
Stone-throwing Palestinians in East Jerusalem (illustrative photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
December 12, 2016, 4:50 pm
East Jerusalem teens indicted for planning attacks
Prosecutors say eight defendants plotted stone-throwing and Molotov cocktail assaults when they met in prison
By Stuart Winer
Israeli circus artists protest for the release of Palestinian detainee Abu Sakha, a circus performer on a 6-month administrative detention, outside the Megiddo prison northern Israel, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
March 5, 2016, 1:34 pm
Amnesty makes appeal for Palestinian clown detained by Israel
Group calls for pressure on Jerusalem ahead of March 21 hearing for Mohammed Abu Sakha, held for alleged PFLP activity
By Agencies
Barak Hirchson in court in January 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)
June 6, 2013, 10:00 am
Jailed former minister’s son gains early release
Barak Hirchson served four months of a seven-month sentence for drunk driving
By ToI Staff
Arafat Shalish Shahin Jaradat (photo credit: image capture from Channel 2)
March 15, 2013, 5:30 am
EU calls for probe into Palestinian prisoner’s death
European Parliament passes resolution urging ‘independent, impartial and transparent’ investigation into Arafat Jaradat’s death
By Joshua Davidovich
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