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A woman is seen blowing out Hanukkah candles in a Tel Aviv mall in an undated video from December 2025. (Screen grab/ X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 23, 2025, 10:03 am
Police to probe teen who blew out Hanukkah candles in Tel Aviv mall
Police say 17-year-old girl and 19-year-old relative called in for questioning; rights group challenges legality of investigation amid questions on nature of alleged offense
By ToI Staff
Likud MK Tally Gotliv speaks during a Knesset committee meeting in Jerusalem on March 11, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
May 11, 2025, 12:46 pm
State prosecution said mulling charges against Likud MK for outing Shin Bet agent
Tally Gotliv vows she won’t show up for preliminary hearing, claiming parliamentary immunity from prosecution
By ToI Staff
File: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara speaks at Tel Aviv University, September 28, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
March 13, 2024, 3:58 pm
Attorney general scolds Ben Gvir for meddling in probe of officer who shot teen
Baharav-Miara warns minister interference is illegal after he showed up at Justice Ministry office to blast investigation of border cop who killed 13-year-old in East Jerusalem
By ToI Staff
A person uses a keyboard featuring an Israeli flag (Hakan Gider/ iStock)
January 11, 2024, 6:29 pm
Report: Teen falsely held 18 months for leak of classified info; was fed intel by IDF
17-year-old said to have been recruited by officers for unapproved social media campaign; when army realized this, it did not pass on exonerating evidence to authorities
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with Pope Francis at a welcoming ceremony at Israel's Ben Gurion airport, May 25, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 30, 2023, 2:49 pm
No probe to be opened into missing gifts Netanyahu got from pope, other dignitaries
State Prosecutor Amit Aisman says no sufficient evidence of misappropriation in disappearance of 30 presents, some valuable, from PM’s residence after Netanyahu left office in 2021
By ToI Staff
Left to right: Netanyahu trial Judges Moshe Bar-Am, Rebecca Friedman-Feldman and Oded Shaham. (Justice Ministry)
August 6, 2023, 9:47 pm
Netanyahu trial judges defend assertion that bribery charge will be hard to prove
Judges also reject allegations made in a public complaints process that they are intimidated by the PM’s trial due to its political and social sensitivities
By Jeremy Sharon
Edward Kachura, appears at a hearing in the Haifa District Court in the case of 17-year-old Lital Melnik's death, November 29, 2021. (Flash90)
June 12, 2023, 10:19 pm
Claims of police cover-up roil dramatic murder trial for girl buried alive
Defense team claims police interrogator tried to hide result of test showing 17-year-old victim could have interred herself, supporting suspect’s claim that he did not bury her
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A man typing on a computer keyboard, January 24, 2017. (Flash90)
June 5, 2023, 3:20 pm
In 1st, prosecutors pull court evidence that was obtained via illegal use of spyware
Review finds sleuths illicitly pulled data from the computer of a suspect in a murder case; state attorney is monitoring issue after media allegations of misuse of NSO’s Pegasus
By ToI Staff
Roman Zadorov arrives at his home in Katzrin after being acquitted in a retrial of the murder of Tair Rada at the court in Nazareth, March 30, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
May 14, 2023, 5:42 pm
State drops appeal after Roman Zadorov acquitted of murdering teen girl
In March ruling, district court said it feared Zadorov was forced into falsely confessing to killing Tair Rada in 2006
By ToI Staff
Palestinian security prisoner Mahmoud Atallah is accused of sexually assaulting and raping female IDF soldiers and guards at Gilboa Prison, in a scandal that alleges the women were 'pimped' out to Palestinian inmates. (Courtesy)
March 28, 2023, 7:42 pm
Palestinian inmate, ex-officers at Gilboa prison to be indicted in ‘pimping’ scandal
Prosecutors reopen case, say that after examining new claim that surfaced last year, Mahmoud Atallah will be charged with rape; jail commander, intel chief to be accused of fraud
By ToI Staff
File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, on March 18, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 25, 2023, 5:31 pm
High Court says Netanyahu, AG, police must explain missing foreign dignitary gifts
Order comes in response to petition demanding criminal probe regarding 30 presents, some of them valuable, that disappeared from PM’s residence after Netanyahu left office in 2021
By Jeremy Sharon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's attorney Boaz Ben Zur (L) and prosecution lawyer Yehudit Tirosh arrive at a hearing in Netanyahu's corruption trial at the Jerusalem District Court on December 27, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
January 9, 2023, 7:06 pm
Attorneys lose cool at first Netanyahu trial hearing since his return as PM
Judges order brief recess after defense attorneys shout at them, frustrated with the prosecution’s handling of the investigations against the premier
By ToI Staff
Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for his trial at the District Court in Jerusalem, May 10, 2022 (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)
December 21, 2022, 7:51 pm
Right-wing MKs: Claims by Netanyahu trial witnesses against cops show reform needed
Smotrich, Likud MK say harassment allegations against investigators bolster their argument for limiting authority of law enforcement
By ToI Staff
Former police commissioner Roni Alsheich speaking at a conference at Reichman University, Feb. 13, 2022. (Adi Cohen Tzedek)
December 21, 2022, 12:57 am
Ex-police chief says he recommends seeking plea deal in Netanyahu corruption trial
Roni Alsheich – who led police investigation into former premier – suggests AG seek plea bargain as ‘our democracy is not yet ready to prosecute a sitting PM’
By ToI Staff
David Sharan arrives to testify in the trial against former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the District Court in Jerusalem on December 20, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
December 20, 2022, 6:35 pm
Prosecutors ask court to declare Netanyahu’s former bureau chief a hostile witness
‘I’ve been attacked and harassed,’ David Sharan tells court, referring to police questioning, before being put on stand by prosecution or defense; court considering his request
By ToI Staff
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