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People look at the damage after a missile fired toward Israel overnight struck the Bedouin town of Zarzir, in northern Israel, March 13, 2026. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
March 18, 2026, 12:46 pm
Arab Israelis share Jews’ distrust of Iran, but not their appetite for war
Though most in the Arab community have little affinity for the Islamic Republic, few support the military campaign, seeing Tehran as less of a danger than the war’s potential cost
By Charlie Summers
Laris Achlaug (left) and Lama Awwad, PhD students, work in a lab at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. (Courtesy/Nitzan Zohar)
December 26, 2025, 7:27 pm
In surprising breakthrough, scientists in Israel find cancer may help heal the failing heart
Study by researchers at the Technion finds that injecting cancerous serum in mice decreased cardiac fibrosis — paving the way for innovative therapies
By Diana Bletter
Paramedics arrive at the scene of a shooting that killed two men in Nazareth on December 20, 2025. (Magen David Adom)
December 21, 2025, 1:01 am
Father and son murdered in Nazareth amid surging Arab community violence
Police hunt suspects as separate central Israel shooting leaves man moderately wounded; watchdog says record 247 Arabs killed in violent crimes so far this year
By Charlie Summers
A picture of Nidal Masadeh, a school security guard who was shot to death in Kafr Yasif on October 15, 2025. (Courtesy/Wazcam)
November 25, 2025, 3:20 pm
Grieving families blame police as spiking murder rate bleeds through Arab society
No community seemingly left untouched with violent crime among Arabs nearing new record high even as arrests of suspects fall, feeding anger and mistrust of law enforcement
By Charlie Summers
Muhammad Wafiq Hejazi, a 53-year-old man shot and killed by unknown assailants who broke into his home in Tamra on October 23, 2025. (Courtesy)
October 24, 2025, 12:09 pm
Protests mount as crime wave in Arab cities claims 209th victim this year
Northern Arab city in shock after 53-year-old shot dead in his home by assailants who also injured his wife; hundreds in Kafr Yasif protest surging crime wave, blame police
By Charlie Summers
The 28 victims of Iranian missiles in June 2025, from top left: Yevgenia Blinder, Eti Cohen Angel, Yisrael Aloni, Manar Khatib, Shada Khatib, Hala Khatib, Manar Khatib, Miki Nahum, Belina Ashkenazi, Efrat Saranga, Meir Vaknin, Mariia Pieshkurova, Daisy Yitzkahi, Hadassah Belo, Kostiantyn Tutevich, Illia Pieshkurov, Anastasia Buryk; Cpl. Eitan Zacks, Noa Boguslavsky, Uri Levy, Igor Fradkin, Daniel Avraham, Avraham Cohen, Naomi Shaanan, Ivette Shmilovitz, Yaakov Belo and Michal Zacks. No image of Olena Sokolova is available. (Composite: TOI/Courtesy)
June 29, 2025, 10:56 pm
These are the 28 victims killed in Iranian missile attacks during the 12-day conflict
From a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor to a 7-year-old Ukrainian cancer patient, the following are those slain in some of the 36 Iranian ballistic missile impacts
By Amy Spiro
Placing of a public shelter in northern Israel, on the border with Lebanon. November 17, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
June 25, 2025, 4:27 pm
Shelters erected in areas hit hard by missiles, but Arab towns again overlooked
‘NIS 100 million for the entire country is nonsense,’ says mayor of Tamra, where four members of a single family were killed in an Iranian attack
By Charlie Summers
President Isaac Herzog (L) meets bereaved husband and father Raja Khatib in Tamra on June 18, 2025 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
June 18, 2025, 8:15 pm
Herzog visit ‘warms our hearts,’ say Tamra residents mourning 4 killed in Iran strike
President condemns reactions by some Jews who celebrated attack on predominantly Muslim city of 37,000. ‘The majority of Israelis want peace and coexistence,’ locals say
By Diana Bletter
Ramat Gan mayor Carmel Shama-Hacohen (second from right), deputy mayor Einav Bar Cohen (second from left) and a social worker from the Ramat Gan Municipality speak with a resident at a first aid center established within an hour of an Iranian missile attack on the night between June 13 and 14, 2025. (Ori Habushi)
June 18, 2025, 7:56 pm
Cities work to survey damaged buildings and support thousands evacuated to hotels
In central Israel, where Iranian missiles have caused the largest loss of life and property, community and social workers fan out to help with everything, from basic supplies to filing paperwork
By Sue Surkes
Raja Khatib mourns over a casket during the funeral of four members of his family killed in an Iranian missile attack which destroyed their home in the northern Arab-Israeli city of Tamra, June 17, 2025. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
June 17, 2025, 11:42 pm
‘What are these wars for?’: Arab Israeli city of Tamra shattered by Iran strike
Hundreds line the streets as Raja Khatib lays to rest his wife, two daughters and sister-in-law killed by a ballistic missile
By AFP and ToI Staff
Benny Gantz and other National Union MKs visit the city of Tamra on June 16, 2025, after it was hit in a Iranian missile strike. (Courtesy National Unity)
June 17, 2025, 6:19 pm
Opposition MKs visit Arab town where four residents were killed by Iranian missile
Benny Gantz says attacks don’t distinguish between Jewish and Arab towns; Yair Golan expresses solidarity with residents; Gilad Kariv pledges to build better reality for all Israelis
By Sam Sokol and Michael Horovitz
Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a ballistic missile from Iran hit a building in Rehovot, June 15, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 16, 2025, 4:23 pm
News you can use: Five practical points about the Israel-Iran war
As Israel is being hit by Iranian missiles and the toll of deaths and injuries rises, life has mostly come to a standstill. Here’s what you should know
By Rossella Tercatin and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tours the scene of a deadly Iranian missile strike in the city of Bat Yam on June 15, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
June 15, 2025, 7:11 pm
Netanyahu, at site of deadly Bat Yam missile strike, vows Iran to pay ‘very heavy price’
Herzog, Ben Gvir also visit building where 7 killed, 100 wounded; president plans to visit Arab city where four women killed, notes missiles don’t discriminate
By Nava Freiberg and Sam Sokol
Doaa Hmade (right), volunteer with the Home Front Command and Tamra municipality, stands on the street in Tamra where a Iranian ballistics missile struck a house, killing four women on June 15, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
June 15, 2025, 3:09 pm
Deadly Iranian missile ‘brought out the hatred’ inside Israel, Tamra residents say
Coexistence tested after video shows Jewish Israeli man cheering projectile that killed four in the Arab Israeli community near Haifa
By Diana Bletter
Fatalities in an Iranian missile attack on Tamra, northern Israel, June 14, 2025, all of whom are from the Khatib family: Top left: Manar Khatib; top right: Shada Khatib, 20; bottom left: Manar Khatib (Shada's mother); bottom right: Hala Khatib, 13 (Shada's sister). (Pictures from X; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
June 15, 2025, 1:02 am
4 women – mother, 2 daughters and a sister-in-law – killed by Iranian missile near Haifa
10 injured in salvo from Islamic Republic on northern Arab city of Tamra, where residents have warned about lack of bomb shelters
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
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