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Tarabin al-Sana

MK Mansour Abbas at the Knesset on November 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 27, 2026, 8:37 am
As Arab parties answer call for unity, Ra’am seeks to retain role as coalition kingmaker
Factions look to reunify as ‘Joint List’ so as to pool power for community wracked by deadly crime, but Islamist party wants to keep its plans to expand its base and return to government
By Tal Schneider
Protesters decry the police's handling of crime in the Arab sector during a demonstration outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 11, 2026. (Times of Israel)
January 11, 2026, 5:42 pm
‘Arab blood isn’t cheap’: Hundreds rally in capital over police failure on violent crime
Protesters call for sacking Ben Gvir amid surge in homicides, call to ‘free Tarabin al-Sana’; police withdraw from southern Bedouin town after 12-day operation
By ToI Staff
A Border Police officer patrols near a mosque in the southern Bedouin town of Tarabin al-Sana on December 31, 2025. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)
January 8, 2026, 7:22 pm
As police besiege Bedouin town, Arabs say they — not criminals — are in the crosshairs
With killings rampant in the north, Ben Gvir sends heavily armed cops south to Tarabin, where they have used West Bank-style tactics to deadly effect, sparking anger and deepening mistrust
By Charlie Summers
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tours the Negev with ministers and top security officials, January 7, 2026. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
January 8, 2026, 4:42 am
Netanyahu says Negev is ‘out of control’ while touring south amid Jewish-Arab tensions
As PM dashes Bedouin leaders’ hopes by backing police crackdown, Herzog holds ’emergency meeting’ with Jewish and Arab mayors to urge calm after Bedouin man shot dead by officer
By Charlie Summers and Lazar Berman
Hadash-Ta'al MK Ahmad Tibi speaks to the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, January 5, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 6, 2026, 9:58 am
Police threaten legal action after Arab MK calls force’s spokesman ‘a loser’
Ahmad Tibi, who has parliamentary immunity, urges internal affairs probe of Israel Police spokesman after on-air argument over police shooting during raid on Bedouin town
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Hadash-Ta'al party chairman Ayman Odeh attends a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 5, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 5, 2026, 7:42 pm
MK Odeh demands probe into deadly police shooting of Bedouin man, as funeral held
Hadash-Ta’al chairman blasts ‘fascist minister’ Ben Gvir, calls on police to release body cam footage from incident after attending slain man’s burial in embattled Negev village
By Charlie Summers and Ariela Karmel
Muhammad Hussein Tarabin, 36, who was killed by police during a raid on the Bedouin town of Tarabin al-Sana overnight on January 4, 2026. (Courtesy/Regional Council for Unrecognized Villages of the Negev)
January 4, 2026, 12:28 pm
Man shot dead by police during raid in Bedouin town; officer under house arrest
Family says man was killed on doorstep during overnight operation by masked officers in army garb, denies police claim that he posed a threat; Ben Gvir praises forces responsible
By Charlie Summers
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (right) and Deputy Commissioner Nachshon Nagler (left), commander of the Border Police's National Guard force, tour the Bedouin town of Tarabin al-Sana during a police raid on December 31, 2025. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)
December 31, 2025, 10:21 pm
Ben Gvir vows to ‘thrash’ criminals in Tarabin al-Sana, urges Shin Bet to join raid
Bedouin leaders decry ‘campaign of incitement,’ urge PM to intervene as far-right minister tours Negev town for 3rd time in week, following arson attack in nearby community
By Charlie Summers
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