Crime

Stolen vehicle overturns on Route 60 after penetrating police roadblock, halting traffic

Officers fired upon the vehicle as it drove through the roadblock. Following the crash, the driver was extracted from the vehicle and received medical treatment.

A stolen vehicle overturned and caught fire on Route 60 south of Jerusalem after the driver drove through a police roadblock, October 9, 2026.
Israel Tax Authority, Israel Land Authority, Bank of Israel.

Cryptocurrency trading under scrutiny as two Israelis face multimillion-dollar tax evasion probes

Children look at the scene of a knife attack at a vocational school in the town of Ostroleka, some 120 km north of Warsaw on October 7, 2026. Officers have arrested a 19-year-old man after eight people were wounded in a knife attack at a high school in Poland.

Poland's second school knife attack in two days kills one, raises copycat fears

Collection of glass vials with medicines (illustrative)

East Jerusalem pharmacy student indicted for plotting mass-casualty attack using poison


Tel Aviv resident charged with harassment, threats in extortion campaign against media professional

“You have ended your career,” he allegedly wrote in one message. “I am going to be cruel at a level you never imagined.”

Illustration of arrested suspects on their way to hearing at the DIstrict Court in Jerusalem.

Suspect arrested in fatal shooting of 30-year-old man in Jaffa as police probe motive of incident

The wounded man was evacuated in serious condition to Wolfson Medical Center, where medical teams were forced to pronounce his death.

Police arrest a murder suspect in Jaffa, Septemer 15, 2026.

FBI Director Kash Patel faces Senate grilling over Epstein files, travel funds, personal record

Republicans and Democrats also pushed Patel to explain why the FBI changed its hiring qualifications, including eliminating bestiality as an automatic disqualifier.

FBI Director Kash Patel attends a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, September 15, 2026.

Denis Mukin sentenced to 22 years for murder of Diar Omari in road dispute

The court also ordered Mukin to pay NIS 258,000 to Omari’s estate, disqualified him from holding a driver’s license for three years, and confiscated the Glock pistol used in the shooting.

Ofer Prison

Israel's High Court signals it will not order police probe into 2023 death of Yuval Kestelman

After hearing both sides on Monday, the three-justice panel urged the family to withdraw its petition. The family declined and requested a reasoned judgment.

IDF reservist Sgt. (res.) Aviad Frija, suspected of shooting Israeli civilian Yuval Kestelman.

Beersheba man indicted for poisoning baby food jars, hospitalizing five children

The indictment, filed in Jerusalem District Court, sets out the state’s account of two incidents in May and June involving Prinok fruit and vegetable puree sold at two Zol Begadol branches.

Police outside of the Zol Bagadol supermarket in Jerusalem on June 17, 2026, as law enforcement investigates multiple incidents of children being hospitalized after eating tainted fruit puree.

Netanya daycare worker sentenced to seven years for abusing 12 toddlers

Shenkar was convicted in February of nine counts of abusing a helpless minor as a caregiver, 33 counts of assaulting a helpless minor and causing injury, and two counts of aggravated assault.

Sad, child and crying on floor in home with mental health, abuse or anxiety from trauma.

Man charged with aggravated murder in fatal Beit Shemesh pool stabbing of 7-year-old

Prosecutors allege that he stabbed Dadon once in the chest and his cousin once in the neck, intending to kill them both. He then fled to his housing unit, the indictment says.

Photo from the indictment of Liel Ifergan for the aggravated murder of seven-year-old Hillel Mordechai Dadon, September 14, 2026.

Fourth suspect arrested over theft of weapons from Israel's Shayetet 13 Navy SEALs base

Police arrested a fourth suspect in the theft of three M4 rifles from the Shayetet 13 base in Atlit, with investigators alleging he played a "central" role in the case.

M4 Carbine superimposed on an Israeli flag

Three bodies found in burned vehicle near Jaljulya in latest Arab sector murder

Police suspect the three men, two brothers and their cousin from Jaljulia, were shot before the vehicle was set on fire early Sunday.

Burned vehicle is seen after authorities discovered three bodies inside it on September 13, 2026 near Jatt, in northern Israel.