Military court

IDF major charged with aiding enemy, taking bribe in alleged Gaza smuggling scheme

The officer, whose identifying details are barred from publication, was charged with aiding the enemy, taking a bribe, aggravated smuggling, attempted aggravated smuggling, fraud, and breach of trust.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
A truck carrying humanitarian aid bound for the Gaza Strip drives at the inspection area at the Kerem Shalom crossing, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in southern Israel, March 14, 2024.
A truck loaded with humanitarian aid waits to cross from the Egyptian side of Rafah en rounte to the Kerem Shalom crossing into the Gaza Strip on October 20, 2025.

IDF officer charged with aiding the enemy in Kerem Shalom smuggling case

An IDF lieutenant has been charged with smuggling goods into Gaza, using his military role to facilitate the operation in exchange for a bribe.

|ByJAMES GENN
A VOTE on the death penalty for terrorists who murder Israeli civilians at the auditorium in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, March 30, 2026.

Israel's new death penalty law marks moral break, sparks discrimination fears, expert says

For Prof. Yoram Rabin, a criminal and constitutional law scholar and president of the College of Management Academic Studies, the law is both a moral rupture and a legally vulnerable one.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Capt. Tomer Aigas

Mother of Tomer Eiges 'ashamed' to have served in Unit 8200, appalled at son's treatment in prison

"There was a huge mess and oversight with the medications that nobody noticed," Eiges said. "He had a million pills, and everyone kept giving him more and more."

|ByYOAV ETIEL

Palestinian arrested for trying to smuggle pipe bomb into military court

It was the third attempt to infiltrate a court house with bomb in two months.

DECEMBER 28, 2017ByDANIEL K. EISENBUD
A pipe bomb neutralized December 28, 2017 at the Samaria Military Courthouse in the West Bank.

Police disarm Arab teen with pipe bomb in West Bank

The teen attempted to enter a West Bank military courthouse with a pipe bomb.

OCTOBER 15, 2017ByDANIEL K. EISENBUD
The pipe bomb seized by police in front of Salem Military Court Sunday.

Refusenik soldiers to return to hesder

Two Nahshon soldiers disciplined for banner stunt to finish service.

JUNE 29, 2010ByJPOST EDITORIAL
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