Mafia

Italian intelligence suggest link between Palestinian terrorists, Sicilian mafia

The investigation draws on intelligence reports, judicial records, and historical documents describing networks extending from Lebanon and Syria to Sicily and Rome.

Clouds hang over Cagliari, Italy, January 31, 2026
Yanis Yushayev

Killing of mafia head Yushayev leaves Hadera vulnerable to further organized criminal violence

Yanis Yushayev

Police claim to solve murder of Yanis Yushayev, prosecutor's declaration filed against Hazon man

Yanis Yushayev

Caucasian mafia head Yanis Yushayev killed in shooting at Caesarea gas station


Is there a cure for the Arab sector's crime crisis?

MIDDLE ISRAEL: The crime crisis in the Arab sector has become a national scourge, and there is a way to beat it.

 ISRAELI-ARABS BLOCK a road in Tel Aviv during a protest last month against violence, organized crime and recent killings in their communities.

Mafia boss Shumi Isakov, son, killed in shooting in Israel's North

Isakov had survived a previous attempt on his life in 2004, when unidentified assailants opened fire on him, his younger brother and another individual.

 SCENE OF THE SHOOTING OF MAFIA BOSS SHUMI IZAKOV IN KIRYAT MOTZKIN

In ‘Lansky,’ Harvey Keitel puts the gangster’s Jewishness front and center

Lansky, born in Russia in 1902, arrived in New York in 1911. Known as the “Mob’s Accountant,” he was notorious in his own right, operating criminal rackets from Miami to Las Vegas to Cuba.

Meyer Lansky in 1958

Jake Tapper’s ‘The Devil May Dance’ partners Hollywood, Mafia and politics

Set in the early 1960s, it sends the Marders on an undercover mission that sounds groovy and glamorous: Hang out with Frank Sinatra and his famous Rat Pack in Los Angeles to find out just how tight the singer’s ties to the Mafia are.

CNN’S JAKE TAPPER with president Barack Obama at a town hall meeting in Fort Lee, Virginia, 2016.

Tattooed Italian mobster nabbed in Caribbean thanks to his cooking videos

Biart made a fatal mistake. He and his wife posted on YouTube several videos of Biart cooking Italian dishes. Although they were careful not to show his face, police recognized him from the tattoos.

Illustrative Photo: Ahmed Hergal, founder of Italian restaurant L'antica Pizzeria DaPietro, adds ingredients to his 999 DT (360 USD) pizza, covered with luxury foods and edible gold leaf, in Tunis, Tunisia, March 6, 2021.

Netanyahu meets with Arab-Israeli authorities to discuss lowering crime

"I want special forces, task forces," Netanyahu suggested, after indicating that the crime wave would likely spread to Jewish localities soon.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a Clalit healthcare center in the Arab town Tira.

25 years after 'Casino': a primer on some of Hollywood's Jewish gangsters

The film's protagonist is based on Frank Rosenthal, a real Jewish gambling expert from Chicago who had ties to the Chicago Outfit and eventually headed to Vegas to run casinos for them.

Robert De Niro as Ace Rothstein in a scene from the 1995 film "Casino."

New documentary seeks to find New York Jewish gangster's buried treasure

Infamous bootlegger Dutch Schultz reportedly hid around $8 million somewhere in upstate New York, but it has continued to elude treasure hunters for 85 years.

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Mobster storms Palestinian town to get back beloved horse

'Nissim would make sure that they would go in and get the horse out. This is a horse that he raised like a baby.'

Palestinian teenagers ride their horses during sunset in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Shuafat

As mafia delivers essentials in Italy, cartels distribute food in Mexico

Last week, reports first circulated of several Mexican cartels deploying members to dole out aid packages to help cash-strapped residents ride out the coronavirus pandemic.

An employee of the clothing brand "El Chapo 701," owned by Alejandrina Gisselle Guzman, daughter of the convicted drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, hands out a box with food, face masks and hand sanitizers to an elderly woman as part of a campaign to help cash-strapped elderly people during th