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View of the Eilat Police headquarters, in Southern Israel, April 21, 2022

Police arrest four in connection to gang rape of young teen in Eilat

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Screen capture from video of Harish Mayor Yitzhak Keshet, 2024.

Police arrest mayor of Harish suspected of sexual offenses

By EFRAT FORSHER

An Israel Police officer is seen arresting a man on a highway in an illustrative

One in six Israelis faces crime in 2024, CBS report finds

Israel Police search for axe-wielding attacker in Jerusalem's Old City February 19, 2025.

Police arrest suspected axe-wielder who hacked Old City woman

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Catching culprits who duped women out of thousands of shekels via Telegram.

Extortionists posed as women online, trapped victims with intimate photos

Police at scene of stabbing attack in Florentine, Tel Aviv, January 18, 2025.

Israel Police launches crackdown on Arab sector criminal activity

Palestinian prisoners wait to be released from Ketziot prison, southern Israel, October 1, 2007.

Annual pardons report: Herzog lists crimes for which there are no pardons, commuted sentences

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

A woman wrapped in an Israel flag stands outside the place where mayor of Amsterdam Femke Halsema attends a press conference following the violence targeting fans of an Israeli soccer team, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 8, 2024.

Violence reports drop during Israel-Hamas War, experts warn of post-war surge

A PROTEST against the sexual violence committed in the October 7 massacre – and the international silence afterward – takes place outside UN Headquarters in New York City earlier this month.

Rape crisis centers get 55,000 complaints in 2023

SECURITY FORCES arrive at the scene of a stabbing attack in Jerusalem, last month. Contrary to a narrative popularly pushed by Western leaders and the media, Palestinian terrorism isn’t just conducted by the extremists in Palestinian society, the writer argues. (20/4/2024)

Can Israel tackle internal terror threats rising across the country?

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Itamar Ben-Gvir leading an operation on criminal families in the area of Ramle and Lod on September 13, 2024

Ben-Gvir leads mass raid on crime following deadly attack in Ramle

By ALON HACHMON , Bentzi Rubin , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Income Tax and Property Tax Department at the Finance Ministry

Job loss for Israeli parents hurts children's academic performance - Finance min

MK Mansour Abbas, leader of the United Arab List (Ra’am).

Ra'am's Abbas proposes parliamentary investigation into surging crime in Arab sector

By ELIAV BREUER

Police car at night

Man arrested at B-G Airport for suspected involvement in two-year-old murder case

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

The scene of a shooting in Haifa. September 24, 2023

Four more dead as gun crime wave continues in Israel

By MICHAEL STARR

Smuggled guns seized by the IDF and Israel Police near the border with Jordan, October 3, 2022

Police seek to catch Arab sector crime bosses through tax forms

By MICHAEL STARR

The scene of a car ramming terrorist attack next to the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, Israel, on April 24, 2023.

A majority of Israelis feel unsafe amid rampant crime, terror

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Chief of Police Kobi Shabtai patrol on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem, November 25, 2022.

Police stop blood feud crime assassination, third in south in 5 days

By MICHAEL STARR