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Israel's prison chief Kobi Yaakobi summoned for second hearing ahead of possible indictment

IPS Commissioner Kobi Yaakobi was summoned for a second hearing on suspicion of fraud, breach of trust, and obstruction of investigations. A pre-indictment hearing is underway.

 Israel Prison Service chief Kobi Yaakobi attends a National Security committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament on November 20, 2024.
An Israel Prison Service officer at Ketziot Prison watches as Palestinian prisoners are prepared for release in exchange for Israeli hostages held by Gazan terrorists, February 26, 2025; illustrative.

'We are never full': Palestinian prisoners claim they received little food in Israeli prisons

The law courts in Tel Aviv

Prosecution indicts convicted sex offender for repeated violations of supervision order

Israel Prison Service guards operate in a special wing of Israeli citizens accused of spying for Iran, in the Damon Prison, in northern Israel, July 1, 2025

Israel faces worst prison overcrowding crisis in its history, report warns


Smuggled sperm allows Palestinian prisoners to become fathers

Sixty-three children reportedly born via IVF treatment

Palestinian protesters wave their national flag outside of an Israeli prison

Thousands of prisoners with hepatitis C do not receive medication

The Prison Service treated only 10 to 20 prisoners last year.

INMATES WALK through the Hermon Prison in northern Israel last week.

Life after work: Israel opens retirement home for security dogs

What happens to these dogs once they are too old, sick, or injured to perform?

Prison service employees at the inauguration of the security dogs retirement home in Damon Prison on July 4, 2017.

Raising the bars - inside Israel's high security prisons

Nafha Prison’s deputy warden Yariv Cohen, who is in charge of many security prisoners and terrorists, talks of life in jail from his perspective.

Nafha Prison’s deputy warden Yariv Cohen

Parole board to decide Thursday on releasing ex-PM Olmert

Olmert, who is serving a 27-month sentence for bribery, fraud, and other charges, is requesting his sentence be reduced by a third.

Ehud Olmert

Former PM Olmert to remain hospitalized

After being examined by a doctor at Ma’asiyahu Prison in Ramle, where he is serving a 27-month sentence for two counts of bribery, Olmert was transferred to the hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert

De l’urgence de repenser les prisons

Comment mettre un terme aux grèves de la faim parmi les détenus ? Eléments de réponse avec Orit Adato, anciennement à la tête de l’administration pénitentiaire

Marwan Barghouti entouré de gardiens de prison

Rule of Law: Israel's Palestinian prisoner predicament

As Palestinian prisoners enter the third week of a hunger strike, former Prisons Service chief Orit Adato tells the Post that Israel needs to rethink its policies.

Palestinians take part in a protest in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem April 17, 2017

State folds, returns hunger striking Palestinian prisoners access to lawyers

On April 17, 1,500 Palestinian security prisoners started a hunger strike to protest what they called inhumane treatment and restrictions in the prisons.

A Hebron man demonstrates in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on a hunger strike in protest at being held in administrative detention

Encountering Peace: Prisoners, strikes and rights

The best way to bring Palestinian prisoners home and set them free is to make genuine peace with Israel.

People in Ramallah walk past a poster depicting Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails