Arab crime

MK Ayman Odeh, UN chief Guterres to discuss Arab crime wave in New York meeting

"We will continue to fight in every arena, in Israel and abroad, until we eradicate crime and ensure personal security for every citizen," said Odeh.

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MK Ayman Odeh attends Hadash–Ta'al faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on June 22, 2026.
Israel Police Commissioner Daniel Levy and others conduct a meeting to discuss current police operations against Arab sector organized crime. Image released on July 7, 2026.

Israel Police seize vehicles, weapons in Arab sector crime crackdown amid organized crime crisis

Law enforcement officers also conducted raids on several businesses in northern Israel that were suspected of being involved with Arab-sector organized crime.

|ByMAYA ZANGER-NADIS
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attends Israel Hayom conference in Jerusalem, July 5, 2026.

Israel allocates over NIS 500 million for Shin Bet to combat crime in Arab sector

The budget will be funded from the 550 Plan budget, which was led by the previous government and is currently under the authority of Minister May Golan.

|ByANNA BARSKY, ALON HACHMON
Police at the scene where two people were murdered in Haifa, northern Israel, February 18, 2026. Ilustrative.

Teenager killed in Haifa marks 150th person murdered by violence in Arab sector in 2026

In the same incident, Jonathan Khouri, an 18-year-old Arab Christian resident of the city’s Hadar neighborhood, was killed, while a third young man was hospitalized and remains in serious condition.

|ByYOAV ETIEL

Police arrest three suspects in Arab community murders

Two of the suspects were arrested following a case from Friday, in which a man in his 50s was shot in Tel Aviv.

MARCH 30, 2026ByTZVI JASPER
ILLUSTRATIVE: POLICE ARREST suspect thought to have allowed illegal immigrants through border, November 30, 2025.

Jaffa man shot to death in 66th Israeli Arab murder this year

The victim's underage son was also shot, receiving moderate leg wounds in the incident, which police suspect is criminal.

MARCH 28, 2026ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
This picture taken on April 21, 2021 shows an aerial view of the old city of Israel's Mediterranean coastal city of Jaffa, where French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his soldiers launched an attack between March 3-7, 1799 against the Ottoman-controlled city before capturing it.

Northern city mayor and deputy in moderate condition after being shot - report

The circumstances surrounding the shooting were not immediately clear. Police said they opened an investigation into a shooting in the northern city of Arraba that saw two men moderately injured.

MARCH 8, 2026ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israel Police and Magen David Adom respond to a road incident in which one police officer was injured near Tapuah junction in the West Bank on February 23, 2026.

President Herzog calls for 'state of emergency' over Arab sector violence at annual Iftar dinner

President Isaac Herzog joined Arab leaders at an Iftar dinner to demand a national emergency against rising violence, calling the record wave of killings a "stain" in Israel's history.

FEBRUARY 24, 2026ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Annual Iftar dinner hosted by President Isaac Herzog to break the Ramadan fast.

Most Jewish Israelis blame Arab crime wave on 'cultural problem,' poll finds

While most Jewish respondents pointed to cultural factors, a similar majority of Arab respondents (57%) blamed police inaction.

FEBRUARY 22, 2026ByMOSHE COHEN, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli security forces are seen at the scene where three men were shot dead by assassins in the city of Shfaram, northern Israel, January 7, 2026

Thirty-four arrested in lower Galilee raid after four injured in grenade incident

Eyewitnesses at the scene reported that the explosion, which occurred before the gunfire, was followed by a drone hovering over the area.

FEBRUARY 21, 2026ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A Magen David Adom mobile intensive care unit and paramedic, June 2, 2025; illustrative.

Despite leading in votes, Netanyahu lacks power to form coalition - poll

In bloc terms, Netanyahu’s coalition stood at 50 seats (unchanged from the previous poll), the opposition bloc at 60 (unchanged), and Hadash-Ta’al plus Ra’am at 10 (unchanged).

FEBRUARY 20, 2026ByMOSHE COHEN
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Gal Hirsch, Coordinator for the Hostages and the Missing in the Prime Minister"s Office hold a press conferene at the Prime Minister's office in Jerursalem, January 27, 2026.