Bat yam

Tel Aviv police arrest additional suspect in Japanika grenade attack case

The suspect, a Bat Yam resident in his 20s, was taken for questioning by the Tel Aviv District Central Unit and will be brought before the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.

A view of a Japanika restaurant branch owned by businessman Barak Abramov that was damaged in a shooting in Herzliya, central Israel, July 14, 2026.
Image from the arrest of a Bat Yam resident, charged with sexual offenses against his two granddaughters

Israel Police arrest man linked with committing serious sexual offenses against his granddaughters

 An illustrative image of an Israel Police officer.

Knife-wielding suspect charges police officers in criminally motivated attack in Bat Yam

Israel Police vehicles; illustrative.

Police thwart attempted motorcycle theft in Bat Yam, arrest two suspects


IAF intercepts drone off coast of Gush Dan, Houthis claim responsibility

Areas included Ramat Hasharon, Herzliya, Tel Aviv, and Petah Tikva, according to reports.

 Rockets being intercepted over northern Israel, 22 September 2024

In four separate criminal incidents in an evening: One killed, eight wounded

The violent criminal incidents occurred in Yarka, Daliat al-Carmel, Ramla, and Bat Yam.

Israel Police at the scene of an explosion in southern Tel Aviv, August 18, 2024.

Israel Festival project promises rejuvenating grassroots connections

The project’s background bumf puts the philosophy into neat evocative parlance. “One man’s junk is everyone’s treasure,” whatever that treasure may be.

 MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST Itamar Shimshony breathes new life into discarded playthings.

New art attractions in Israel

Come experience some of Israel's greatest new art exhibitions and exhibits.

 THE BAT YAM Museum of Art offers a child oriented summer robot exhibition.

This Israeli building has been crowned ugliest building in the world

One apartment building in the Israeli city of Bat Yam was dubbed the ugliest in the world. Why is it so ugly and who did it beat out?

 An aerial view of the Israeli city of Bat Yam.

Israeli beats disabled man with his own crutch after hitting his car

The 21-year-old Israeli resident of Bat Yam can be seen beating a man with his own crutch and leaving him lying on the street as cars continued to drive past.

A road-rage attack on a disabled Israeli man is shown in this footage taken on April 2, 2023

Israeli mob attacks Arabs who entered Bat Yam on Yom Kippur

The angry mob turned their vehicle over, according to reports citing witnesses and footage from the scene, and injured two who were rushed to Wolfson Medical Center in Holon for further treatment.

 Israel Police cars are seen at the crime scene at Nahf, northern Israel on September 7, 2022

Man kidnapped in Bat Yam, three arrested

A man was forced into a car on Tuesday night, and police found the car with the suspects and hostage on Wednesday.

Police car at night

Man who lynched Arab during Gaza operation deserves more jail time - State Attorney

Lahav Ohanina was sentenced to one year in prison after pleading guilty to participating in the Bat Yam lynching of Said Musa.

Violent riots broke out in Ramla last night amid the ongoing violence between Palestinians and Israelis in east Jerusalem.

3 men indicted for assaulting Arabs, shooting Jewish woman

The men in Bat Yam attacked two young Arab Israelis, one of whom was wheelchair-bound due to ALS, and shouted "Kill him, he's an Arab."

Male hands arrested with handcuffs in Criminal concept (illustrative)