Crime

Two childcare workers questioned after toddlers found alone, nearly one km. from daycare

The investigation began Sunday after police received a report of young children wandering alone near the facility. Officers arrived, located the toddlers, and helped return them to their parents.

Illustration of a daycare.
Police arrest Palestinian suspected of filming Bnei Brak light rail station, posing as Israeli, October 13, 2026.

Palestinian West Bank resident arrested for filming Bnei Brak light rail, posing as Israeli

View of the Kfar Saba City Hall in central Israel, after Mayor Rafi Sa'ar was arrested early this morning at his home on suspicion of involvement in a public corruption scandal, October 12, 2026

Israel Police arrest Kfar Saba mayor, wife, and 15 others in major municipal corruption probe

Yonatan Urich is seen following a hearing on journalist Omri Assenheim’s refusal to provide police with materials from a program he broadcast about Eli Feldstein, after the District Court ruled that journalistic privilege does not apply, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, March 30, 2026.

Qatargate suspect Urich confirms phone was hacked, says leakers will 'pay full price'


Israel privacy watchdog orders police probe into leak of Yahalomi mother, daughter's footage

According to an investigation by the Authority, the information published on some media outlets may have come from the police, while it's not been determined that a privacy violation occurred.

Mili and Liel Yahalomi exiting Ben-Gurion Airport, October 7, 2026.

Beersheba man arrested after calling police to report himself for fatally stabbing ex-wife

N12 News reported that the couple's five-year-old son may have been in the apartment at the time of the incident.

Nania Melda.

Tennessee execution survivor Christa Pike released from hospital, returned to prison

Pike, 50, had been taken from the execution chamber to a Nashville hospital, unconscious and ‌with severe arm injuries after two injections failed to kill her at a maximum-security prison.

Christa Gail Pike, 36, the only woman on Tennessee's Death Row, is pictured in this 2007 Tennessee Department of Correction booking photograph obtained by Reuters March 22, 2012.

Shahar Nevo's double life as Bar-Ilan math professor accused of plotting massacre - explainer

His name was known mainly in the hallways of the department and among those who took his courses in infinitesimal calculus and analysis. Now he's known for planning a mass terror attack.

Shahar Nevo, Bar-Ilan University math professor who formed a terror cell with the intention to carry out attacks.

Three injured in Poland's third youth stabbing attack in four days

A 21-year-old student allegedly stabbed three people at a Warsaw college, days after two school attacks left one person dead and several injured, raising fears of further violence.

Members of the media work next to a cordoned-off area as police and fire fighters work at the site of a deadly attack at a school by a 15-year-old former pupil, in Leszczydol-Nowiny, Wyszkow County, northeast of Warsaw, Poland, October 8, 2026.

Stolen vehicle overturns on Route 60 after penetrating police roadblock, halting traffic

Officers fired upon the vehicle as it drove through the roadblock. Following the crash, the driver was extracted from the vehicle and received medical treatment.

A stolen vehicle overturned and caught fire on Route 60 south of Jerusalem after the driver drove through a police roadblock, October 9, 2026.

Cryptocurrency trading under scrutiny as two Israelis face multimillion-dollar tax evasion probes

Two Israelis face separate investigations into suspected cryptocurrency tax evasion involving millions of dollars, with authorities seizing digital wallets, foreign currency, and a luxury car.

Israel Tax Authority, Israel Land Authority, Bank of Israel.

Poland's second school knife attack in two days kills one, raises copycat fears

"We are facing an extraordinary situation... for the first time, we are dealing with a killer who wore a helmet-mounted camera, intending to film the knife attack," said Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

Children look at the scene of a knife attack at a vocational school in the town of Ostroleka, some 120 km north of Warsaw on October 7, 2026. Officers have arrested a 19-year-old man after eight people were wounded in a knife attack at a high school in Poland.

East Jerusalem pharmacy student indicted for plotting mass-casualty attack using poison

Prosecutors accused a pharmacy student from Beit Hanina of preparing terrorist attacks involving lethal poisons and explosive devices, allegedly intended to cause mass casualties.

Collection of glass vials with medicines (illustrative)

Two men sentenced to prison for stealing Nova victim’s sound systems

Ram Shahin received a seven-year sentence; Daniel Hasson was sentenced to three years and four months.

Matan Lior's parents, Ofer and Sarah, at the entrance to a courtroom at the Beersheba District Court, October 7, 2026