Israel murder rate

Police arrest suspect over double murder of mother, son in Yokne’am Illit

The suspect, whose name is under a gag order, is believed to have killed a mother and her son in their apartment in Yokne’am Illit.

 Israel Police during operation in Israel's North to thwart murder attempts, April 27, 2025. (Ilustrative)
A protestor carries a poster during a demonstration to protest against femicide, sexual violence and all gender-based violence ahead of the International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women, in Valletta, Malta November 23, 2025.

Femicide in Israel: Man indicted for burning ex-wife to death after months of threats

BEFORE HER father, Vendyl Jones, died in 2010, Sarah Richardson would help him on archaeological digs. This past May, she was murdered by her son, Joel, in yet another femicide in Israel.

Israel's concerning new femicide problem: Sons murdering their mothers - opinion

 Police at the scene where five people were shot dead in the Arab Town of Yafa an-Naseriyye, northern Israel, June 8, 2023

Arab-Israeli murder rate third highest in developed world


Car bombing in southern Israel leaves top mob official dead

The incident comes as a number of suspected gangland hits have taken place throughout Israel.

Scene of the crime in Ashkelon where a mob official was killed in a car bombing

Israeli beduin woman found burned and buried in suspected 'honor killing'

The family allegedly were angered by the 19-year-old's plan to work outside the home and supposed contact with men.

Police car at crime scene

Tiberias decapitation suspect: 'divine spirit' drove me to murder ex-wife

Police released the identity of the man suspected of decapitating his ex-wife and carrying her head down the street.

The scene of the crime in Tiberias

Trauma expert tells of ‘horrific’ scene at suspected Jerusalem murder-suicide

Two daughters autopsied; family’s funeral held in the capital.

Emergency services outside the Jerusalem aparment building where a mother and four children died in an apartment fire on Jan 1 2017.

Fugitive wanted for double murder shot dead by district police commander

Anastasia Rosanov was shot dead in her apartment along with Eliezer Kandinov just hours after she had returned from a battered women’s shelter.

Police car at crime scene

Police: Man arrested in connection to serial homicides, sexual assaults

Court-appointed Attorney Lior Ronen said that his client “is a new immigrant with no criminal record, and he denies all of the allegations against him.”

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Police grapple with brutal murder of woman in front of her children

A deadly act of vengeance against a mob witness, or a murder by an abusive husband against the wife he had repeatedly threatened to kill?

Police car at crime scene

Teenager believed murdered by twin buried as police work on motive

Shiri’s attorney Gil Friedman denied media reports that the two had confessed to the murder Thursday evening to police, saying that at no point did they confess to any role in the killing.

Police car at crime scene

Police yet to rule out terror attack in murder of farm worker on moshav

The victim, 70-year-old David Bar Kafra of Rehovot, was attacked by a group of agricultural workers – believed to be illegal Palestinian laborers or possibly Thai agricultural workers.

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Teen at murder trial: I ‘never dreamed’ we would kill Abu Khdeir

Defense Ministry recognized Abu Khdeir as a victim of hostile action and granted his family compensation rights identical to those received by victims of Arab terrorism

Yosef Ben David, currently serving a life sentence, was the ringleader of the group which killed Palestinian teen Mohammed Abu Khdeir