Israel murder rate

Language barriers, crime, transportation harming Arab economy, experts say

According to experts, the Arab economy in Israel is plagued by a lack of Hebrew skills, high crime rates, and subpar public transportation. A recent event sought to find a solution.

THE ARAB-ISRAELI city of Umm al-Fahm in the foreground and Wadi Ara in the background.
United Hatzalah respond to a call about three men who were shot and killed in the Sharon region on February 3, 2026.

Three men found murdered in their car, bringing 2026 Arab-Israeli death toll to 32

 Israel Police during operation in Israel's North to thwart murder attempts, April 27, 2025. (Ilustrative)

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

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


38-year-old woman murdered in Tira, masked assailant managed to flee

This is not the first attempt at Sura Mansour's life; her car was set aflame one month prior to her murder in what was suspected to be arson and an attempted threat to her life.

A protest against the rising crime and violence in the Arab sector in Israel, Jaffa, Saturday, February 6, 2021.

Editor's Notes: Enough with the murder on Arab streets

Ayman Odeh (C) prays at the funeral of the brothers killed this week in Majd el-Kurum.

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.”

Crime scene [illustrative]

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