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Israel's prison chief Kobi Yaakobi summoned for second hearing ahead of possible indictment

IPS Commissioner Kobi Yaakobi was summoned for a second hearing on suspicion of fraud, breach of trust, and obstruction of investigations. A pre-indictment hearing is underway.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Israel Prison Service chief Kobi Yaakobi attends a National Security committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament on November 20, 2024.
An Israel Prison Service officer at Ketziot Prison watches as Palestinian prisoners are prepared for release in exchange for Israeli hostages held by Gazan terrorists, February 26, 2025; illustrative.

'We are never full': Palestinian prisoners claim they received little food in Israeli prisons

Samer Khawaireh, 45, told Reuters that all he was given to eat in Israel's prisons was ten thin pieces of bread over the course of a day, with a bit of hummus and tahini, and tuna twice a week.

|ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF, SARAH BEN-NUN
The law courts in Tel Aviv

Prosecution indicts convicted sex offender for repeated violations of supervision order

The prosecution requested that he be remanded in custody until the conclusion of the legal proceedings, citing a high level of danger to the public.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Israel Prison Service guards operate in a special wing of Israeli citizens accused of spying for Iran, in the Damon Prison, in northern Israel, July 1, 2025

Israel faces worst prison overcrowding crisis in its history, report warns

Aspects of daily life behind bars include cells so crowded that detainees cannot move without climbing over one another, and inmates sleeping on thin mattresses on the floor for weeks or months.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN

Tzipi Refaeli contracts COVID, debate over vaccinating inmates continues

Tzipi Refaeli, mother and agent of Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli, is currently serving a 16-months sentence at the Neve Tirza women's prison.

JANUARY 15, 2021ByTOBIAS SIEGAL
Israeli model Bar Refaeli wears a face mask amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic as she leaves the courtroom with her mother, in Tel Aviv, Israel September 13, 2020.

Ohana must follow Health Ministry, A-G order to vaccinate prisoners - NGOs

Previously, the Health Ministry directed that all prisoners be vaccinated.

JANUARY 11, 2021ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
An Israeli prison guard is seen through a gate at Maasiyahu prison near Ramle, south of Tel Aviv, Israel February 15, 2016. Former Israeli Prime Minister Olmert begins his 19-month prison sentence at Maasiyahu prison on Monday, making him the first former head of government in Israel to go to prison

Ohana: Prisoners won’t be vaccinated ‘without my permission’

PA to demand that Palestinian or foreign doctors supervise the vaccination of the prisoners.

DECEMBER 27, 2020ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH
Israeli Public Security Minister Amir Ohana and Agriculture Minister Alon Schuster (not seen) at the Rafcor Plant, in Rosh Pina, Northern Israel, which has recently suffered from a number of acts of agricultural terrorism, harassment and arson. November 10, 2020.

Terminally ill Hamas terrorist dies in Israeli prison

Hamas stated that the terrorist's death "crossed red lines."

JULY 8, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Palestinian prisoners wait to be released from Ketziot prison, southern Israel, October 1, 2007

How radio is used as a tool in Israeli prisons to promote rehabilitation

Radio Focus was launched in 2016 and is located in the Ayalon Prison.

FEBRUARY 13, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Radio Focus

Prison guards run off bus during rocket siren, leaving prisoners on board

The guards did not respond when the prisoners asked them about why they were being left behind.

NOVEMBER 20, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A ROCKET fired from Gaza by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad heads toward Israel this week

140 Palestinians in Israeli prisons enter 9th day of hunger strike

The inmates claim that agreements reached after a similar strike last April have still not been implemented.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019ByTZVI JOFFRE
A Palestinian prisoner, convicted of security offences against Israel, looks out of his cell at Nitzan jail

Israel detained over 1,600 Palestinian prisoners in 2019 - report

The report, issued to correspond with Prisoners’ Day, also showed that there are 500 Palestinians held in administrative detention without trial or charge.

APRIL 18, 2019ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
A woman holds a picture of a Palestinian prisoner held in an Israeli jail, during a rally marking Palestinian Prisoners' Day, in Bethlehem in the Israeli occupied West Bank April 17, 2019

NGO: State must protect rights of migrant mothers, children

Currently, many of the complaints regarding mistreatment of migrants in detention are serious, but the volume of those facing these issues are smaller than in the recent past.

APRIL 14, 2019ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
A boy takes part in a protest against the Israeli government's plan to deport African migrants, in Tel Aviv, Israel March 24, 2018.

This is how one man tried to smuggle cellphones into an Israeli prison

The phones were surgically removed from the man's body.

FEBRUARY 25, 2019ByALON EINHORN
Cellphones surgically removed from a detainee's body in Ofer prison