Lod

2025 deadliest year on record for Arab society in Israel, Abraham Initiatives report finds

According to the data, 252 Arab citizens lost their lives in 218 incidents of violence and crime this year, an increase compared to 2024, when 230 people were murdered.

 Israel Police during operation in Israel's North to thwart murder attempts, April 27, 2025. (Ilustrative)
Emergency service volunteers, together with Jerusalem District Police and other forces, are searching for five people last seen in a Jeep driving near Beit Zayit Dam.

Emergency services halt search for five missing people near Beit Zayit Dam

 Thousands on the platform at the Hashalom Station near Begin Street.

Packed stations, mass delays: Trains across Israel delayed for hours after fatal rail accident

Yonatan Urich arrives for a court hearing as part of the 'Qatargate' affair in Lod, August 19, 2025

Judge allows Netanyahu aide Yonatan Urich to work with Likud, maintains ban on PMO role


Metro Grapevine: Holiday Giving

News briefs from around Israel.

Arye Deri

Supreme Court demurs on furlough for crime boss

In 2004, Rosenstein was charged with ecstasy trafficking in a joint investigation conducted by the Justice Ministry and the US Justice Department.

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Liberation from limitation

The AXIS troupe inspires with integrated dance.

The AXIS integrated dance company of able-bodied and disabled dancers has got the moves – here at Lod’s Ganei Aviv community center

Roman and Byzantine-era mosaic discovered in Lod

Well preserved 1,700-year-old artistry depicts hunting, animals, fish, flowers in baskets, vases and birds.

IMAGE OF the mosaic

Films on social justice come to Lod

The festival to include a competition for films by teens from the Lod area, and a workshop open to social activists.

MALI LEVI-GERSHON (left) and Shai Avivi star in  Dror Shaul’s ‘Atomic Falafel’

Israeli mayor warns his city’s Arabs could've 'controlled our only airport'

An Israeli organization promoting Arab-Jewish coexistence demanded the mayor of Lod retract the statement.

Residents sit with cups of coffee outside their apartment building in Lod

WATCH: Security cameras capture shocking daylight kidnapping in Lod

Kidnapped man was later found murdered n an open area outside a Palestinian village near Hebron.

Security cameras capture daylight kidnapping in Lod‏

Ex-boyfriend arrested in Lod double homicide

Suspect in satisfactory condition in suicide attempt after fatal stabbing of ex and another man in woman’s apartment.

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Court rules haredi paper must publish ad by haredi women’s party

Lod District Court helps haredi women's party by ordering religious newspapers to publish campaign ads.

Ruth Colian‏

Lod: Between hope and despair

The Jerusalem Post