Theft
Priceless Romanian artifacts recovered a year after being stolen from Dutch museum
The Dutch government last year paid 5.7 million euros to compensate Romania for the theft.
Kit-napped: Viral Kit Kat heist sparks responses from brands, cities, and even a Real Housewife
15-ton gummy candy trailer vanishes, police launch search
Fifteen percent of Israelis victims of crime as fears rise, reporting remains low - survey
Tel Aviv man arrested for robbing apartment damaged in Iranian missile strike
Following his arrest, investigators began to suspect that the man may have been involved in a robbery at the club “Shalvata” in Tel Aviv before Operation Roaring Lion began.
Real-life Indiana Jones: British Museum to hire ‘treasure hunter’ to find stolen artifacts - report
Since the original 2023 announcement of the theft, the museum has recovered 654 of these, the most significant of which was 268 gems returned all at once by the United States.
Court charges minors with theft, extortion, knife possession after attacking man they met on Grindr
One of the teenagers met the victim at the gas station, before leading him to a nearby park, where the two others, along with several others whose identities are still unknown, were waiting.
Suspect charged for stealing Egyptian artifacts from Australia museum, citing church ties - report
The stolen artifacts included a 26th Dynasty rare painted wooden Egyptian cat figure, a 3,300-year-old necklace, a collar, and a mummy mask.
Wife of Jewish anti-Zionist convicted of theft for removing hostage poster from memorial in 2024
The British woman was given an 18-month conditional discharge and ordered her to pay $1,637 in prosecution costs.
Portugal returns stolen Mayan, Zapotec artifacts to Mexico in first-ever archaeological restitution
INAH specialists were sent photographs of the finds and conducted a preliminary review of the three, confirming that they indeed “form part of Mexico’s archaeological heritage.”
Second Temple workshop found on Israel's Mount Scopus during investigation into antiquities thieves
The workshop was discovered at the Ras Tamim archaeological site on the eastern slope of Mount Scopus.
Identity theft, data leaks top Israel’s cybercrime list, nearly 1 in 12 affected in 2024
Of the thousands of online crimes reported in 2024, over half of them involved theft and/or distribution of information (52.4%), with a higher likelihood of women being the victims.
Israeli Winter Games bobsled team's apartment robbed, passports taken
According to the Associated Press, Edelman, the bobsled team's pilot who posted the announcement, was not at the site of the robbery, but the team's coach, Itamar Shprinz, was.
Police seize hundreds of ancient, counterfeit coins in east Jerusalem antiquities raid
The collection, hidden in a flowerpot on the suspect's balcony, included coins from the Hasmonean, Herodian, and Roman periods, the IAA said.
