A senior member of a prominent crime organization was shot dead on Friday in Ramle, a city in central Israel with significant Jewish and Arab populations. Early on Friday, 50-year-old Ali Jarushi was rushed to a local hospital in critical condition after being shot multiple times near a mosque. Jarushi is a central figure in…
Police are reportedly probing three members of the fringe anti-Zionist, ultra-Orthodox sect Neturei Karta who entered the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank earlier this week and met with Palestinians from local terror groups. The men, residents of Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh, were filmed meeting with prominent Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group officials…
Israel completed the sale of the Haifa Port Company to a partnership led by India’s Adani Ports along with an Israeli chemical and logistics company Gadot Group. The Israeli government had started the process to sell its interest in the port company five years ago and after the development of a Chinese-owned terminal in Haifa…
Companies run by Israeli businessmen have sold spyware and surveillance tools to Bangladesh, despite a lack of diplomatic relations between Israel and Bangladesh, a report by Haaretz revealed on Tuesday. Israeli companies and a company run by a former IDF intelligence commander but based in Europe sold the tools to Bangladeshi authorities in recent years.…
The US Defense Department and intelligence authorities are barring Israel Air Force (IAF) pilots with foreign passports from flying F-35 fighter jets, in fear of information security and technology leaks. This move by the US stems from an increasingly expanding focus on information security and safeguarding US interests. As a result, sources claim the IAF…
A Palestinian villager encountered Israeli cattle and fabricated a story about how Israel has been secretly training the cattle to spy on Palestinians, according to Palestinian Media Watch citing the official Palestinian Authority daily news outlet Al-Hayat Al-Jadida. “These are recruited and trained cattle, Palestinian villager Rushd Morrar reportedly told the daily. “On the neck…
Three police officers were indicted Thursday for allegedly obstructing with an investigation into the fatal stabbing of a teenager in October, with prosecutors saying one of those charged passed on information about the probe to the person who eventually was charged with the murder. Haim Gabai, Shai Cohen and Yitzhak Ben Shayah were charged with…
The management of several companies linked to NSO Group, the spyware company blacklisted by the Biden administration, has moved to London. NSO, which sells Pegasus, one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking tools, is based in Israel, but several of the companies that manage some of the group’s operations – including one that NSO has…
Volunteers of the ‘Hashomrim’ organization in Bnei Brak were called this morning (Monday) following a report to the organization’s hotline about a woman being assaulted by an Arab in the Vizhnitz housing complex. The volunteers who arrived at the scene took testimony from the woman who told them that she got stuck in the elevator…
Modeling agent Shai Avital landed in Israel on Tuesday to face a slew of sexual harassment complaints following his extradition from the Netherlands, 18 months after Israeli police first sought to investigate him for serial sexual abuse. Avital, 45, was accompanied by Tel Aviv Police representatives on the flight from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv, following…