Israel police - Page 2

TEL AVIV – The arrest of Jewish Israeli-American teen suspected of making bomb threats on U.S. Jewish institutions only came about after President Donald Trump sent a team of FBI agents to Israel and deemed his capture a high priority, police sources said.

The Israeli-American teenager whose remand was extended for eight days by an Israeli court on Thursday over suspicions he was behind dozens of bomb threats against Jewish institutions in the US and elsewhere, was not answering police questions or cooperating with investigators, according to a number of reports in the Hebrew press.

Israeli police arrested 18 Palestinian terror suspects this week in connection with their membership in a suspicious chat group on the popular messenger app WhatsApp.

The Border Police arrested a 17-year-old female Palestinian who drew a knife and ran at an officer nearby the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron on Saturday afternoon, the Israel Police announced later that evening.

Stormy weather washed several dozen explosive fuses up onto beaches in Tel Aviv and Herzliya on Saturday, police said warning the public to exercise caution.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be questioned by the Israel Police again this week, apparently on Friday morning as part of their investigation into his having allegedly accepted illicit gifts from businessmen while a public servant.

TEL AVIV – An Israeli art student who exhibited posters featuring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a noose and the word “Rope,” surrounding another poster of assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, was investigated for incitement by Jerusalem police on Tuesday evening.

Israel’s minister for public security said on Wednesday that forty to fifty percent of the fires that broke out across Israel last week were the result of arson.

Some, though not all, of the fires that have been raging through Israel over the past three days appear to be the work of “nationalistically motivated” arsonists, Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich said Thursday.

Nine Palestinians were arrested over several months on suspicion of participating in a cell that targeted Israeli security forces with explosive devices, as well as for plotting future attacks against Israeli forces, the Shin Bet security agency said in a statement on Thursday.

Israel Police are slated to receive six of the most advanced helicopters in the world from the United States over the next several months. Four of the six are single-engine H125 Airbus Helicopter models.

A group of four Palestinians, including one who was granted temporary Israeli residency on humanitarian grounds, planned to carry out a terror attack at a wedding hall where one worked and also kidnap an IDF soldier to be used for leverage in negotiations with Israel, Israeli security officials said Thursday.

JAFFA, Israel – A large Palestinian family living in Jordan decided to celebrate a man who recently carried out a shooting attack in Jerusalem with a “wedding” attended by hundreds of guests to honor his “death as a martyr.”

TEL AVIV – Israel’s security forces have been facing difficult questions as to why they were unable to prevent Sunday’s terror attack that killed two people and injured six others.

Several institutions affiliated with initiatives of the Islamic Movement in Israel were shut down on Thursday, after the Shin Bet recommended the courts extend a previous declaration made by the Security Cabinet, which found the northern branch of the Islamic Movement to be an unlawful instigator.

TEL AVIV – A Jerusalem synagogue was vandalized overnight Sunday with crosses graffitied on the front door and window, in a suspected hate crime.

Two IDF women soldiers were rescued from the West Bank city of Tulkarem on Monday, after they mistakenly entered the area and had rocks thrown at their vehicle, an army spokesperson said.

The Haifa District Court on Thursday sentenced five Israelis to jail terms of between two-and-a-half and six years as part of a plea bargain for their role in attempting to set up a branch of Islamic State in the country.

Police set up roadblocks across southern Israel Wednesday night over an undisclosed security threat, advising area residents to remain alert to anything suspicious.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian prisoner authority said Monday that Israel has agreed to hand over for burial the bodies of Palestinian terrorists killed while carrying out recent attacks on Israelis.

TEL AVIV – U.S. police chiefs are currently in Israel for advanced training in counterterrorism by the Israel Police.

The Israeli public trusts the IDF more than any other state institution while political parties received the lowest level of public trust, according to a survey conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) last year and published on Sunday.

A sprawling marijuana grow house was discovered in a defunct Tel Aviv night club Friday, the Israel Police announced.

IDF units operating in the West Bank town of Yatta (near Hebron) mapped out the home of one of the terrorists who carried out the deadly shooting at Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market last week, the army announced on Friday The procedure is carried out by Engineering Corps units before a structure is demolished.

Israeli police said on Wednesday they had arrested a diamond dealer on suspicion of embezzlement after a complaint was filed by members of the Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE).

TEL AVIV – Israel is thoroughly investigating a shooting incident that involved an IDF soldier in Hebron, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday, the Jerusalem Post reported. The soldier was arrested ten days ago after shooting a disarmed

Ynetnews reports: The Israel Police said Monday morning that the first of ten bodies of terrorists who committed attacks in the recent wave of violence had been returned to the family overnight. The body of Ahmad Abu Shaaban was returned to his

TEL AVIV – Air raid sirens were heard throughout Israel shortly after 10am on Monday as part of a nationwide missile attack drill for educational institutions. All of Israel’s educational institutions took part in a simultaneous exercise, with the IDF Home

TEL AVIV – For the first time, the Israel Police is slated to appoint a Muslim as deputy commissioner – the second-highest rank in the police force, the Jerusalem Post reported.