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Legal aid caseload reaches 154,552 files as debt, family disputes dominate report

The annual report details wartime assistance, a Supreme Court debt ruling, and wider access to help for older people facing financial exploitation.

Entrance to the Office of the Minister of Justice, at the Ministry of Justice in Jerusalem, April 7, 2025.
They want to bring the fans back. Hapoel Tel Aviv.

Hapoel Tel Aviv announces: Starting a new chapter, no longer suing fans

Illustration of arrested suspects on their way to hearing at the DIstrict Court in Jerusalem.

Tel Aviv resident charged with harassment, threats in extortion campaign against media professional

A young man holds an image of Beniyahu Razi who was murdered last month in Jerusalem, outside a court hearing on August 07, 2026.

Jerusalem District Court keeps Linor Sasson in custody in Benayahu Razi murder case


Denis Mukin sentenced to 22 years for murder of Diar Omari in road dispute

The court also ordered Mukin to pay NIS 258,000 to Omari’s estate, disqualified him from holding a driver’s license for three years, and confiscated the Glock pistol used in the shooting.

Ofer Prison

Education Ministry admits to not having data on allergies in children, reactions in schools

The admission came during a hearing on a petition filed by attorney Gilad Bar Tal, legal adviser to the Yahal Association, against what the organization describes as an experiment.

Nearly three million Israeli students begin school on September 1, 2026, including some 180,000 first-graders.

50-day prison sentence for man who kept monkey chained with iron links at home

Jerusalem Magistrate's Court also imposed 10,000-shekel fine on defendant, who kept green monkey and chameleon in his yard without permit.

The defendant kept a grivet monkey inside a cage in his yard for at least a month.

Man charged with aggravated murder in fatal Beit Shemesh pool stabbing of 7-year-old

Prosecutors allege that he stabbed Dadon once in the chest and his cousin once in the neck, intending to kill them both. He then fled to his housing unit, the indictment says.

Photo from the indictment of Liel Ifergan for the aggravated murder of seven-year-old Hillel Mordechai Dadon, September 14, 2026.

Man accused of stabbing two men in antisemitic attacks in New York charged with hate crime

Raul Morales faces a multi-count indictment, including charges of attempted murder in the second degree as a hate crime.

 The Lincoln Square Synagogue at 200 Amsterdam Avenue on the corner of West 69th Street in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was built in 1970 and designed by Hausman & Rosenberg.

Tiberias man charged with sexually abusing two brothers when they were nine

In some instances, prosecutors alleged, he prevented one of the brothers from leaving the place where they were and instructed him to keep the abuse secret.

An illustrative image of a man in handcuffs, being arrested.

WATCH: Prosecutors move to indict Beersheba man in sedative-laced baby food case

Yan Shemla is suspected of contaminating jars of Prinok fruit puree that were linked to the hospitalization of at least four children in Jerusalem earlier this year.

Police outside of the Zol Bagadol supermarket in Jerusalem on June 17, 2026, as law enforcement investigates multiple incidents of children being hospitalized after eating tainted fruit puree.

Court extends detention of soldier suspected of committing sexual offenses against minors

The soldier allegedly posed online as a 16-year-old boy to contact girls aged 14 and 15 and persuade them to send him revealing photographs. He allegedly later began extorting and threatening them.

An illustrative image of a man in handcuffs, being arrested.

Judge declares mistrial in Lindsay Clancy murder trial

Lindsay Clancy, 36, strangled her three children with exercise bands in January 2023 in the basement of their home before cutting herself with a knife and jumping from a second-story window.

Lindsay Clancy looks on as Judge William Sullivan has declared a mistrial in Plymouth, US, September 4, 2026.

Supreme Court president warns of physical violence against legal figures after vebal attacks

“The path to physical violence first passes through verbal violence,” Amit told a special Israel Bar Association conference in Tel Aviv, convened following the killing of attorney Arbel Feldman.

Supreme Court President Isaac Amit addressing the special Israel Bar Association conference in Tel Aviv on September 2, 2026..