Israel crime rate

Police arrest suspect over double murder of mother, son in Yokne’am Illit

The suspect, whose name is under a gag order, is believed to have killed a mother and her son in their apartment in Yokne’am Illit.

 Israel Police during operation in Israel's North to thwart murder attempts, April 27, 2025. (Ilustrative)
SOCIAL EQUALITY Minister May Golan stands at her chair at the government table in the Knesset plenum earlier this month. Transferring funding from social development to policing will fuel crime, not fight it, the writer argues.

May Golan's policing proposal will fuel crime, not fight it - opinion

Israel Police vehicles; illustrative.

Court indicts eight minors for lynching a 16-year-old in Herzliya park

 An illustrative image of an Israel Police officer.

Police arrest teen suspected of stabbing classmate at school in Ashdod


Assassination attempt in Ashkelon leaves one dead and several injured

Police suspect the case, which left a 20-year-old woman dead and a young girl critically injured, may be an assassination attempt on an individual known to the police.

 Crime scene investigators gather outside a crime scene.

Man arrested at B-G Airport for suspected involvement in two-year-old murder case

Israel Police arrested a man at Ben-Gurion for a two-year-old murder case; Police arrested two suspects in connection to a shooting incident in Hadera; Police thwarted a criminal attack in Lod

Police car at night

Two killed, including a teen, as gun violence in Israel continues

In Rahat, a 14-year-old was shot dead and a teen was injured in a conflict between two families, while in Haifa a man was killed in a suspected hit.

 The scene of an attempted murder in Kiryat Haim, April 15, 2023.

12-year-old boy seriously injured in shooting in Jisr-e-Zarka

His cousin was shot dead by Israel Police forces while allegedly attempting to carry out a revenge shooting against the one who had fired at the boy earlier in the evening.

 The scene of a shooting incident in which a 12-year-old was seriously injured in Jisr e-Zarka, October 28, 2022

Five suspects arrested after man killed in Ramle shooting

A second additional murder was also reported in the Arab sector on Sunday morning, in the town of Baka al-Gharbiya.

 Scene of a murder in Ramle, August 27, 2022

Man in northern Israel killed by gunshots fired from passing vehicle

The man was evacuated to hospital from the location in which he was shot, on Route 804, where he was found unconscious. He was in critical condition.

LOWER GALILEE view from Tzipori.

Despite overall drop, violent and cyber crime on the rise in Israel

In 2018 murder was also down, 103 people were murdered compared to 135 in 2017.

Police at the scene of a crime in Rameh in northern Israel

Police arrest two suspects in shooting at Jisr e-Zarka police station

Attempt to remove Israeli flag leads to banning two from town

Jisr e-Zarka

2 dead in suspected murder at Netanya rehab center

Police suspect that a patient of the center murdered his roommate as well as an employee of the center.

A suspected double murder in Netanya, August 2, 2018

Brother allegedly murders his two sisters in their family home in Jaffa

Incident comes hours after mother and daughter found dead in suspected murder-suicide

Police at the scene of a crime in Rameh in northern Israel