Lod

2025 deadliest year on record for Arab society in Israel, Abraham Initiatives report finds

According to the data, 252 Arab citizens lost their lives in 218 incidents of violence and crime this year, an increase compared to 2024, when 230 people were murdered.

 Israel Police during operation in Israel's North to thwart murder attempts, April 27, 2025. (Ilustrative)
Emergency service volunteers, together with Jerusalem District Police and other forces, are searching for five people last seen in a Jeep driving near Beit Zayit Dam.

Emergency services halt search for five missing people near Beit Zayit Dam

 Thousands on the platform at the Hashalom Station near Begin Street.

Packed stations, mass delays: Trains across Israel delayed for hours after fatal rail accident

Yonatan Urich arrives for a court hearing as part of the 'Qatargate' affair in Lod, August 19, 2025

Judge allows Netanyahu aide Yonatan Urich to work with Likud, maintains ban on PMO role


President Herzog: Coexistence in Lod means coexistence in Israel

Herzog clarified that Lod is not the only city in which there are social rifts, but is the most varied representative of the incredible Israeli social mosaic.

Official photo of Isaac Herzog

8 arrested in Molotov cocktail attack on Jewish home in Lod

The attack was different from other attacks during the May riots as it was planned over a long period and occurred after the violence ceased.

Residence hit by Molotov cocktails in Lod

Imam of Lod indicted for incitement to violence during riots

The indictment against 63-year-old Imam Yosef Muhammad Elbaz was filed for inciting violence against police on Facebook and for threatening the Deputy Mayor of Lod during the riots.

Sheikh Yosef Elbaz arrested in suspicion of inciting violence, terrorism and making threats arrives for a court hearing at the court in Rishon LeZion on June 17, 2021.

Police solve Lod murder of Yigal Yehoshua

Yehosua became the first Jewish resident of Lod to die from wounds he sustained during the recent wave of Arab riots in the city.

Israeli police seen on the streets of the central Israeli city of Lod, where last night synagogues and cars were torched as well as shops damaged, by Arab residents rioting in the city, still ongoing this evening. May 12, 2021

'Christian Birthright’ returns to Israel

While this delegation is only a dozen young people, Passages said it plans to bring 3,000 Christian supporters to Israel by the end of summer 2022.

Evangelical Christians visit Israel on Passages - June 2021

Lod struggles to find way forward after Israeli-Arab riots

So much in Lod still remains unresolved: why the riots started, who is ultimately responsible and, most importantly, how to move forward.

Coexistence crisis in Lod.

On this day: Japanese terrorists kill 26 in Israel's Lod Airport Massacre

Two of the shooters died during the incident but one, Kozo Okamoto, survived and was taken into custody.

Empty El Al Israel Airlines check-in counters are seen at Ben Gurion International airport in Lod, near Tel Aviv, Israel February 27, 2020.

Public Security Ministry drafts plan to handle possible future unrest

The program includes enlisting about 5000 new police officers over the course of three years, as well as 300 to be enlisted immediately to assist in local authorities.

Israeli police seen on the streets of the central city of Lod, May 12, 2021.

Molotov cocktails thrown at Jewish home in Lod

Video reportedly from the scene showed two suspects throwing Molotov cocktails towards a Jewish home.

Molotov cocktail in hand

Requests for gun licenses spike after violence in Israel’s cities

‘People’s sense of security has gone down,’ says shooting instructor

Israeli police seen on the streets of the central city of Lod, May 12, 2021.