JERUSALEM (JTA) — Several Jewish teens who study in a West Bank yeshiva high school have been arrested for involvement in the death of a Palestinian mother of nine. Aisha Mohammed Rabi, 47, was killed in mid-October at the Tapuah Junction in the northern West Bank. A rock thrown at the car driven by her husband…
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli security cabinet minister on Thursday denounced the interrogation of left-wing activists at the country’s main airport, and predicted that it would end after the singling-out of a visiting U.S. Jewish columnist stirred controversy. The questioning of Peter Beinart at Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday prompted the Israeli security agency Shin…
Israel’s Shin Bet security service has denied around 250 people entry into the country since the beginning of the year, for reasons such as involvement in terror and fears of spying, according to the Times of Israel. Some of those stopped were Christians, but most “were Muslims, or were in the process of becoming Muslims,”…
The 28-year old Israeli author Moriel Rothman-Zecher, traveling with his wife and infant daughter, was held by the Shin Bet at Ben-Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv this week. Haaretz reports that the agency, also known as the Shabak and charged with safeguarding state security and exposing and interrogating terror suspects, feared Rothman-Zecher’s involvement with…
Gonen Segev, a former Israeli lawmaker, is accused of spying for Iran and aiding the enemy during wartime, the Shin Bet security service said Monday. Segev, a physician who served as energy and infrastructure minister from 1992 to 1995, was jailed for five years in 2005 for trying to smuggle more than 30,000 ecstasy tablets…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Iranian military intelligence operation in the West Bank was planning to carry out terror attacks and was collecting intelligence for the Islamic Republic. The Israel Security Agency, or Shin Bet, on Wednesday revealed that it had uncovered the terror cell working in the Hebron area, which was recruited and financed by…
Israeli torture methods include slapping prisoners, shouting at them and forcing them to squat against a wall handcuffed for long periods of time, according to a Haaretz report that provided a rare look into torture in the Israeli prison system. Haaretz was witness to a conversation among interrogators that yielded new details about how interrogators…
How bad have the tensions gotten between Israel’s security establishment and its political leadership? Pretty bad, and getting worse. Two public events in late June, three days apart, illustrate the depth of the growing animosity. One was a gathering near Tel Aviv of retired senior military and intelligence officers, sponsored by the Council for Peace…
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