Israel police scandal

Chief prosecutor warns police watchdog must remain independent as reform faces court challenge

Mahash is the body responsible for investigating suspected criminal offenses by the police, including cases involving alleged police violence, corruption, and abuse of authority, among other things.

Mahash, the Police Internal Investigations Department, in Jerusalem on November 30, 2025.
THE ISRAEL POLICE conducts its high-level investigations through Lahav 433, the country’s ‘FBI,’ headquartered in this building in Lod.

Police investigate Lahav 433 officer accused of sexually harassing subordinate policewoman - report

Former chief of police Roni Alsheikh.

Former police commissioner questioned under suspicion of employing illegal resident

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Israel Police 'in uproar' as high-ranking officer interrogated over severe abuse of power suspicion


Two border policemen indicted for assaulting suspected terrorist

Muslim clerics arrested in investigation of Saturday stabbings.

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Officer who attacked Arab driver on video expected to be indicted

Footage of the incident emerged on Thursday morning of a Cohen violently confronting 50-year-old Mazen Shwiki.

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Jewish cop allegedly attacked Arab colleague at Purim party

The incident at an event hall is now under investigation by the Ministry of Justice Police Internal Investigations Unit, which declined to comment.

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Four police officers suspected of sexual assault

The alleged offenses, originally reported by Channel 1, took place a few months ago at the the Jerusalem police station.

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Three policemen indicted for aggravated assault

According to the indictment, one officer punched a man and attacked him with a hammer, shattering his hand and knee.

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Police commissioner’s plan to command elite investigative unit draws criticism

Ex-police officials: Restructuring a "deliberate weakening" of investigations.

Police Chief Roni Alsheich at the Israel Bar Association Conference at the David Intercontinental Hotel in Tel Aviv

Beduin allege police frame-up in teacher’s death

In 1956, the same families were forced off their land in the Wadi Zbala area of the Negev and relocated by the army to what became Umm al-Hiran.

BEDUIN TAKE part in a rally marking Land Day in Umm al-Hiran in March.

Netanyahu to be questioned again on Friday

Earlier, the PM said: "Long years of persecution turned out to be nothing."

Benjamin Netanyahu

Public Defender slams Israel Police for brutality, rights abuses

The report notes a number of deficiencies in the country’s criminal justice system, including too many indictments, police brutality and the violation of suspects' rights.

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Comment: The ‘natural’ excuse for Israeli racial profiling

Smart police work doesn’t involve castigating a whole community as suspicious, it involves educating police not to be naturally suspicious.

Police Chief Roni Alsheich at the Israel Bar Association Conference at the David Intercontinental Hotel in Tel Aviv