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


Police do damage control after Alsheich remarks

Many in Ethiopian Israeli community still not satisfied.

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

Police accused of withholding information on sex crimes to boost public image

The Haaretz report cites several cases of alleged rape and sexual assault in which the police did not issue a statement.

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Report: Big name to be questioned soon in PM's probe

Investigation reportedly shifts to Netanyahu's wife and son.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Knesset cabinet meeting

Former deputy police chief indicted for sexual harassment

According to the indictment, which Mor has confessed to as part of a plea bargain, he told lower-ranked women he could advance their careers in an effort to get them to interact with him sexually.

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Arab MKs, NGOs, furious over violent arrest of Beduin in Tel Aviv

“It derives from the fact that for the police, Arab citizens are often identified as a threat and less as citizens,” Abraham Fund director says.

A clash between Border Police officers  and an Arab worker in Tel Aviv

Court convicts top police official of sexual harassment

Mualem knew the policewoman-victim of his sexual harassment as part of his role as a police commander and started to exploit his higher rank and older age to pressure as early as March 2015.

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Ya’alon: We must encourage sexual harassment victims to come forward

The Israel Police is not actually the body responsible for investigating criminal complaints issued against police officers, rather it is the Justice Ministry’s Police Investigative Department.

Sexual harassment victim [Illustrative]

Police and Thieves: On accusing the accuser

"Stubborn self-destructiveness is not rare."

Silvan Shalom

Minister Shalom denies sexual harassment charges

Vice premier's office says the report merely recycles past charges that derailed his 2014 race for president.

Silvan Shalom and his wife Judy

Police accused of roughing up activist

The group called Honeinu said one of its activists, Yitzhak Hazot, was taken into custody as he sought to enter the court to observe or assist with the legal proceedings.

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