Israeli prison service

Israel was unprepared for 10,000 Palestinian security prisoners during war, report finds

Overcrowded prisons and the sudden release of senior Hamas figures during the Gaza war reportedly harmed Israeli security and delayed legal proceedings for October 7 attacks.

 Protesters gather outside Sde Teiman detention facility after some of them broke in, after Israeli military police arrived at the site as part of an investigation into the suspected abuse of a Palestinian detainee, near Beersheba, in southern Israel, July 29, 2024.
Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti gestures before the start of a deliberation at Jerusalem Magistrate's court, January 25, 2012

Ben-Gvir denies claim Marwan Barghouti beaten in prison, but 'proud' of worsening conditions

The Defense Ministry's new rail-mounted robot designed to secure sensitive sites, including prisons, military bases, and border facilities, September 11, 2025.

Israel unveils rail-mounted robot to guard borders, bases, and prisons

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir seen after a visit at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem Old City, during the Tisha B’Av, August 3, 2025.

Ben-Gvir hangs images of ruined Gaza in jails to intimidate Palestinian prisoners, Barghouti claims


Israeli prison guard was sexually assaulted by jailed terrorist, lawyer says

Contrary to earlier reports, the guard's lawyer said that the terrorist had threatened to "hurt her and her family, and to ruin her life."

 A guard opens a door inside a prison that holds foreign prisoners, suspected of being part of the Islamic State, in Hasaka, Syria, January 7, 2020.

Israeli prison guards had 'intimate relations' with jailed terrorist

National Security Minister Ben-Gvir ended female service at Israeli security prisons after reports of 'intimate relations' with terrorists broke.

 View of the Gilboa Prison December 5, 2022.

Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir clash over Palestinians' conditions in Israeli prisons

"[National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir] wants war, he will get it," leaders of security prisoners in Israeli prisons said on Friday. 

 L: Otzma Yehudit leader MK Itamar Ben Gvir. R: Likud leader, former-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israeli prisons face overcrowding crisis as renovations frozen

A delay in renovation construction was ordered in the hopes of freeing up 200 more spots for convicts to alleviate overcrowding.

 Palestinian prisoners wait to be released from Ketziot prison, southern Israel, October 1, 2007.

Prisons in crisis with overcrowding, abject conditions - public defender

There are about 16,000 inmates incarcerated in Israel Prison Service facilities, around 1,500 more than the maximum occupancy capacity standard for 14,500 inmates. 

 View of the Shita prison, located next to Gilboa,and intended for 800 primarily security convicts.

Ben-Gvir accuses Israeli prison commissioner of 'revenge'

Ben-Gvir's people accused prison commissioner Katy Perry of putting Jewish prisoners in a cell with bedbugs to get back at him.

 Chief of police Kobi Shabtai and Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir at a ceremony of new appointments and ranks of the Israeli Police, in Jerusalem, last week.

Prison, Employment services join forces to help ex-convicts stay out of prison

Only 38% of employers believe released prisoners can be rehabilitated and only 12.3% said they were willing to employ ex-convicts.

 Israeli inmates work at the Magen Nitzan Prison chocolate factory.

Inmates riot, clash with guards in Beersheba prison riot

The guards reacted by forcefully entering the prison cells and removing leaders of the riots from there, in order to disperse the riots.

 Prison riot in Eshel Prison in Beersheba, June 9, 2023.

Gilboa committee calls to fire commander in 2021 prison break report

The Gilboa prison break has seen intense public and governmental scrutiny leveled against Israel's prison services.

 The Gilboa Prison Investigation Committee.

Khader Adnan's death in prison: A preventable crisis - opinion

A number of democratic countries permit force-feeding to rescue the life of a fasting prisoner. Israel could have saved Khader Adnan's life.

 PALESTINIANS PROTEST outside the offices of the Red Cross in Hebron, last Thursday, following the death of hunger striker Khader Adnan