"In Rahat, we are taking care of the mosquitos but we aren't draining the swamp, so why are we surprised at the non-stop, indiscriminate shooting over there?" a senior Israel Police official tells Israel Hayom.
The five, residents of Safed, drove to a nearby Arab village and torched vehicles at a scrapyard. They were caught by police a short while later.
In 2020, police handled an average of 13 violations of restraining orders per day.
Parents in central Israel say cases appear to involve attempt to forcibly take children into cars.
Religious Zionist Party leader Bezalel Smotrich: The sight of a torched synagogue comes from the darkest times in the Jewish people's history. The government's indifference toward antisemitic incidents in the heart of Israel is unacceptable.
"Shimon Hayut is a fraud who stole our family's identity and has tried to exploit our good name to con victims out of millions of dollars," says Chagit Leviev. "He has no relation to the Leviev family and has no affiliation with our company LLD Diamonds."
Israel Police have carried out actions against 386 targets since Operation "Safe Route" to contain crime among Arab Israelis launched in 2021.
Brunel was detained at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport in 2020 as part of a broad French probe unleashed by the US sex-trafficking charges against the US financier.
Commander of the Judea and Samaria District Police Department, Deputy Commissioner Uzi Levy, says Public Security Minister Omer Barlev is not prioritizing settler violence against Palestinians, and that as a result, his department was not investing additional manpower and resources to fighting the phenomenon.
Twenty-one percent of investigations into sexual offenses over the last four years concerned allegations of rape, 25% concerned sexual harassment, and 49% concerned indecent acts, according to police data.
