Hariri

Seven members of Hariri organization indicted for extortion, threats, planting of explosive devices

The filing of indictments and prosecutors’ statements followed a series of raids conducted in Arab villages and the West Bank on April 12, during which 11 suspects were arrested.

|ByGOLDIE KATZ
Law enforcement arrests a member of the Hariri crime organization on suspicion of extortion, threats, and the planting of explosive devices.
Israel Police arrest senior organized crime leader, April 2026.

Police arrest Hariri crime family members in raid for extortion, using explosives

The Hariri suspects are also accused of having extorted residents in the Samaria region of the West Bank and demanding payments totaling millions of shekels.

|ByLEO FEIERBERG BETTER
Border Police officers in Jerusalem, March 30, 2025 (illustration).

Police to indict five members of Hariri crime group in ‘Prince’ extortion case

Those set to be charged are Marad Hariri, 41, from Umm el-Fahm; Nabil Arian, 31, from Arara; Yosef Hadidja, 33, from Kalansuwa; Mohammed Akel, 37, from Arara; and Murtada Akel, 26, also from Arara.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Iran's top nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi attends a meeting of the JCPOA Joint Commission in Vienna, Austria, June 28, 2019.

Iranian FM Abbas Araqchi announces support for a ceasefire in Lebanon amid Beirut visit

Tehran supports a ceasefire that would be 'acceptable to the Lebanese people' and synchronized with one in Gaza.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, REUTERS

Assad under scrutiny by Lebanese tribunal

Hariri assassination probe enters new stage.

NOVEMBER 15, 2014ByYONAH JEREMY BOB, JPOST.COM STAFF
Bashar Al-Assad

Lebanon forms government after 10-month deadlock

A caretaker government has run the country since former Prime Minister Najib Mikati resigned in March.

FEBRUARY 15, 2014ByREUTERS
Lebanese soldiers at Syria border 370

Hariri warns Hezbollah against dragging Lebanon into 'sectarian holocaust'

Influential Sunni leader slams Hezbollah for involvement in Syria civil war, saying it endangers Lebanon.

FEBRUARY 15, 2014ByREUTERS
Saad Harir speaks in front of picture of Rafik 311R