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From Rutgers speaker to Kristof column, disputed dog rape claim against Israel goes mainstream

A canine training expert told JTA it was “highly unlikely” that a dog could be trained to carry out sexual assault.

A prison guard with a dog watches as a convoy carrying released Palestinian prisoners leaves the Ktzi’ot Prison in the Negev Desert of Israel, February 27, 2025.
Saif Abu Keshek, who took part in a flotilla to the Gaza Strip, arrives for a remand hearing at the Magistrate's Court in Ashkelon.

Israeli court extends detention of two Gaza flotilla activists until Sunday

 Israel Prison Service chief Kobi Yaakobi attends a National Security committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament on November 20, 2024.

A-G moves to press criminal charges against Israel Prison Service commissioner

 Israel Prison Service chief Kobi Yaakobi attends a National Security committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament on November 20, 2024.

Israel's prison chief Kobi Yaakobi summoned for second hearing ahead of possible indictment


Palestinians say 500 prisoners in Israeli jails to start hunger strike

A senior Palestinian official said prisoners are working to pressure Israel to end its policy of administrative detention.

A Palestinian prisoner, convicted of security offences against Israel, looks out of his cell at Nitzan jail

U.S.-born Jewish terrorist asks for prison furlough for son’s bris

Teitel is serving two life sentences for killing two Palestinians.

INMATES WALK through the Hermon Prison in northern Israel last week.

Overcrowding ‘unprecedented crisis’ says Israel Prison Services

IPS: No room left by next December without court-ordered expansion.

Prison

Smuggled sperm allows Palestinian prisoners to become fathers

Sixty-three children reportedly born via IVF treatment

Palestinian protesters wave their national flag outside of an Israeli prison

Thousands of prisoners with hepatitis C do not receive medication

The Prison Service treated only 10 to 20 prisoners last year.

INMATES WALK through the Hermon Prison in northern Israel last week.

Life after work: Israel opens retirement home for security dogs

What happens to these dogs once they are too old, sick, or injured to perform?

Prison service employees at the inauguration of the security dogs retirement home in Damon Prison on July 4, 2017.

Raising the bars - inside Israel's high security prisons

Nafha Prison’s deputy warden Yariv Cohen, who is in charge of many security prisoners and terrorists, talks of life in jail from his perspective.

Nafha Prison’s deputy warden Yariv Cohen

Parole board to decide Thursday on releasing ex-PM Olmert

Olmert, who is serving a 27-month sentence for bribery, fraud, and other charges, is requesting his sentence be reduced by a third.

Ehud Olmert

Former PM Olmert to remain hospitalized

After being examined by a doctor at Ma’asiyahu Prison in Ramle, where he is serving a 27-month sentence for two counts of bribery, Olmert was transferred to the hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert

De l’urgence de repenser les prisons

Comment mettre un terme aux grèves de la faim parmi les détenus ? Eléments de réponse avec Orit Adato, anciennement à la tête de l’administration pénitentiaire

Marwan Barghouti entouré de gardiens de prison