Murder

The murder of Yemanu Zelka: A chilling reflection of Israel’s growing violence - opinion

We are surrounded by violence that is intensifying without anyone stopping it.

PEOPLE GATHER outside a court in Lod, calling for justice following the killing of Yemanu Binyamin Zalka, on May 10, 2026.
A young Iraqi girl who has reached the age of wearing a hijab, is clothed in the head covering worn by many Muslim women for the first time during a ceremony organised at the Basra International Stadium in Iraq's southern city of Basra on December 11, 2025.

Teenage girl murdered after refusing arranged marriage to cousin, Iraqi women’s rights group claims

 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.

Tel Aviv serial killer Mohammed Halabi dies in prison due to medical condition

YEMANU BINYAMIN Zalka, 21, was stabbed in Petah Tikva on Independence Day and later succumbed to his wounds.

Israeli authorities indict 16 teens over Independence Day murder of pizzeria worker


Houthi official threw 13-year-old girl down well, killing her, after marital dispute

A Houthi official in Yemen allegedly murders his 13-year-old daughter in a brutal act following a divorce dispute with his ex-wife.

Supporters of the Iran-backed Houthi movement brandish their weapons as they rally in solidarity with Iran and Lebanon amid the US-Israeli war with Iran, in the capital Sanaa on April 3, 2026.

French appeals court rules that Algerian nanny who poisoned Jewish family not antisemitic

As previously covered by The Jerusalem Post in December 2025, an Algerian nanny was sentenced to two and a half years' imprisonment for poisoning a French Jewish family for whom she was working.

French flag and court gavel in this illustration taken November 5, 2025.

Iranian dissident to ‘Post’: Someone had been sent by Iran’s regime to kill me

The incident took place on the evening of September 2, when he and his wife were at home in Malmö and not expecting visitors.

Arvin Khoshnood, Iranian-Swedish analyst and outspoken critic of the Islamic Republic.

Murder suspect caught hiding in IDF base weeks after the killing

The murder victim was a 32-year-old resident of Rehovot, who had been stabbed one morning in February outside of a club in Tel Aviv.

ILLUSTRATIVE: POLICE ARREST suspect thought to have allowed illegal immigrants through border, November 30, 2025.

Iran steps up executions as experts warn state killing being used to suppress political dissent

Two of those executed on Monday were killed without advance notice, denying them the chance to meet with their lawyers or say goodbye to their families, according to Amnesty International. 

Protesters display a banner calling for a halt to executions in Iran during a rally in Berlin, Germany, on January 10, 2026, in support of the Iran protests.

Police arrest three suspects in Arab community murders

Two of the suspects were arrested following a case from Friday, in which a man in his 50s was shot in Tel Aviv.

ILLUSTRATIVE: POLICE ARREST suspect thought to have allowed illegal immigrants through border, November 30, 2025.

Jaffa man shot to death in 66th Israeli Arab murder this year

The victim's underage son was also shot, receiving moderate leg wounds in the incident, which police suspect is criminal.

This picture taken on April 21, 2021 shows an aerial view of the old city of Israel's Mediterranean coastal city of Jaffa, where French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his soldiers launched an attack between March 3-7, 1799 against the Ottoman-controlled city before capturing it.

Haifa court convicts David Abu Aziz in 2021 murder of attorney Ephraim Arnon

Abu Aziz was also convicted of aggravated wounding for injuring Arnon’s widow as she tried to fend off the attackers, and of obstruction of justice for the disposal of evidence after the killing.

View of the empty courtroom at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on July 13, 2025.

TV murder series rekindles interest in the mysteries of the Nebra sky disc

The real story of its finding unfolded in the late 1990s on the forested crest of the Mittelberg in Saxony-Anhalt, where the object lay concealed for thousands of years.

The Nebra dky disc

Lawyers for Bondi shooting suspect seek ban on naming his family

Lawyers for Naveed Akram on Monday requested a court in Sydney prohibit the publication of the names of his mother, brother and sister, as well as their home address and places of work and schooling.

One of the suspected shooters in the Bondi Beach mass shooting, December 14, 2025.