Itamar Ben-Gvir Police Command Sees Surge in Murders and Unsolved Cases

According to recently released police data, the number of criminal homicides rose sharply in 2023 and 2024, and the percentage of solved cases fell.

Police provided the data following a joint request for information from a nonprofit organization called Hatzlacha (“Success”) and Army Radio legal reporter Eli Zilberberg.

The data shows that 52 out of 142 cases were solved in 2022. This represents about 37% of solved cases, excluding cases in which the suspect died or was referred to the prosecutor’s office.

In 2023, 76 out of 274 cases were solved, a rate of about 28%. So far in 2024, 49 of 196 cases have been solved, a rate of about 25%, the data showed.

The list of cases does not reflect the number of civilians murdered, as some cases involved multiple murders. The data showed that 148 people were killed in homicides in 2022; in 2023 the number more than doubled, reaching 300; and 213 people have been killed so far in 2024.

An Israeli police officer is seen arresting a man on a highway (Source: ISRAEL POLICE)

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is responsible for internal security, took office at the end of December 2022, and figures show that under his tenure there has been not only an increase in murder cases, but also a decline in the success rates of the Police came to investigate these cases.

Ben-Gvir’s office did not respond to a request for comment from Zilberberg.

“Serious criminal cases with a focus on homicides are at the top of the police’s priority list. Due to a lack of technical methods and tools, it is difficult to prevent and detect serious crimes,” Israeli police said.

Police noted in their response that they have been banned from using some spyware technologies since allegations emerged in January 2022 that they had used spyware, particularly NSO’s Pegasus, to break into suspects’ cellphones without legal authorization.

A team that investigated the matter found that while the infiltrations themselves were legal, police inadvertently took additional information from the phones that they knew nothing about. Nevertheless, the issue is still awaiting legal regulation.

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Kan News reported on Wednesday that Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara refused to green light a bill by Ben-Gvir and Justice Minister Yariv Levin that would allow the use of spyware, as the proposal also allows the use of spyware to investigate Prohibits corruption in government. According to the report, Ben-Gvir will instead seek to pass private legislation for this purpose through an MK from one of her parties.

In parallel, a government-appointed committee to investigate police use of spyware was temporarily closed by court order after Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara found it had broken the law by flouting a ban on investigate ongoing investigations and legal proceedings.

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