Explore documented criminal cases from Israel with source-backed chronology, verified legal-status labels and a victim-aware editorial approach. The archive distinguishes completed adjudication from open or materially unresolved cases rather than treating arrests, allegations or preliminary rulings as final outcomes.
A case appears under Solved / Adjudicated only when reliable records support a sufficiently definitive investigative or legal outcome. Arrest, accusation or a press label alone is not enough. Cases with unresolved responsibility, open investigations or materially incomplete outcomes belong under Unsolved / Partial.
Six members of the Ushrenko family, spanning three generations, were murdered in their Rishon LeZion home in October 2009. Damian Karlik was convicted of six murders and received six consecutive life sentences plus ten years for additional offenses.
Open case file →Michal Halimi, a pregnant Israeli woman from Adam, disappeared in May 2017 and was later found murdered near Holon. Muhammad Harouf pleaded guilty under an amended indictment that treated the killing as nationally motivated and received life imprisonment.
Open case file →Nineteen-year-old Israeli soldier Moshe Tamam was abducted while on leave in August 1984 and later killed near Mevo Dotan. Members of a PFLP-affiliated cell were convicted and received life sentences, while the record distinguishes the group's command role from the men who physically carried out the killing.
Open case file →Photography student Vardit Beckerknut, 27, was murdered in 1993 after hitchhiking home from Tel Aviv. The case remained unsolved for more than 25 years until new DNA analysis led police to Valery Sakovic; he admitted murder in a 2022 plea agreement and received a life sentence.
Open case file →Yaakov 'Jack' Teitel was convicted in Jerusalem of murdering two Palestinians in 1997 and carrying out additional attempted murders and bomb attacks through 2008. He received two consecutive life terms plus 30 years, upheld on appeal in 2016.
Open case file →Israeli soldier Eden Atias was killed on a public bus in Afula in November 2013. A Palestinian teenager was convicted of murder by a military court and sentenced in 2014 to life imprisonment plus three years.
Open case file →British exchange student Hannah Bladon, 20, was murdered on Jerusalem's light rail in April 2017. Jamil Tamimi admitted the killing under a plea agreement, was sentenced to 18 years in prison and died in custody in 2022.
Open case file →Shelly Dadon, 20, was killed after taking a taxi toward a job interview in Migdal HaEmek in May 2014. Taxi driver Hussein Khalifa was convicted of murder, sentenced to life imprisonment in 2015 and lost his Supreme Court appeal in 2016.
Open case file →Maya Vishniak, 22, was killed by her partner Amit Almog in Ramat Gan in May 2020. After years of disputed mental-responsibility claims, Almog admitted intentional murder in 2025 and was sentenced to 25 years in prison in July 2026.
Open case file →Dafna Meir, a 38-year-old nurse and mother of six, was killed at the entrance to her home in Otniel in January 2016. A 16-year-old Palestinian youth was convicted of murder and illegal knife possession and received a life sentence later that year.
Open case file →Seventeen-year-old Noa Eyal was murdered in Jerusalem in 1998. The case remained unsolved for 16 years until a familial-DNA search led investigators to Daniel Nachmani, whose conviction and life sentence were upheld by Israel's Supreme Court in 2021.
Open case file →Four-year-old Rose Pizem disappeared in Israel in 2008 and was later found dead in a suitcase recovered from the Yarkon River. Ronny Ron and Rose's mother, Marie Pizem, ultimately received life sentences, and Israel's Supreme Court upheld Ron's murder conviction while convicting Marie as a joint perpetrator in 2014.
Open case file →Ali Saad Dawabsheh, 18 months old, and his parents Saad and Riham died after their family home in Duma was firebombed in July 2015. Amiram Ben-Uliel was convicted of three murders and his appeal was rejected by Israel's Supreme Court in 2022.
Open case file →Nineteen-year-old Ori Ansbacher was raped and murdered in a wooded area on Jerusalem's southern edge in February 2019. Arafat Irfaiya pleaded guilty and was sentenced in 2023 to life imprisonment plus 20 years.
Open case file →Social worker Michal Sela was murdered by her husband Eliran Malul in their Motza-area home in October 2019. He was convicted of aggravated murder in 2021 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Open case file →Dana Bennett disappeared in Tiberias in August 2003. Her remains were found six years later, and Yahya Adwan Farhan was convicted of her kidnapping and murder; the conviction was upheld on appeal.
Open case file →Sixteen-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir was abducted and murdered in Jerusalem in July 2014. Yosef Haim Ben-David and two minors were convicted; their convictions and prison sentences were upheld on appeal.
Open case file →Sixteen-year-old Shira Banki died after being stabbed at the Jerusalem Pride Parade in July 2015. Yishai Schlissel was convicted of her murder and six attempted murders and sentenced to life plus 31 years.
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Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated after a peace rally in Tel Aviv on November 4, 1995. Yigal Amir was convicted of murder in March 1996 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Open case file →A masked gunman opened fire at Tel Aviv's Bar Noar LGBT youth center on August 1, 2009, killing counselor Nir Katz and 16-year-old Liz Troubishi and wounding at least ten others. A 2013 murder prosecution collapsed after police found the state's key witness had fabricated evidence; no shooter has been convicted.
Open case file →Nava Elimelech disappeared while walking to a friend's home in Bat Yam in March 1982. Her murder became one of Israel's most enduring cold cases and was reopened for modern forensic testing in 2019.
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Thirteen-year-old Tair Rada was killed inside her school in Katzrin in December 2006. Roman Zadorov was convicted, later retried and acquitted in 2023; prosecutors declined to appeal, leaving the killer legally unidentified.
Open case file →Case pages prioritize court or government records, institutional archives and established reporting. Core dates, identities and legal outcomes are cross-checked before publication whenever multiple reliable sources are available.
“Solved / Adjudicated” means responsibility has been established through a sufficiently definitive investigative or judicial outcome. It does not mean every collateral appeal, sentence question or historical debate has ended.