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  • One dead, six wounded in various crime-related shootings in Israel over the weekend

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    All of the incidents reportedly had criminal, rather than nationalistic or terroristic, motivations.

    One person was killed and a total of six people were wounded in various shooting incidents in Israel over the weekend.

    According to Israeli media, all of the incidents had criminal, rather than nationalistic or terroristic, motivations.

    In one of the incidents, two people were wounded on Saturday evening in a shooting in the Clock Tower area of Jaffa.

    Magen David Adom (MDA) announced that its paramedics subsequently arrived at the scene to provide treatment to the two victims. One of the victims was a 25-year-old man who was in serious condition. The other victim was lightly wounded. Both were evacuated to Wolfson Medical Center in Tel Aviv.

    The attacker reportedly fled the scene.

    A Magen David Adom ambulance, pictured in March 28, 2024; illustrative. (credit: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

    Sole death over the weekend was in Nazareth

    The incident in Jaffa comes hours after 20-year-old Bassel Ashraf Faraoni was shot and killed in Nazareth, Israeli media reported. Another victim in the area, also about 20, was wounded in the incident and evacuated to a nearby hospital. MDA paramedics determined Faraoni’s death immediately upon their arrival at the scene.

    Only minutes after the incident in Nazareth, another three people were wounded in a shooting in Ramle. According to MDA, the victims’ conditions varied from light to moderate after the incident. The three were evacuated to Shamir Medical Center in Be’er Ya’akov.

    Police have opened an investigation into both incidents.

    Faraoni’s death raises the number of Arabs killed in 2025 from criminal incidents to 231, according to the Abraham Initiatives, which tracks violent incidents in Israel’s Arab sector.

    According to the group, 21 of the victims killed were women, 115 were 30 years old or younger, seven were below the age of 18, and 12 of the victims were shot by police officers.

    Exactly one year ago, the number of Arab deaths was 215, which the Abraham Initiatives noted is “an increase of more than 7% compared to last year.”

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  • 23-year-old Dead Sea hotel employee arrested under suspicion of spying for Iran

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    Additionally, indictments were filed against two others who were reportingly working with the Islamic Republic.

    A 23-year-old Israeli who works at a hotel at the Dead Sea was arrested this week on suspicion of spying for Iran, Israel Police announced on Friday.

    Lahav 433 and the Shin Bet conducted the investigation, and revealed that he had been in contact with Iranian intelligence officials for some time and had carried out missions under their direction.

    According to the police statement, the Israeli citizen carried out “collection missions” for the Islamic Republic at the hotel where he worked.

    He had also reportedly taken photographs of the hotel and its surroundings for Iranian intelligence.

    Two others indicted the same day for spying for Iran

    KAN additionally reported on Friday that another civilian, Tal Amram, 26, and an IDF reservist, Maor Kringel, 27, had indictments filed against them.

    THE EROSION of the Dead Sea. (credit: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

    Both of them are residents of Holon, Walla reported.

    Kringel is accused of aiding enemy forces during wartime by providing them with key information. He provided Iranian agents with documentation and locations of ports, stores, shopping malls, private homes, public centers, municipal buildings, and government and judicial bodies, according to KAN.

    The indictment filed by the Tel Aviv District Attorney’s Office said that he maintained contact with Iranian agents from mid-2024 until his arrest last August.

    He had also informed the foreign agents of his reserve service, and provided addresses of the various IDF bases where he had served, Israeli media reported. Other reports in Israeli media said that Kringel was asked by the foreign agents to kill his commander in exchange for NIS 100,000, and that he was invited to attend meetings with Iranian agents in Turkey and Azerbaijan.

    Last January, at the request of the foreign agents, he began recruiting additional Israeli citizens to carry out the missions, including Tal Amram. Amram contacted one of the foreign agents the following month, knowing that he was acting on behalf of an operative hostile to Israel.

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