Hariri

Hariri crime gang members arrested on busy Tel Aviv street in daylight operation

Footage circulated from the scene shows several suspects restrained on the ground before being taken into custody by masked police officers.

|ByHODAYA RAN
Law enforcement arrests a member of the Hariri crime organization on suspicion of extortion, threats, and the planting of explosive devices.
Israel police conducting an operation, July 13, 2026.

WATCH: Dozens arrested in ongoing countrywide weapons, drug trafficking raid led by Lahav 433

The operation involves hundreds of Israel Police and Border Police officers, and is expected to arrest dozens of suspects.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, EFRAT FORSHER
Law enforcement arrests a member of the Hariri crime organization on suspicion of extortion, threats, and the planting of explosive devices.

Seven members of Hariri organization indicted for extortion, threats, planting of explosive devices

The filing of indictments and prosecutors’ statements followed a series of raids conducted in Arab villages and the West Bank on April 12, during which 11 suspects were arrested.

|ByGOLDIE KATZ
Israel Police arrest senior organized crime leader, April 2026.

Police arrest Hariri crime family members in raid for extortion, using explosives

The Hariri suspects are also accused of having extorted residents in the Samaria region of the West Bank and demanding payments totaling millions of shekels.

|ByLEO FEIERBERG BETTER

Special court on assassination of former Lebanese PM Hariri files annual progress report

As of mid-February, the Tribunal has heard oral testimony from 47 witnesses and has admitted into evidence written statements of 56 others.

MARCH 10, 2015ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
People take a picture near a large banner hanged next to the grave of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.

PHOTO GALLERY: Former Lebanon PM Hariri returns for anniversary of father's death

Kerry: Hariri "stood for peaceful change and the resolution of differences through conversations - not carnage."

FEBRUARY 14, 2015ByREUTERS
Roses and a Koran laid at the grave of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.

Assad under scrutiny by Lebanese tribunal

Hariri assassination probe enters new stage.

NOVEMBER 15, 2014ByYONAH JEREMY BOB, JPOST.COM STAFF
Bashar Al-Assad

Lebanon forms government after 10-month deadlock

A caretaker government has run the country since former Prime Minister Najib Mikati resigned in March.

FEBRUARY 15, 2014ByREUTERS
Lebanese soldiers at Syria border 370

Hariri warns Hezbollah against dragging Lebanon into 'sectarian holocaust'

Influential Sunni leader slams Hezbollah for involvement in Syria civil war, saying it endangers Lebanon.

FEBRUARY 15, 2014ByREUTERS
Saad Harir speaks in front of picture of Rafik 311R