Mafia

Killing of mafia head Yushayev leaves Hadera vulnerable to further organized criminal violence

Yushayev was shot dead at a restaurant in Caesarea on August 23. His murder continues to occupy both police investigators and figures in the region's criminal underworld.

Yanis Yushayev
Yanis Yushayev

Police claim to solve murder of Yanis Yushayev, prosecutor's declaration filed against Hazon man

Yanis Yushayev

Caucasian mafia head Yanis Yushayev killed in shooting at Caesarea gas station

Sigfrido Ranucci.

Bomb explodes outside home of top Italian investigative journalist


How Swedish gangs are grooming young girls to make explosives, maim enemy groups

The gangs target “young, blonde, typical” Swedish girls, according to experts.

  Police officers work near the scene where several people were injured after a series of loud bangs that indicated gunfire, according to police, at Vaksala Square in Uppsala, Sweden, April 29, 2025.

Italy's mafia abandoning rivalries to join forces, report says

Italy's mafia has heightened technological expertise, using encrypted communication channels and maintaining contacts with prison inmates through drones.

 Carabinieri members stand guard outside 'La Maddalena' hospital, where Italy's most wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested, in Palermo, Italy, January 16, 2023

Police arrest 38 members of Abu Latif crime family that terrorized the North for 20 years

Police filed 24 indictments against the Abu Latif crime family members for allegedly using blackmail and extortion to obtain local government contracts.

Evidence confiscated by Israel Police as part of the 'Black Billion' raid, February 8, 2023

45 years after the assassination: New evidence surfaces in Palermo Mafia hit case

Piersanti Mattarella was assassinated in front of his home in Palermo while in a car with his wife as they were heading to Epiphany Day Mass.

 Palermo, Italy. New evidence surfaces in high-profile Mafia hit case.

Operation 'Steal Oil': Italian mafia stole 800,000 liters of fuel from NATO pipeline

The fuel was later brought to Italy where it was mixed with diesel and oil and resold illegally to motorists.

Italian police officers [File]

WATCH: Huge 'Black Billion' probe takes down top Israeli mobsters in North

Some 700 police officers, Border Police officers and special forces units all took part in the Wednesday morning raid.

Evidence confiscated by Israel Police as part of the 'Black Billion' raid, February 8, 2023

Meet the former mobster who helped hunt Nazis

Former mobster Myron Sugerman talks about fighting antisemitism and helping Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal in a new documentary.

 MYRON SUGERMAN at his Newark home.

‘Married to the Mob,’ but under a chuppah: A new memoir details a Jewish family’s crime ties

Meet the family whose close ties to Jewish gangsters are chronicled. It's an offer you can't refuse.

 Meyer Lansky, bottom right, lent his services to Jewish leaders looking to counter the American Nazi movement.

Grapevine January 5, 2022: Corruption unmasked – but ignored

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 FOREIGN MINISTRY employees protest against their working conditions.

Is there a cure for the Arab sector's crime crisis?

MIDDLE ISRAEL: The crime crisis in the Arab sector has become a national scourge, and there is a way to beat it.

 ISRAELI-ARABS BLOCK a road in Tel Aviv during a protest last month against violence, organized crime and recent killings in their communities.