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Police and Thieves
Wednesday Apr 10, 2013
“Tell me, do the Israelis still care about the Alperons? They're nobodies now, nobody thinks of them anymore,”, the courtroom security guard with a large white knit kippa said to a row of photographers in a corridor at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court last Friday morning.
Downstairs mob princes Dror and Omer Alperon and a friend of theirs named Daniel Gedidian waited to be brought in for...
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Tuesday Mar 19, 2013
A young Israeli man lurked after a teenage girl walking home in the Yemenite Quarter close to midnight Saturday. As the girl made her way up the stairwell of her apartment building on Hakovshim street the man pounced on her and a struggle ensued. The woman began to scream, awakening her mother, who came to the stairwell, causing the would-be rapist to flee into the night, police said.
(Residents of the Hatikvah...
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Tuesday Mar 05, 2013
This could have been a scene straight out of North Korea, or at least that’s what a few of the crime reporters present said.
What should have been an event to honor Tel Aviv’s cops had become a love-in for Israel Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino. Before Israel’s top cop took to the podium, three cherubic little children clad in Tel Aviv Police t-shirts beamed towards the crowd of some 300 uniformed...
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Wednesday Feb 06, 2013
“You see that guy, something’s wrong with that guy,” said “Ronen” a detective from the Lev Tel Aviv police station during a ride-around I went on for a couple hours last week as part of a story on the strangely legal and highly potent drugs sold at Tel Aviv kiosks.
“Why? Is it the hat?” I asked, savoring the rare opportunity to be on the other end of the police gaze.
“No, it...
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Wednesday Feb 06, 2013
A rat the size of a well-fed house cat sent a female reporter from Army Radio dashing across Fein Street one night earlier this week in the heart of the Central Bus Station neighborhood, Tel Aviv’s basin of junkies, homeless African migrants, and bottom-rung prostitutes. The brush with the rodent was one of the few moments of excitement during a tour organized by police for crime reporters, all of whom have been to the area time and...
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About This Blog
Ben Hartman has covered crime, Tel Aviv and African migrants at the Jerusalem Post for the past three years. Before that he worked as a...
Ben Hartman has covered crime, Tel Aviv and African migrants at the Jerusalem Post for the past three years. Before that he worked as a writer and editor at Haaretz.com. Originally from Austin, Texas, he moved to Tel Aviv in 2003, where he lives with his wife and two beepers.
