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Apr. 19, 2021 5:27 PM
A Tel Aviv court extended on Monday the detention of two Jaffa residents suspected of assaulting a local yeshiva head, in what police have dubbed as a racially-motivated attack. The suspects, Ahmed and Mohammed Garboua, deny any racial motives behind the Sunday attack, which ignited protests and clashes in the city, against the backdrop of plans to sell a building in the traditionally Arab neighborhood of Ajami to a Jewish yeshiva.
Tel Aviv Magistrate s Court Judge Or Mammon said evidence presented to him likely links the suspect to the assault, but added that their denial of racial motivation sounds plausible.
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Feb. 25, 2021
The police arrested a 21-year-old man on Wednesday over suspicions that he raped a 13-year-old girl in a government facility in Jaffa intended for young people who are sick with the coronavirus and do not live with their families or are under the care of the Social Services Ministry.
The police said they opened an investigation after they received the report about the alleged rape. Both the girl, who lives in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, and the man, a resident of southern Israel, were coronavirus patients.
The facility is meant to give young people who have contracted COVID-19 a place to self-isolate, and has separate living areas for male and female residents. It is managed and supervised by staff on behalf of the Social Services Ministry. The police are now investigating where the staff were at the time of the incident.
Illustrative: A psychiatric hospital (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)
Police charged a psychiatric patient for allegedly threatening the life of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, based on comments he muttered to himself and to cats at the institution where he is hospitalized, a report said Tuesday.
At a remand hearing on the case, a Tel Aviv judge said he did not believe the threat was serious or credible since the patient has previously been deemed mentally unfit for trial. The judge criticized police for pushing the indictment, the Haaretz daily reported, and refused to remand the suspect into custody.
The patient has denied saying he would hurt the prime minister.