Israeli-Arabs have increasingly been involved in terrorist activities. 
Police and security personnel disclosed Thursday evening they arrested five Arabs, including two Israeli citizens, who plotted to kill Jewish scientists and pilots. Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) officers, the IDF and police were involved in the joint investigation and arrests.
Plans to carry out the assassinations were in the early stages when the five were arrested, and they had carried out advanced training for a planned shooting attack on IDF soldiers at the Atarot checkpoint near Jerusalem.
Their intended targets included university academics and pilots. The Israeli-Arabs, from Shefaram, east of Haifa, are a 20-year-old student at the Bir Zeit University, near Ramallah, and a 19-year-old who studies in Jordan. The Palestinian Authority (PA) Arabs are from the Ramallah area.
The two Israeli-Arabs raised funds to buy weapons and tried to contact Islamic Jihad headquarters in Syria.
Weapons were confiscated during the arrests.
Israeli-Arabs have increasingly been involved in terrorist activities. Three eastern Jerusalem Arabs carried out separate attacks on Jews this year, including the gruesome massacre of eight students at the Merkaz HaRav yeshiva in the capital.Police swooped down on the Lower Galilee city of Um el Fahm several days ago to arrest members of the Al Aqsa cell of the Islamic Movement for incitement.