29-year-old Rahat resident and medical graduate allegedly fled police on Route 77, ramming a patrol car before being stopped. An M16 rifle matching parts found in his vehicle was later recovered.
Police suspect Rahat resident married 10 women over the years, including five non-Israeli residents, and harbored women staying in Israel illegally.
After receiving a report of gunfire on a vehicle, police raid complex and find M-16 assault rifle hiding in Beouin town preschool sandbox.
Dozens of Rahat residents attempted to block MK Tzvi Succot from visiting area during parliamentary oversight tour.
Knesset Education Committee Chairman MK Tzvi Succot (Religious Zionist Party) on Saturday strongly criticized the municipality of Rahat after it decided to close all schools on Sunday ahead of a planned visit by the committee.
An indictment filed this week accuses an IDF reservist of unlawfully removing his military-issued weapon from base and transferring it to another individual, allegedly for use in criminal activity.
The UAL leadership set its priorities for its demands from potential coalition partners, aimed at promoting Arab communities throughout Israel.
Police and Shin Bet investigation finds Rahat resident operated social media accounts to spread inciting messages, praise terrorism, and support Hamas’s objectives.
The Regavim Movement has appealed to government ministers, claiming that the Gerar stream has become a dumping ground for waste, allegedly under the auspices of the city of Rahat.
The Southern District Attorney's Office filed a serious indictment against a Rahat resident and senior IDF commanders, for aiding the enemy in war and smuggling goods into Gaza during wartime.
Five people were murdered in a series of shooting incidents across the Arab sector within a span of just 12 hours, in Segev Shalom, Rahat, Yarka, Lod and Fureidis.
Yoaz Hendel, chairman of the Reservists’ Party, sparks uproar after comparing Bnei Brak to Rahat in the context of loss of governance.
In a wide-ranging affair that came to be known as the Southern Route, a network of arms dealers was exposed that supplied weapons to the southern communities of Rahat and Segev Shalom.
Detectives from the Rahat station arrested several suspects in the arson of vehicles in Givat Bar overnight. It is believed to have been in retaliation for a nearby police operation.
Three Gaza residents who participated in the October 7 massacre and remained in Israel afterwards are arrested in southern Israel.
ISA uncovers network of Israeli Arabs who transferred weapons, funds, to Judea and Samaria under direction of Turkey-based Hamas terrorist.
Terrorists near Rahat in southern Israel hurl rocks at mobile ICU, injuring paramedic.
The Prime Minister has decided to establish the planned supplementary airport to Ben Gurion Airport in the area near Rahat, most likely in the Tze'elim region, after the security establishment opposed the alternative in the Negev.
Rahat mayor clashes with law enforcement agencies during major crackdown on local crime. 'We will restore sovereignty and enforce law in the face of ongoing violence and decades of neglect,' Minister Ben Gvir vows.
Former Rahat mayor Ata Abu Madighem said that Qaid Farhan al-Qadi, the former hostage who was rescued from Gaza on Tuesday, told him that he had been held together with another hostage who died in captivity.
Police arrest woman's husband on suspicion of stabbing his wife in the couple's home.
Israel Police investigating incident in which three Israeli females from Rahat were pelted with rocks and had their car set on fire after accidentally entering Givat Ronen.
Church walls revealed by Israel Antiquities Authority excavations portray 1500-year-old contemporary ships.
The ISA has arrested a nascent terrorist cell with a long list of daring plans for attacks.
50-year-old man, critically wounded in attack at Beit Kama, managed to shoot and neutralize terrorist seconds later
Sergeant First Class (res.) Ahmad Abu Latif, 26, from Rahat, said that the Bedouin community was part of Israel and determined to fight Hamas.
Police arrested a 42-year-old woman from Rahat after they found that three Gazan women were being housed and employed at a factory in southern Israel.
Residents of Rahat, a Bedouin city in southern Israel, are indicted on suspicion of sheltering Gazans who infiltrated Israel on October 7.
Police raid in Bedouin Arab communities unearths weapons, ammunition, hidden in local preschool.
MK Almog Cohen reports that a Skoda-type vehicle cut him off while driving at a high speed near Rahat.
Father and son from Rahat detained after police find guns and ammunition in their home.
Police estimate that shooting was part of a family feud over land.
Teen injured after being hit by vehicle in Be'er Sheva.
Antiquity looters caught digging for treasure and destroying historical evidence, following a southern Bedouin myth.
'A wealthy landowner, overseeing farmsteads in the northern Negev, may have resided on the estate,' excavation directors say.
Police say driver, passengers, were under the influence of alcohol when they ran over and killed Amichai Carmely.
Amichai Carmely, father of two, killed when vehicle rams through checkpoint near Beit Dagan Junction.
Social media post decries Bedouins of Rahat "forgetting that we are the People of Muhammad."
'Harming innocent civilians is a criminal and despicable act of terror,' Bedouin Arab local councils say.
Police investigating circumstances leading to death of Rahat man in Border Police and Shin Bet operation. Ben Gvir: They deserve a medal.
President Isaac Herzog participates in inauguration ceremony of a new auditorium in Rahat, meets members of Desert Stars charity.
Dozens riot in Arab city after police forces discover and confiscate illegal ammunition.
After pro-coexistence Sheikh attacked in Jerusalem, seminary students pay a solidarity visit.
Israeli Arab resident of Bedouin city Rahat charged with attempted murder, possession of knife after arrest by police on way Temple Mount.
Ancient soap-making workshop uncovered in southern Israel, where olive oil was turned into soap 1,200 years ago.
Parts of two Israeli-Arab towns in the Negev and parts of Jaffa declared restricted areas in response to rising coronavirus morbidity rates.
2 police officers wounded when assailants open fire on patrol cars.
Terrorist Adel Abu Hadayeb tried to prepare bomb for use in attack on Israeli hotel he was familiar with from his work nearby as a gardener.
Family of rape victim and attorneys try in vain to receive information according to Victims of Crime Law.
Dep. A-G Dina Zilber warns southern Arab city that separate men's and women's swimming hours is illegal if there are no coed hours.
Rahat resident driving without permit hits pedestrian, flees instead of stopping, abandons his car and reports it stolen to police.
Police officer recalls attack by Bedouin residents of Rahat on Israeli police officers during traffic stop.
Two policemen injured after being attacked with clubs and rocks by residents of Bedouin city.
Some residents of Israeli-Arab towns protest Independence Day, tear down signs. 'For us it is a day of catastrophe, not independence.'
Bus carrying school children in southern Israel suddenly catches on fire, forcing children to flee. No injuries reported.
Authorities catch Bedouin antiquities thieves red-handed at ancient ruins.
Army receives tip that a hospitalized mental patient is, in fact, soldier Guy Hever, who has been missing since 1997.
Beer Sheva court rules Negev Bedouin must compensate State for expenses incurred during evacuation of mosque built on public land.
'I'm in the midst of a divorce, only Noy is in my life ... It's no different from marrying a second, third, or fourth wife.'
Undercover special forces from the Border Police arrested a man in Rahat that was on his way to carry out an attack.
