Tag Archive for carjacking

| June 22, 2016
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Private security firm employs drones to retrieve stolen cars

 

After Israel Police allowed Ituran, a local car tracking & security company, to use drones to track stolen cars, the firm successfully carried out an operation to locate & retrieve a stolen Israeli car in Tulkarem, a major Palestinian city.

By Udi Etzion

 

Authorities have now permitted private security companies to operate drones. Mamon, Ynet’s sister publication, learned that Ituran, a company that provides tracking and protection services for vehicles, has successfully employed drones to locate stolen car in the past few weeks.

Drones are now providing the largest stolen car tracking companies in Israel with capabilities that had been previously limited to the security forces. Continue Reading »

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| December 4, 2013
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3 Palestinian Arabs hijack car with baby in back

 

After mother is forced out of car she calls husband. Then father with friend enter hostile Arab village, finds his car abandoned with daughter sitting safely inside.

Father: ‘I wasn’t scared. I was only thinking about one thing – my daughter’s life’.

By Akiva Novick

Three Palestinian men hijacked a Dolev resident’s car Tuesday, when in the back seat sat her three-month-old daughter.

The car that was hijacked (Photo: Police Spokesperson)

The car that was hijacked – Photo: Police Spokesperson

The baby’s life was saved due the father’s resourcefulness, who found his daughter in the car, abandoned, between two hostile villages.

The incident happened in the Binyamin Hills Tuesday afternoon, around 4 pm. Continue Reading »

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| February 20, 2013
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Arab Gang Kidnapped & Beat Israeli Cabbie

A Palestinian Authority gang kidnapped a 70 year-old Israeli taxi driver, beat him, & then threw him out along the road to Ramallah.

By Maayana Miskin

 

Two Palestinian Authority resident Arab men have been arrested in connection to the kidnapping and beating of an elderly Israeli cab driver. The attack in question took place in January, but was under a gag order until Wednesday.

 

The attack began when the cab driver, 70, picked up three Arab men as passengers. The three asked him to stop, then pounced on him and tied a rope around his neck and beat him. Continue Reading »

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| February 19, 2013
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Women Drivers Escape Terrorist Ambush

Jewish women drivers escaped  Palestinian Authority gang’s carjacking attempts.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Palestinian Authority resident criminal gangs continue to target Israeli drivers for theft, and women traveling alone in particular. Two women escaped attempted carjackings at the last minute on Monday evening.

The two told Arutz Sheva their stories.

“At around 9 p.m. I passed through the Hizme junction on my way home, and suddenly I lost control of the car,” one recalled. “There was something on the road that made the car slip sideways.”

She pulled over to see what was wrong, and a car immediately pulled up behind her. Continue Reading »

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| November 11, 2012
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Arab Attacks & Stabs Israeli Woman in Jerusalem

An Arab terrorist stabbed an Israeli woman in her 30s during an attempted carjacking in the French Hill neighborhood of Jerusalem.

By David Lev

 

An Arab terrorist attacked and stabbed an Israeli woman in her 30s during an attempted carjacking in the French Hill neighborhood of Jerusalem Sunday afternoon. The woman was taken to Hadassah Mt. Scopus Hospital for treatment. Doctors said she suffered light wounds, and would likely be released later Sunday.

The incident occurred outside the Jinogli school in French Hill. Witnesses told Arutz Sheva that the woman was sitting in a vehicle with two children, waiting for her husband, who was finishing up a meeting inside the building. Continue Reading »

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