Bat yam

Tel Aviv police arrest additional suspect in Japanika grenade attack case

The suspect, a Bat Yam resident in his 20s, was taken for questioning by the Tel Aviv District Central Unit and will be brought before the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.

A view of a Japanika restaurant branch owned by businessman Barak Abramov that was damaged in a shooting in Herzliya, central Israel, July 14, 2026.
Image from the arrest of a Bat Yam resident, charged with sexual offenses against his two granddaughters

Israel Police arrest man linked with committing serious sexual offenses against his granddaughters

 An illustrative image of an Israel Police officer.

Knife-wielding suspect charges police officers in criminally motivated attack in Bat Yam

Israel Police vehicles; illustrative.

Police thwart attempted motorcycle theft in Bat Yam, arrest two suspects


Music on a high

Once a year Bat Yam takes on a very different appearance and persona, as the annual International Street Theater & Art Festival kicks off.

‘Les Girafes’ by the Compagnie Off street arts gang incorporates red, eight-meter versions of the towering beast, augmented by the vocals of an opera singer.

Burgeoning Bat Yam

This suburb of Tel Aviv boasts gorgeous sea-views, reminiscent of the French Riviera.

Bat Yam

Man who employed Palestinian that murdered soldier sentenced by court

Judge says state must deter employers from hiring illegal Palestinian laborers, due to threat of "lone wolf" attacks.

Restaurant where Tomer Hazan worked

Catching the wave

HaGal Sheli in Tel Aviv and Bat Yam teaches at-risk youth how to surf.

HaGal Sheli in Tel Aviv and Bat Yam teaches at-risk youth how to surf.

Court gives former Bat Yam mayor Lahiani 8 months jail time on state appeal

48-year-old faces sentence on breach of public trust and fraud.

Shlomi Lahiani

Police call for public's help in search for missing 78-year-old, Avraham Cohen

Bat Yam resident is of slim build and about 5'9" tall with blue eyes and white hair; he was last seen wearing a blue jacket and light-colored pants.

Avraham Cohen

Border Police officer kills wife, self in Bat Yam

28-year-old shoots wife and then takes his own life; woman is an employee of the Israel Prison Service.

Gun [illustrative] 370

Police: Bat Yam man murders brother over car price

Victim stabbed outside mini-market he owned by brother, after two fought over few thousand shekels difference in price of a used car.

Albert Ben-Sheetrit

Design Terminal opens in Bat Yam

Handpicked artisans at the new studio and retail facility also volunteer in local schools, teaching skills from PhotoShop to knitting.

Children’s designer Sarit Lulae 521

Egyptian court sentences Israeli to 2 years jail

24-year-old Andrei Pshenichnikov, a reported left-wing activist, sentenced to serve in prison after illegally crossing into Sinai.

Tourists cross the Egypt-Israel Taba border crossing 370 (R)