Cocaine

IDF reservist indicted over stolen IDF rifle, drug ring that supplied soldiers

What began as an investigation into a stolen M16 evolved into a wider probe that uncovered an alleged drug trafficking network and implicated an IDF officer.

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A stash of cocaine discovered during a police investigation into the trafficking of an M16 rifle taken from an IDF base in northern Israel. August 3, 2026.
Cash, passports, suspected drugs, and electronic devices seized by the Hellenic Coast Guard during a raid on a catamaran near the Greek island of Lefkada.

Four Israelis arrested after illegal drugs found on party boat near Greek island

Four Israelis were among eight foreign nationals arrested after Greek authorities found cocaine, MDMA, cannabis, pills, and cash aboard a catamaran near Lefkada.

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Still from a video of a French Navy sniper shooting the engine of a cocaine smuggling boat, October 18, 2025

European agency advocates using military force to stop maritime 'cocaine highway' - report

This comes as Europe is getting hit by what one DEA officer called “a tsunami of cocaine,” and follows an operation in which a French Navy sniper shot the engine of a high-speed smuggling vessel.

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A line of cocaine is seen being snorted through a rolled up dollar.

US sentences alleged cousin of Bashar Assad to prison for role in narco-terrorism conspiracy

Kassis, 59, is a Lebanon-based drug trafficker who used his connections in Syria to traffic both cocaine and weapons. He laundered his earnings through associates in Colombia.

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Police thwart international cocaine smuggling ring operating in Israel

The cocaine was smuggled into Israel in 140 liters of bottles worth tens of millions of shekels.

JUNE 11, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israel Police thwart cocaine smuggling ring in central Israel

Peru police seize cocaine marked with Nazi swastikas headed for Belgium

Last year alone, Peruvian authorities seized more than 86 tonnes of drugs and illicit substances, including 28 tonnes of cocaine.

MAY 27, 2023ByREUTERS
DRUGS CONFISCATED during Magen Hanegev.

Treatment of cocaine-addicted rats sparks ethics investigation at US university

The experiment was funded by grant money from the US National Institutes of Health.

MAY 23, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Brown rat (Rattus norvegicus).

US woman hides 1.5 kg of cocaine in 'pregnant' belly

When police began to grow suspicious of the woman's claims, she tried to run and escape, cocaine spilling out her fake rubber stomach.

MAY 17, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A line of cocaine is seen being snorted through a rolled up dollar.

How a trip to McDonalds ended in a major drug bust

The drugs had a combined street value of £830,000, which is equivalent to about NIS 3,784,000 or USD 1m.

MAY 12, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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Ancient European civilizations used hallucinogenic drugs – study

The researchers found scopolamine, ephedrine and atropine in three samples out of many they analyzed.

APRIL 8, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Detail of a hair strand.

Israeli sentenced to death in UAE returns home

Kewan was arrested in Dubai in March 2022, two weeks after arriving for her work in graphic design, according to Walla!

MARCH 26, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An El Al plane flying above the clouds.

‘Cocaine Bear’ star Alden Ehrenreich got big break after Spielberg saw him at a bat mitvzah

Ehrenreich, now 33, made a scrappy home movie that he and other friends showed at the bat mitzvah ceremony in 2009.

FEBRUARY 25, 2023ByGABE FRIEDMAN/JTA
DIRECTOR STEVEN SPIELBERG waves to the audience after receiving the Honorary Golden Bear Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 73rd Berlinale International Film Festival, in Berlin, on Tuesday.

How did 4 girls afford jet-setting party life, luxury car? Cocaine - police

Their social media posts reveal a lifestyle full of intense clubbing and exotic travel, but was it all funded by cocaine and ketamine?

JANUARY 23, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR
The young Israeli girls arrested at Ben-Gurion Airport under suspicions of transporting cocaine and ketamine

Mentally disabled Israeli arrested for smuggling 11 kg of cocaine

The nature of the suspect's disability is unknown, though his lawyer has said that he has suffered severely since his time in the IDF.

MAY 11, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A line of cocaine is seen being snorted through a rolled up dollar.