116case filesUpdated Jul 14, 2026
Casepin holds 116 case files in Israel. By legal status, 10 marked unsolved, 2 marked cold, 4 marked ongoing, 99 marked solved and 1 marked overturned.
Credit: Yaakov Saar, Government Press Office (Israel)CC BY-SA 3.0SourceSOLVEDListenKings of Israel Square (now Rabin Square), Tel Aviv · 1995
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was shot and killed on 4 November 1995 in Tel Aviv by Yigal Amir, a far-right law student opposed to the Oslo Accords, as Rabin left a peace rally. Amir was convicted and sentenced to life; two associates were convicted of conspiracy.
Kerem Shalom Crossing area, Israel–Gaza border · 2006
On 25 June 2006, Palestinian militants used a tunnel to attack Israeli military positions near the Kerem Shalom Crossing, killing two IDF soldiers and capturing wounded soldier Gilad Shalit, who was held in Gaza until his release in a 2011 prisoner exchange.
Credit: Wilson44691Public domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenHighway 12 near Eilat, southern Israel (Israel–Egypt border area) · 2011
On August 18, 2011, militants carried out a series of coordinated attacks on Highway 12 near Israel's border with Egypt, killing eight Israelis; Israeli forces killed several attackers and, in the pursuit, also killed five Egyptian soldiers, triggering a diplomatic crisis and a wave of cross-border violence with Gaza.
Credit: Haim Nachshoni (חיים נחשוני)CC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenKfar Aza kibbutz, Israel · 2023
Emily Damari, a British-Israeli woman, was abducted from her home in Kfar Aza during the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel and held hostage in Gaza for over 15 months before her release in January 2025 under a ceasefire deal.
Credit: DGtalCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenRoute 383 (Kiryat Malachi-Beit Shemesh road) near moshav Gefen · 1996
Yaron and Efrat Ungar, a married Israeli couple, were shot and killed in a drive-by attack near Beit Shemesh, Israel, on June 9, 1996, while their one-year-old son, who was in the car, survived.
Credit: BekmawCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenHyatt Regency Hotel (later Dan Jerusalem Hotel), Jerusalem · 2001
Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi was shot dead at a Jerusalem hotel on 17 October 2001 by a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) squad, in what the group said was revenge for Israel's killing of PFLP leader Abu Ali Mustafa. The four assassins were eventually convicted in Israel and given long prison terms.
SOLVEDListenRe'im area / Nova music festival site, Israel · 2023
Shani Louk, a 22-year-old German-Israeli tattoo artist, was killed by Hamas militants during the 7 October 2023 attack on the Nova music festival; a video showing her body paraded through Gaza City became one of the first viral images of the Gaza war, before her death was confirmed and her body recovered from a Gaza tunnel in May 2024.
Credit: Cecil Beaton / Imperial War MuseumPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenAl-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem · 1951
King Abdullah I of Jordan was fatally shot at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on 20 July 1951 by a 21-year-old Palestinian gunman, who was killed at the scene by the king's bodyguards. Ten men were later accused of plotting the killing, eight stood trial, and six were sentenced.
Credit: Shayshal2CC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenNahal Oz, Israel · 2023
On 7 October 2023, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants attacked the Nahal Oz military base and adjacent kibbutz near the Gaza border, killing more than 60 Israeli soldiers and 15 civilians and taking soldiers and civilians hostage into Gaza.
Credit: YnhockeyCC BY-SA 3.0SourceSOLVEDListenBeit Rimon junction, Lower Galilee, Northern District · 2003
Corporal Oleg Shaichat, a 20-year-old Israeli soldier, was abducted and killed in the Galilee in July 2003, and one member of the cell responsible was later convicted and sentenced to 50 years.
The files run from 1834 to 2024. The 2000s hold the most, with 38 files. The oldest is Killing of Moshe Barsky, from 1913.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (59), kidnapping and abduction cases (19) and mass shooting cases (12).
2 files of the 116 have coverage attached: 2 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 1 creator.
Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. If you hold information about an unsolved case, contact the investigating agency named in its file rather than posting it publicly. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
This page updates from the published files, so counts and statuses change the day a record does. Open any file for its timeline, its sources and the coverage worth your time, or play it as a narrated case file.
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Israel outline jerusalem — Credit: YnhockeyCC BY-SA 3.0Source
הפיגוע בתחנה מרכזית חדרה — Credit: ניר ודלCC BY-SA 4.0Source
116. By status: 10 unsolved, 2 cold, 4 ongoing, 99 solved and 1 overturned. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Killing of Moshe Barsky, from 1913. Open the file
Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, with 1 video, podcast or documentary linked from its file. Open the file
7NEWS Spotlight (1 case).
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 14, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
