The Israel Police launched the investigation in the wake of a report in Haaretz showing suggesting that former Israel Bar Association chief Efi Nave and then-District Court Judge Eitan Orenstein were engaged in an illegal scheme to appoint their cronies.
Five family members are shot dead in their home in the Bedouin village of Basmat Tab'un, in apparent retaliation for the shooting of a man in Haifa earlier in the day.
Municipalities will be designated according to crime levels, with more supervision and oversight in localities with higher levels of involvement by criminal elements.
Law enforcement had made the request for the spyware to fight the surging level of lawlessness in the Arab sector.
Leifer is a "serious sexual offender" who had shown a "callous indifference" to the suffering of her victims, Judge Mark Gamble says.
“We will use all means, including the Shin Bet and the police, to defeat this criminal phenomenon," PM says after the murder of two political figures from the Arab community in just two days.
One of the victims was Ghazi Sa'ad, who was running for mayor in the upcoming municipal elections in Abu Snan.
Mark most likely caused by shoe pressed against suspect's face, police says, as forces had no choice but use force as detainee violently resisted arrest.
Three more are severely to moderately injured in the shooting, including the apparent targets of the attack – Avi Bitton, a senior member of a local crime family, and his son Yarin.
"Since COVID, society in general has become more violent, and there has definitely been an increase in the level of violence and the danger is spreading," one official says.