{"id":454064,"date":"2026-05-22T05:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/454064\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T05:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:19:09","slug":"a-mayor-took-on-the-mafia-choking-israels-arab-towns-and-nearly-paid-with-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/454064\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mayor Took on the &#8216;Mafia&#8217; Choking Israel&#8217;s Arab Towns \u2013 and Nearly Paid With His Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">More than two months passed before Ahmad Nassar was able to meet. On March 8, he was the victim of an assassination attempt. Following the life-saving surgery on his right leg, which had taken six bullets, he had begun physical therapy to learn how to walk again. He required a skin graft with tissue harvested from his left leg, and he underwent both occupational and psychological therapy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than two months passed before Ahmad Nassar was able to meet. On March 8, he was the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1157,85,46,78062,1158,837,43],"class_list":["post-454064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-arab-israelis","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-crime","tag-israel-police","tag-itamar-ben-gvir","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}