{"id":563154,"date":"2026-07-28T07:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/563154\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T07:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:47:08","slug":"man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-possessing-child-sexual-abuse-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/563154\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested on suspicion of possessing child sexual abuse material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 58-year-old resident of Kiryat Yearim was arrested by investigators from the Jerusalem District Police on Monday on suspicion of possessing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-902987\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">child sexual abuse<\/a> material, Israel Police confirmed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Israeli media, the suspect is also the editor of a well-known <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-902550\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Haredi<\/a> newspaper, though this has not been confirmed by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The arrest was carried out after police said they received information that raised suspicions the man was in possession of prohibited material.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Investigators searched the suspect&#8217;s home under a court-issued warrant, where they arrested him and seized electronic devices, including a laptop computer and a mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the devices have been transferred for forensic examination and the extraction of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-902619\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">digital evidence<\/a> as part of the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The suspect was questioned on suspicion of possessing prohibited material.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-903130\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> did not provide additional details regarding the investigation or specify the quantity or nature of the material allegedly found. The investigation remains ongoing, and no indictment has been filed at this stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 58-year-old resident of Kiryat Yearim was arrested by investigators from the Jerusalem District Police on Monday on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32242,42,46,1158,43,113420,80299,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-563154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-child-sexual-abuse","tag-headlines","tag-israel","tag-israel-police","tag-news","tag-pedophilia","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563154","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=563154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}