{"id":623898,"date":"2026-09-22T13:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T13:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/623898\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T13:08:09","slug":"israel-police-seize-millions-of-shekels-worth-of-drugs-in-two-separate-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/623898\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Police seize millions of shekels&#8217; worth of drugs in two separate raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel Police seized millions of shekels&#8217; worth of drugs in two separate raids on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-908914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">drug trafficking<\/a> centers in the Jerusalem area and Area A of the West Bank, the police announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The first raid took place in Area A of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/west-bank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">West Bank<\/a>, after Palestinian police officers caught a 48-year-old Israeli in Bethlehem who possessed a large amount of pills suspected to be drugs, along with other hazardous substances.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent to his capture, Israel Police coordinated with the Palestinian police and raided the suspect&#8217;s home in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-905869\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bedouin town of Segev Shalom<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">During the raid, the suspect was arrested, and his vehicle was seized along with over 17 thousand Tramadol tablets and over 170 thousand Captagon tablets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The total value of the drugs seized was over 10 million shekels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The police also raided a drug distribution site in Moshav Ahisamakh in the Jerusalem area, they announced.<\/p>\n<p>During the raid, a vehicle was seized containing a large amount of drugs, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/cocaine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cocaine<\/a>, ecstasy, MDMA, and ketamine, with a total value of approximately 90 million shekels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The police also said that they had arrested three suspects, all in their 20s, for their alleged involvement in the drug distribution operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel Police seized millions of shekels&#8217; worth of drugs in two separate raids on drug trafficking centers in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13840,282132,737,74776,497,85,46,1158,43,102,77],"class_list":["post-623898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-arrest","tag-captagon","tag-crime","tag-drug-trafficking","tag-drugs","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-police","tag-news","tag-police","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623898","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=623898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}