The Out of Control Arab Israeli Crime Clans Driving the Murder Rate Sky-High

The Underworld Podcast

Documentary, True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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In the last 5 years, murders in what's known as Israel's Arab sector have increased 50%, setting new records every year as criminal clans and organized crime have turned cities and towns into fiefdoms run by powerful gangsters who operate with impunity, where guns do most of the talking and Israel’s police are stuck trying to take back territory they abandoned. The clans have moved from extortion and drug smuggling to completely taking over municipal governments where they use shell companies to give themselves hugely profitable government contracts. Local politicians who get in the way have been killed, their families threatened, and attacks have gotten so brazen that even rivals traveling under police escort have been murdered. This week we are joined again by Ben Hartman, a former crime reporter in Israel who last guested on our "Car Bomb Wars of the Israeli Mafia" episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.0	Late December 2020 in the mixed city of a load in Israel. Load's a tough town, been
1:17.1	beaten down a bit and it's known for its criminal element. But Omar Abu Salic,
1:21.6	15 years old and his parents, are probably pretty happy to see the police on this day.
1:26.0	They're on the wrong side of a violent clan feud that's been ongoing since 2010.
1:31.0	And the three police cars in a convoy are escorting them out of town so that they can avoid being the victims of a revenge killing.
1:37.0	You see, the night before, Salma and Risbarga had just been gunned down and his bodies just been found in a rough industrial area of town. And if an as
1:45.4	Barga gets killed everyone knows that the Abu Salic family is in the cross-airs.
1:49.5	The vendetta started in 2010 when a member of the Abu Salic family
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