Fighters from the Yamam, Israel Police’s national counterterrorism unit, together with officers from the Ar’ara station in the Southern District, arrested three residents of the Negev Bedouin town of Arara on Tuesday morning. That ended a manhunt that had gone on for nearly a full year.
The three are suspected of direct involvement in the murder of Samih Talkat Abu Arar, who was killed in Arara in October 2025 during a bloody feud between families in the town.
Four other people involved in the killing were arrested earlier and have been indicted on serious charges of murder and accessory to murder. Investigators say the three main remaining suspects fled in secret right after the murder to Yehuda and Shomron, where they hid out to stay out of reach of the security forces.
After a long covert intelligence operation run by investigators from the Ar’ara station and the Shomron anti-crime unit of the Yehuda and Shomron District, police tracked down the suspects’ hiding places. On Tuesday morning, Yamam fighters launched targeted raids at several locations.
One suspect was caught and subdued by the fighters at a bus terminal near the community of Rechelim. In a second raid, Yamam forces...