Since the start of 2026, police have seized over 610 deadly weapons and arrested countless suspects in the fight against violent crime.
Two people were arrested in Shfaram on suspicion of stealing a shoulder-fired MATADOR missile stolen from the IDF during operations in northern Israel over the weekend, Israel Police announced on Sunday morning.
Police said one of the suspects is an illegal resident.
Police transferred both suspects to the Galilee Region police station for questioning and expect to bring them before the court to extend their detention.
The missile was seized during a targeted operational activity conducted by the Northern District police, the IDF's anti-terrorist unit, and officers of the military's northern command.
Later on Sunday, police announced it had located ten flash grenades during a traffic accident between a car and a scooter with no license plates in the Western Galilee. The scooter was towed by police.
An Israel Police bomb squad was called to the scene in order to safely remove the grenades and transport them for "further evidence collection."
Since the start of 2026, police have seized over 610 illegal weapons and arrested countless suspects in the fight against violent crime.
In early August, a reservist and a civilian were indicted over the theft and alleged trafficking of an M16 rifle taken from an IDF base in northern Israel.
The investigation also uncovered a suspected network that allegedly sold cocaine and other drugs, including to soldiers inside military bases in northern Israel. An IDF major implicated in the drug investigation is expected to be indicted separately at a later date, according to a joint military and Israel Police statement at the time.
The investigation began on June 20, after Military Police received a report that an M16 rifle had been stolen from a base in northern Israel.
Investigators arrested a 30-year-old reservist noncommissioned officer from Tiberias later that evening on suspicion that he had stolen the rifle from a soldier serving in his unit.
After investigators came to suspect that the weapon had been transferred to criminal elements, the Northern District Police's central investigative unit opened a joint investigation with the northern unit of the Military Police.