Five Arab Israelis Killed in Hours as Car Bombings, Shootings Rock Central Israel

Five Arab Israelis were killed within hours on Sunday in a surge of underworld violence across central Israel. A car bomb detonated in Jaffa at about 7:30 a.m., killing Iyad Raab, 38, and moderately wounding his 6-year-old son, who was rushed to Wolfson Medical Center. A second car bombing in Holon killed a man of about 30, while overnight shootings in Taibe claimed 19-year-old Bakr Nuseirat and seriously wounded another man, and gunmen in Kafr Qasim killed Adnan Ghanem and Ghaleb Abu-Ras. Israel Police, which has expanded operations against Arab-sector crime networks, is investigating whether the Jaffa attack was revenge for last week's killing of a local teenager.