Terrorism in Israel

The risk of terrorist attacks in Israel over the past years can be classified as almost insignificant. Compared to other countries here are only quite a few incedents. Over the past 5 years a total number of 393 terrorist incidents has been recorded, in which 53 people have been killed and 403 injured.

In 2 incedents a total of 2 people have been kidnapped or taken as hostage.

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Most frequent attack targets in Israel

(2013 to 2017)

Target	Attacks	Killed	Injured	Hostages
Private citizens	218	27	300	2
Business	23	3	25	0
Religious institutions	15	9	13	0
Military	13	12	34	0
Transportation	13	7	57	0
Police	8	9	28	0
Educational institution	8	0	2	0
Government	6	1	1	0
Utilities	5	0	0	0
Airports & Aircraft	1	0	0	0

Most affected regions

(2013 to 2017)

Region	Attacks	Killed	Injured	Hostages
Southern	233	9	92	0
Central	40	6	41	1
Jerusalem	38	21	90	1
Tel Aviv	31	11	60	0
Northern	30	1	12	0
Haifa	11	0	105	0
Golan Heights	7	5	3	0

Terrorist organisations in Israel

Organisation	Attacks	Killed	Injured
Al-Jihad	8	0	3
Popular Resistance Committees	5	1	3
Mujahedeen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem	4	0	0
Abdullah Azzam Brigades	4	0	0
Liwa Ahrar al-Sunna	3	0	0
Islamic State	3	0	0
Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigade	3	0	0
Ahfad al-Sahaba-Aknaf Bayt al-Maqdis	2	0	0
Ma'sadat al-Mujahideen	2	0	100
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade	1	0	0
Hezbollah	1	0	0

All information sourced from the "National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism" (START) and its Global Terrorism Database. An act of terrorism is concidered every incident which is aimed at attaining a political, economic, religious, or social goal, but not for pure profit motives. In addition these incidents must not be legitimized by warfare activities, listet in the Geneva Conventions of 1949.