Hodaya Ran

Hodaya Ran is a crime reporter for Walla.


 National Unity Party Chairman Benny Gantz at the Makor Rishon Settlement Conference in Ofra, May 6, 2025.

Gantz to Netanyahu: ‘You have opposition support, bring the hostages home now’

A Magen David Adom ambulance; illustrative.

Senior MDA paramedic under investigation for sexually abusing teenage girls

 Rom Braslavski, who was taken hostage on October 7 at the Nova Music Festival (illustration).

'All day, I'm scratching and it hurts': PIJ publishes video of hostage Rom Braslavski


Police raid law office without warrant, threaten staff, seize CCTV footage

The office staff told Walla that the police did not present a search warrant from a court, and thus, the staff claim, police acted unlawfully.

 Police raiding a law office in Tira without a warrant to seize CCTV footage that could contain evidence relating to a murder, April 13, 2025.

What happens after sexual assault? A guide to immediate care in Israel

Acute care units for survivors of sexual assault currently operate in 11 hospitals across Israel, providing comprehensive medical, emotional, and forensic care.

 The Lotus Center - acute care room at Kaplan medical center

Extortionists posed as women online, trapped victims with intimate photos

After posing as women on Telegram, two men from Rishon LeZion and Holon extorted thousands of shekels from unsuspecting victims.

 Catching culprits who duped women out of thousands of shekels via Telegram.

Man of fear: Indictment filed against man who claimed supernatural powers to commit abuse

Investigators claim that the assailant would stare down his opponents in the courtroom in a "case unlike any other."

 Avraham Alok, who claimed to have supernatural abilities to take advantage of women and others.

Israel Police to investigate terrorist display planted in pickup truck

Israel Police from the Kfar Saba station detained three suspects - residents of Kfar Saba, Tel Aviv, and a settlement in the West Bank - on suspicion of improper conduct in a public space.

A protest display set up in Kfar Saba featured figures of three terrorists in the trunk of a white pickup truck, resembling the October 7 Hamas infiltration into southern Israeli communities.

Third document passed by Ari Rosenfeld to Feldstein has been revealed

The document discusses, according to the indictment, a Hamas operation that planned to exert psychological pressure against the State of Israel. 

 Eliezer Feldstein, the central suspect in the PMO security leak affair.

Ari Rosenfeld named as NCO involved in PMO documents leak case

Regarding the request to release additional details from the indictment and hearing protocols, Judge Ala’a Masarwa agreed to review the restrictions on the gag order.

 Ari Rosenfeld, the NCO named in the PMO document leak affair.

Police beat, arrest PTSD victim for boarding bus with certified service dog

"This entire ordeal left me humiliated and powerless," Koby Levy said. "I hope changes are made so no one else has to go through what I endured."

Israel Police at the scene of an explosion in southern Tel Aviv, August 18, 2024.

MDA, city residents share experience of Hezbollah rocket attack in Ramat Gan

"There was a huge boom, I felt the blast wave, and the house shook,” shared a city resident.

 Security and rescue personel work at the scene where a bus and buildings were hit following a rocket attack from Lebanon towards Israel in Ramat Gan in central Israel November 18, 2024.

Israelis unable to return home are still at Amsterdam's airport

Buskila and Mazuz emphasized that during their time at the airport, they felt they were isolated solely because they were Israelis.

 Police officers work at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, following the violence targeting fans of an Israeli soccer team, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 8, 2024.