When one is suspected of having committed a crime, law enforcement takes them into custody by arresting them.
The exact process varies between countries, but it typically sees police officers place a suspect in handcuffs and taking them either to be detained or interrogated.
An arrest is also often marked on a permanent legal record, though there are legal processes through which this can be expunged.
The suspects, a couple in their 40s from Tel Aviv, were arrested and taken for questioning at the Jaffa Police Station.
Jonathan Urich is expected to be released to house arrest tomorrow, and the investigation of the two will continue. Communications adviser Israel Einhorn is also wanted for questioning.
According to the prosecution, the suspects threatened several figures, including contractors, who either competed for or won infrastructure tenders.
Videos were published showing groups of Jewish citizens attempting to break into a police station and block roads leading to it on the island in protest against the arrest.
Stewart, along with two other members, Jocelyn Frazee and Sean Anderson, faced charges of unlawful assembly.
Israel Police arrest a protester who is suspected of harassing a border policewoman during a protest and riot in Jerusalem earlier in the week.
EDITOR'S NOTES: “The world needs to understand,” Dodik said, “there is no peaceful coexistence where one side is always expected to apologize. We tried that. It failed.”
Defying an internal arrest warrant, he crossed into neighboring Serbia earlier this week then traveled to Israel for an antisemitism conference in Jerusalem on Thursday.
The journalist arrested was reportedly Christian Meier, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) correspondent for Israel and Palestine.
Karroubi's political ally, former Prime Minister Mirhossein Mousavi, would also be released from house arrest in the coming months.
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