Tuesday, July 8, 2025, 18:31 The Israel Police announced that they will investigate Yisrael Frey, a journalist, for a tweet that he posted inciting against IDF soldiers. In light of the investigation, Honenu called on the State Attorney’s office to put Frey on trial for similar incidents for which he was investigated, but not indicted, in 2022. Among other incidents, Frey posted a tweet on Twitter in which he suggested giving a medal to a terrorist who was apprehended on his way to carrying out an attack. Frey was detained and interrogated at the Lev Tel Aviv Police Station, after the police received three complaints accusing him of incitement to terror.
Honenu Attorney Menashe Yado, who led the complaints in 2022, is calling on the State Attorney’s office to put Frey on trial. He states that the failure to indict Frey then, led to the increased severity of his incitement today: “There were no grounds for the State Attorney’s office to abandon our complaint against Frey in 2022. Now, we see that neglecting the matter led to the sharp escalation of his inciting remarks. We hope that they will be addressed with all due gravity.”
Frey’s activism and comments were shared on Arab social media. The material included a video clip showing Frey’s photograph and statements in Arabic inciting to terror.
The video clip featuring Frey and Arabic statements inciting to terror;
Video credit: Arabic social media
The terrorist who, according to Frey, deserved a medal, left Shechem carrying an improvised Carlo submachine gun and two improvised explosive devices full of nails. He was apprehended in Yafo by a Yasam (special police) team. The terrorist was detained for interrogation, during which he admitted that his intention had been to carry out a mass attack in Tel Aviv. He confessed that he had looked for soldiers to injure, but he did not find any. He then wandered around Yafo, which raised the suspicions of the Yasam team who detained him.
Frey reacted to the detention with a tweet on his Twitter account (translation by Honenu): “Look at what a hero he is. He came all the way from Shechem to Tel Aviv, and despite the presence of all the Israelis around him taking whatever their part is in the oppression, shattering, and killing of his people, he nevertheless searched for legitimate targets [soldiers] and refrained from injuring innocents [civilians]. In a civilized world, he would have received a medal.”
In reaction to the tweet, Yado wrote a letter to the Attorney General demanding that a criminal investigation be opened against Frey: “Calling soldiers ‘legitimate targets’ acknowledges terror and prepares the ground for acts of terror. Soldiers are entitled to protection from terror like every other citizen. Calling them ‘legitimate targets’ plants a seed of uncertainty about that protection. It may also cause terrorists to consider soldiers to be a weak point in the Israeli opposition to terror. Such talk endangers soldiers as individuals and also the strength of Israeli society and the State of Israel.”