The State of Israel, also known as the Jewish State, is one of the few democracies in the Middle East and the world's only Jewish-majority nation.
In 2002, Robert Goren and Alexandra Eames investigated a terrorist bomb maker's hideout. There, Goren found rat poison. He mentioned suicide bombers in Israel used rat poison in their bombs to make their victims bleed to death. (CI: "The Pilgrim")
In 2005, an Israeli jeweler based in New York, commonly known as Diamond Dov, was questioned in an investigation by Elliot Stabler and Odafin Tutuola, as he was making rings worth tens of thousands of dollars for celebrities by request. One of his rings was found to be related to a murder victim. (SVU: "Class")
Rebekkah Meisner, the daughter of Leah Glaser, lived in Israel. (L&O: Evil Breeds). In 2006, the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad had a young American woman, Sarah Myers, infiltrate a Palestinian rights group with suspected terrorist ties. She was killed in action, and though the agency scrambled to cover up the incident, it was captured on camcorder. This footage eventually fell into the hands of reporter Rebecca Slater, leading to an attempt on her life that killed her colleague Josh Lemle. (CI: "30")
In 2007, while investigating a kidnapping and attempted murder of an online gamer, Stabler and Olivia Benson learn that the game, Another Youniverse, has players from various places around the world, including Tel Aviv. (SVU: "Avatar")
In 2008, while the SVU were investigating the rape of 10-year-old David Zelensky, who went missing after his hospitalization, his mother suspects that his turned-Chassidic Jewish father Avi Zelensky used their dual Israeli citizenship and took him to Israel. Stabler replies that Israel is signed on an international extradition agreement that will send them back to New York if that was the case. In reality, David asked his father's community leader Rabbi Iscowitz to take him to the Chassidish autonomic town of Kehilat Moshe near Montreal, Canada, to flee the sexual abuse. (SVU: "Unorthodox")
In 2022, a joint effort between the Organized Crime Control Bureau and Italian policewoman Tia Leonetti managed to thwart Eastern European-based Israeli criminal Michael Abramov and his human trafficking ring in New York City. (OC: "Whipping Post")