Gal Hirsch, the former commander of the IDF’s Galilee Division, was questioned Sunday at the Israel Police’s Anti Fraud Unit along with other executives and employees of Defensive Shield Holdings Ltd, where he serves as chairman.
Gal Hirsch, who was set to be the next police commissioner and is suspected of bribery and money laundering in Georgia, arrived Sunday for further investigation.
A French-Lebanese businessman has publicly repeated claims that the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi gave €50m (£43m) to fund Nicolas Sarkozy’s successful 2007 campaign for the French presidency.
A Democrat in New York City by the name of Thomas Lopez-Pierre is running for the city council, and he’s running on the notion that people in the 7th district are suffering because of Jewish landlords.
One of the first leaders to express their condolences following the Paris attacks was Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani. In his message to French president François Hollande he condemned the attacks, while reminding Hollande that Iran itself has been a victim of “the scourge of terrorism.”
An umbrella group representing French Jews called Monday for “massive” voter participation to block the far-right National Front from capitalizing on its historic victory in the first round of France’s regional elections.
Arnaud Mimran, the main suspect in the great theft dubbed “the sting of the century,” testified on Thursday at a Paris court that he funded expenses of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in France, as well as directly funding election campaign expenses amounting to one million Euros. Netnahyahu vehemently denied the report.
A French man who refused to grant his wife a get (Jewish divorce document) for three years was caught recently, while in the company of a call girl in Israel.
“The French government and its secret services have experienced a miserable and crushing failure in drawing lessons from the terror attacks at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper offices and the kosher supermarket in January.
PARIS – Principals and teachers at schools across France dedicated a special hour Monday to discuss the terror attacks which hit Paris on Friday night with their students.
