An alleged crime boss was arrested overnight Saturday-Sunday, along with 32 other suspects, on suspicion of dealing weapons and drugs, in a coiuntrywide sweep that capped a year-long undercover operation.
An indictment was filed in the Jerusalem District Court against a 39-year-old resident of Bnei Brak for extortion, threats, vandalism, and intent to commit arson.
The four rabbis from various Israeli cities whom police arrested today, Wednesday, on suspicions of fraudulently obtaining police “fitness certificates,” that testify to a criminal-free past and would enable them to qualify for the post of “City Rabbi,” have been sent to house arrest with limiting conditions.
The Beersheva district court ruled Thursday that Asher Dahan, who murdered Rabbi Elazar Abuhatzeira in 2011, will not be deemed to have been insane at the time of his act.
Police are investigating a case of massive kashrut fraud in northern Israel.
A federal judge in Manhattan on Monday refused to dismiss fraud charges against a former Platinum Partners hedge fund executive and a former union leader for New York City prison guards, who claimed their indictment was based on illegal wiretaps.
A man was seriously injured in a car bombing outside a supermarket in the Haifa suburb of Nesher in what police said was likely an attempted gangland killing.
An undercover agent who was gunned down earlier this year in an apparent gangland murder was revealed Monday to have successfully infiltrated crime syndicates, foiled plans for a string of attacks and helped gather information that led to the arrest of dozens of suspected underworld criminals.
A young Israeli woman came forward in a television interview on Friday as the latest victim of Israeli fraudster Shimon Hayut, known as the “The Tinder Swindler,” despite a popular Netflix true-crime documentary this year by the same name that documented his alleged systematic defrauding of romantic partners. Iren Tranov, 25, from the southern city…
DetailsA senior figure in organized crime was shot dead Sunday in the northern city of Tirat Carmel, in an apparent underworld hit. Rafi Ben Shalom, 37, was the nephew of notorious mob boss Michael Mor, and is believed by police to have been a key field operative for him. Mor is currently in jail for…
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