Jerusalem – The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) confirmed on Thursday that the explosion which left 20 people injured on a bus in southern Jerusalem on Monday was the result of a suicide bombing by the Islamist group Hamas.
A former chauffeur of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was sentenced to 27 years in prison on Sunday for raping six underage girls, some of them related to him.
Jerusalem – The Yemenite Children Affair, the claim that Yemenite children were systematically abducted and taken for adoption by European Jewish (Ashkenazi) families without the biological family’s consent in the state’s early days, seemed to have gained momentum on Tuesday evening in Jerusalem.
The breakthrough came in April 1995. New intelligence obtained by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) pointed to the possibility that Yahya Ayyash, Hamas’s top bomb-maker, had somehow made his way from the northern West Bank to the Gaza Strip.
In what is yet another strike against the religious establishment in Israel, the High Court of Justice ruled on Thursday afternoon that private Orthodox conversions conducted in Israel should be recognized by the state for eligibility for the Right of Return.
Jerusalem – The High Court of Justice struck a significant blow to the Chief Rabbinate’s monopoly on kashrut licensing Tuesday, ruling that restaurants and other food businesses can describe the kashrut standards they maintain as long as they make clear that they do not have a kashrut license.
A haredi youth was beaten by an Egged bus driver during a trip from Jerusalem to Tiberias last Thursday night.
Authorities filed an indictment Thursday against a Beit Shemesh man suspected of sexually assaulting a young boy next door to a synagogue, and then paying him a small sum to ensure he did not divulge what had happened.
Jerusalem police on Sunday arrested a Haredi man, who is about 40 years old, after he spat on a 15-year-old girl because she was supposedly not dressed modestly enough.
Jerusalem – After a three-year long investigation, Guy Cohen, former CEO of the ultra-Orthodox news site Behadrey Haredim, and his deputy Uri Zur, have been indicted, charged with blackmailing high profile rabbis and businessmen.
