Substitute teacher Shaul Shamai was indicted in the Tel Aviv District Court on Thursday for indecently assaulting several seven-year-old girls and one 13-year-old girl. He was also charged with failing to report his previous conviction for sexual offenses to the school where he was employed.
A former Kfar Saba city councilman was indicted on charges of sexual assault Wednesday morning, roughly two weeks after he was arrested following complaints by at least four individuals who claim he committed sexual acts on them in his car outside of the city of Elad in central Israel, Behadrei Haredim reported.
Two Palestinians are currently in custody for allegedly raping and urinating on a mentally-disabled woman in south Tel Aviv, in what police say was a racially-motivated crime.
Israel Police are investigating serious allegations of a huge diamond theft at the Ramat Gan Diamond Exchange, which could cause the bankruptcy of up to a dozen diamond companies.
Police arrested 40-year-old Moshe Iram, from Jerusalem, on suspicion of incitement to violence against the head of the IDF’s Manpower Directorate, Maj. Gen. Moti Almoz, after the suspect distributed inciting flyers near Almoz’s home.
An 18-and-a-half year old dual US-Israeli citizen from Ashkelon has been arrested on suspicion of standing behind most of a series of bomb and other threats to Jewish communities ranging from the US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand over the past six months.
Israel Police are investigating a man suspected of possible involvement in a series of murders in Israel in recent years, it was cleared for publication on Tuesday.
A veteran diamond broker is suspected of stashing tens of millions of dollars in foreign bank accounts, after allegedly defrauding some of the most senior diamond industry figures in the country out of approximately $60 million, police said in court on Sunday.
The senior crime figure arrested on Tuesday in connection with a series of underworld assassinations is Motti Hassin.
In a bombshell speech, a senior Israel Police officer told a Knesset panel on Wednesday that Israeli crime kingpins are behind the binary options industry and that organized crime in the country has been massively enriched and strengthened as a result of law enforcement’s failure for many years to grasp the vastness of the problem.
