The head of the IDF Northern Command, Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, suspended a colonel for one week beginning Thursday after classified documents and an encrypted cellphone were stolen from his vehicle, the army announced Sunday.
Swiss prosecutors will question Beny Steinmetz in Geneva amid an inquiry into allegations of bribery involving a $20 billion mining project in the Simandou hills in the west African country of Guinea.
Cmdr. Manny Yitzhaki, the head of the police Intelligence and Investigations Division and also a key figure in the criminal investigation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will retire in June, it was announced on Monday, without stating his replacement.
A police officer was killed and another injured early Wednesday morning, when an Arab terrorist attacked security forces securing the demolition of illegal structures in the Bedouin settlement of Umm Al-Hiran in southern Israel.
The publisher of Israel’s best-selling newspaper was called in for further police questioning on Monday amid an ongoing investigation into suspicions that he negotiated a behind-the-scenes deal with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to give the premier more favorable coverage in exchange for legislation that would damage a competing daily.
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.
New leaks from conversations between Benjamin Netanyahu and Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Arnon Mozes reveal the prime minister discussing which journalists are unacceptably hostile to him, and the newspaper mogul pondering how to marginalize them, in the latest dramatic developments in a corruption investigation that threatens Netanyahu’s hold on power.
Israeli singer Margalit Tsanani’s car exploded in the central Israeli city of Azur on Tuesday. After initial investigations into the blast, police have confirmed a criminal motive in the incident.
New information about the conversation at the center of the “2000 Affair”, the existence of which was revealed this morning (Sunday) by the newspaper Haaretz, was revealed a short time ago on Channel 2.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s lawyer on Friday dismissed the notion that there was anything criminal in the prime minister accepting gifts of expensive cigars for years from a Hollywood producer and businessman, and said the prime minister had nothing to fear, either, from a second series of corruption allegations.