Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was questioned by the Israel Police anti-corruption unit for 12 hours Thursday over alleged financial irregularities at the Prime Minister’s Residence.
Netanyahu’s former chief of staff, Gil Sheffer, is the prime minister’s confidant under investigation over the past month and a half on suspicion that he sexually assaulted a woman.
Police said Monday they arrested a Haredi man after he arrived at Ben-Gurion airport carrying more than six and a half kilograms (14 pounds) of a substance suspected to be cocaine.
According to the Israel Police on Monday, officers from the Lahav 443 special investigations unit arrested 18 suspects on suspicion of operating a network of fraud operations against international companies.
Security forces arrested this morning a youth from Rahat in southern Israel for incitement, after he called on his Facebook page to “take care of the Zionists.”
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit conducted meetings Wednesday with the State Prosecutor and other Justice Ministry officials regarding the issue of the submarine purchases by the IDF after new information was received from the police and there were further developments.
The Israel Police is expected to call in for questioning under caution a number of Tel Aviv nightclub owners, after a young woman filed a rape complaint against real-estate mogul Alon Kastiel.
New details have emerged from the investigation into Brig. Gen. (res.) Avriel Bar-Yosef, who was slated to become the new head of Israel’s National Security Council (NSC).
Police detained a former senior official on the National Security Council for questioning Tuesday morning on suspicion of taking bribes, money laundering, fraud and breach of trust.
Anonymous accusations of sexual harassement are just as bad as sexual harassment itself, said Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich during a 2015 meeting in which he decided to reinstate a senior officer accused of sexual harassment, according to a Ynet report.