Police and emergency personnel are investigating whether a Jerusalem apartment fire, killing a mother and her four young daughters on Derech Hebron Road in Talpiot early Sunday evening, was a murder-suicide.
Prosecutors in the capital indicted Ziad Awadallah on Monday, charging the eastern Jerusalem taxi driver with repeatedly sexually assaulting a 13-year old girl in his cab.
Jerusalem police arrested a 60-year-old local rabbi on Wednesday on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old student several years ago at the ulpana (religious girls’ high school) in which he taught.
At the end of last week, an Arab taxi driver was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old haredi girl in Jerusalem.
A man accused of performing indecent acts on a small boy was indicted Monday morning in a Jerusalem district court.
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.
16-year-old boy accused of fatally striking his friend with a metal bar during a brawl in Jerusalem has been arrested, police said on Sunday.
The Shas party said Monday it would propose a bill that would make it illegal to hold pluralistic prayer services at the Western Wall plaza.
The Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office Civil Division sued a range of haredi-linked entities known as “Kehillat Hamatmidim” and their owners for NIS 52,236,952 million for allegedly defrauding the state into paying them subsidies, including forging 1500 false ID cards.
Rabbi Yitzhak and Sima Peretz have been an integral part of the fabric of the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital for the past 27 years. Now their family has grown.