Police arrested 20 Israelis on suspicions of participating in a large international fraud and blackmail network that scammed tens of millions of dollars and euros from companies around the world.
The dean of haredi elementary school Tiferet Yaakov was arrested at Ben Gurion Airport on Tuesday upon his return from a fundraising trip abroad, reported Kikar News.
An operator of a beeper store in downtown Lakewood that was a focus of an investigation this year pleaded guilty Thursday to running a business that illegally sent millions of dollars across the country.
Former Comverse CEO Kobi Alexander, who was convicted in New York of securities offences, was sentenced today.
In a rare move, a Jerusalem judge on Thursday rejected a plea deal for former chief rabbi Yona Metzger, handing down a harsher sentence of four and a half years in prison on a slew of bribery and corruption charges.
Israel Police prevented the explosion of an explosive device under the car of soccer player Kobi Musa in Ramat Hasharon and arrested two suspects, who they also believe as belonging to a group of criminals who have planted bombs intended for other Israeli celebrities.
BOSTON — An Israeli national has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of drug trafficking and international money laundering, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Thursday.
Police in Bulgaria said they arrested two Israeli brothers on Thursday, who allegedly killed a third Israeli man, an acquaintance, apparently beating him and leaving him to die in a forest.
The mayor of Ashkelon, Itamar Shimoni, was indicted Tuesday for accepting bribes, breach of trust and tax-related offenses.
Authorities in Jerusalem arrested two men Monday morning in an apparent crackdown on a vigilante “modesty squad” which has operated for years in the capital’s haredi neighborhoods.