Brig. Gen. Ofek Buchris offered Plea Deal In Rape Trial
The military prosecution said Tuesday it was working on a plea bargain for Brigadier General Ofek Buchris, who was charged with 17 counts of sexual misconduct.
The military prosecution said Tuesday it was working on a plea bargain for Brigadier General Ofek Buchris, who was charged with 17 counts of sexual misconduct.
A Queens lawyer will serve two years in prison for paying two 16-year-old girls for oral sex and groping, officials said.
The Jerusalem Magistrate Court on Tuesday convicted the leader of the Shuvu Banim (Return boys) movement, Rabbi Eliezer Berland, 79, of two counts of indecent assault and one count of assault and sentenced him to 18 months in prison.
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.
Rabbi Eliezer Berland, who fled Israel after allegations of sexual misconduct against female followers came to light in 2012, will serve 18 months in prison for sexual abuse.
The High Court rejected once again Wednesday a request by lawyers representing Shuvu Banim head Rabbi Eliezer Berland to release him to house arrest.
Sexual harassment and assault in the workplace is a matter for the law and law enforcement.
Haaretz journalist Ari Shavit was accused by the American Jewish Journal writer Danielle Berrin in a column that she published last week of having sexually assaulted her when she came to interview him at his hotel.
Rabbi Sholom D. Levitansky has agreed to one year of counseling and residential treatment at Beit T’Shuvah, an addiction treatment center near Culver City, after pleading no contest to two counts of sexual penetration by a foreign object of a minor.