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Police and Crime / Palestinian Authority / Anti-Israel NGOs / United Nations (UN)

UN Watch Accuses Albanese of Taking Payments from Activist Groups

By Mike Wagenheim

Francesa Albanese’s “support for terrorism and promotion of antisemitism” “is now compounded by serious financial improprieties,” said the NGO in a complaint filed to the U.N. secretary general.

Politics / Police and Crime / The Knesset

Meretz Party’s Minister Tamar Zandberg and Partner Uri Zaki Accused of Corruption

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Uri Zaki raised 734,000 shekels in 2017-2022 for his nonprofit from the New Israel Fund, a U.S.-based NGO that supports progressive groups in Israel.

Israel / Haredim & Hassidim / Police and Crime / The Courts

Police Arrest 4, Including Litzman's Aide, in Sprawling Corruption Case

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

After a covert and strenuous investigation, the public phase began Sunday with the arrest a number of suspects on suspicion of committing bribery, fraud and breach of trust offenses.

Israel / United Nations (UN)

Israeli Ambassador to UN Calls for UNRWA’s Shutdown, as UNRWA Chief Steps Down

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Ambassador Danon called for the shuttering of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) after the body publicized the preliminary findings of its probe into broad corruption among its leadership.

Israel / United Nations (UN)

UN’s Findings on UNRWA Corruption Shows We Were Right, Israel Says

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Several countries suspended their aid to UNRWA following the publication of allegations against the corrupt organization.

Police and Crime / Government

Israeli Police Arrest 10 in Corruption Case, Including a Mayor and Local Government Officials

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

A mayor, government office directors and former public officials were arrested as part of a large corruption investigation.

Featured / Headline / IDF & Security / Police and Crime / Government / Germany

Six to be Indicted Over Case 3000 'Submarine Affair'

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Netanyahu has not been directly implicated, though he was questioned by the police in the matter.

Politics / Government / Local

Netanyahu Blasts Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz for Undermining Him

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

“There are 40 people who voted in favor of a bill to close the newspaper Yisrael Hayom and they are accusing me of bribery and breach of trust? Is anyone investigating them?"

Featured / Interviews and Profiles

Ari Harow - The Man Behind the Netanyahu Investigations Headlines

By Jewish Press Staff

A profile of the man Police hope will unwillingly take down Prime Minister Netanyahu.

IDF & Security / News Briefs / Anti-Israel NGOs / Religious & Secular in Israel / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Breaking the Silence Expose 'Corruption': Hebron Jews Ply Soldiers with Shabbat Meals, Pizza

By JNi.Media

Having concluded phase one of their attack, presenting IDF soldiers as war criminals to an eager world, BtS now zeroes in on the men and women who put their lives on the line every day to settle the entire Biblical Land of Israel.

Shiloh Musings

Shiloh Musings: Stop Supporting So-Called "Palestinians," sic, Parasitic Corruption!

By Batya Medad

The well-stocked stores would seem to contradict the general perception of suffering and impoverished Palestinians.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Politics / Government / News Briefs / Anti-Israel NGOs / Israeli Arabs

Peace Now Co-Founder: Netanyahu Behind Arsons to Divert Attention from his Corruption

By JNi.Media

'Netanyahu's incitement intifada is raging across the country,' Goldblum posted. 'It's difficult not to see the connection between Netanyahu's incitements following the arsons and the submarines scandal.'

Op-Eds

Hillary Clinton’s E-Mail Scandal is About Her Corruption, NOT the FBI Director’s Anti-Woman Bias

By Ben Shapiro

Dems miss the point completely: "The target is not Hillary Clinton. It’s us. The only reason the whole email flap has legs is because the candidate is female. Can you imagine this happening to a man?”

Police and Crime / News Briefs / The Knesset / Israeli Arabs

Attorney General Approves Interrogation of Arab MKs Zoabi, Zahalka on Corruption Charges

By JNi.Media

Police suspect that millions of dollars which had been reported as donations from abroad were, in fact, laundered funds of Israeli Arab citizens.

Politics / Police and Crime / Government / The Courts / News Briefs

16 Senior Yisrael Beiteinu Officials to Be Indicted on Corruption Charges

By JNi.Media

This represents the culmination of the two-year long "Case 242" that was conducted by the Investigations and Intelligence Division Lahav 433 of the National Fraud Unit, which involved the investigation of 480 individuals.

Police and Crime / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset

MK Amsalem to Propose that Prime Ministers Be Immune from Prosecution for Minor Offenses

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The law would allow the Prime Minister to concentrate on his job instead of the constant minor investigations the police are always opening and closing, on the other hand...

Politics / Police and Crime / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Media

Netanyahu Tells Knesset Inquiry of his Suspected Corruption 'a Lot of Hot Air'

By JNi.Media

"I ask all those who are asking questions and those who may have hope in their hearts: don't hurry to have suits made. Stop the tailors."

Politics / Police and Crime / Government / The Courts / News Briefs

PM Olmert, Two More Holy Land Hotel Defendants to Start Prison Terms

By JNi.Media

On Monday a new chapter will be written in Israel's annals of politics and crime.

Israel / Politics / News Briefs / Europe

Swedish FM Margot Wallström in Rental Corruption Scandal

By JNi.Media

She opted to push the union leadership under the bus, very much in Arab terrorist fashion.

News Briefs / Palestinian Authority

Report: Abbas Controlling Multi Billion Dollar Fund that Hasn’t Had a CEO in 15 Years

By JNi.Media

The Palestinian National Fund has existed since the 1960s. It manages billions of dollars which are funneled to PA officials and funds anti-Israel activities.

Terrorism / Israel / Global / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Sports

Mass Arrests of FIFA Officials Omit PA Terrorist Rajoub

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Shurat HaDin calls for expulsion of PA soccer chief Rajoub for inciting terror - hours before Swiss arrests of FIFA officials for various charges of corruption.

US / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority

Abbas' Son Loses $10 Million Libel Suit in US Court

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The PA and leftists lost twice in US courts, which threw out suits for libel and a claim against settlers' "terrorist attacks."

Police and Crime / News Briefs / Jerusalem

Jerusalem District Police Commander Hands In Surprise Resignation

By Jewish Press Staff

Jerusalem District Police commander Assistant Chief Yossi Pariente has announced that he will step down at the end of his term later this year.

Video of the Day

Palestinian PM Hints: Hamas Stole Food and Medical Aid

By Video of the Day

The Palestinian Authority Prime Minister admits that Hamas has stolen food and medicine meant for civilians, and the PA has no say over what goes on in Gaza, despite the so-called "Palestinian Unity Government".

Israel / Police and Crime / News Briefs

Update: President Ruby Rivlin No Longer Under Investigation

By Jewish Press News Desk

Rivlin is NOT being investigated in connection to convicted businessman David Appel.

Israel / Politics / Police and Crime / News Briefs

Yet Another Presidential Race Dropout Following Allegations of Wrongdoing

By Jewish Press News Desk

Last minute corruption allegations against "Fuad" Ben-Eliezer have forced him to drop out of the race for president of Israel.

NY / News Briefs / Obituaries

Former Head of 92nd Street Y Commits Suicide

By Jewish Press News Desk

The former director of the 92nd Street Y is dead after hanging himself last Friday at his home in Seagate.

Government

Olmert Joins ‘Innocent’ Leaders like Katzav and Nixon

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

There is no joy in having a former prime minister who is a crook, but at least the judicial system finally has nailed him.

Turkey

Erdogan Blames Foreigners for Engineering Corruption Probe

By Jewish Press News Desk

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, sounding more and more like Syrian President Bassar al-Assad, has blamed foreigners for supposedly engineering the corruption probe that has rocked his government. He appealed directly to the people with a populist cry to support him against some foreign enemy attacking "the bread on your table, the money in […]

US / Hamas / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

While the US Is Aiding Abbas, the EU Says He's Crooked

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Abbas is a master schnoorer. The US forked over another $!48 million to Ramallah, which is peanuts to the $2.7 billion the EU says it wasted. Abbas has no money to pay workers – again – and blames Israel.

News Briefs / Egypt

Mubarak to be Freed from Jail This Week, Says His Lawyer

By Jewish Press News Desk

Hosni Mubarak, overthrown two years ago in the Arab Spring rebellion and jailed on charges of murder and corruption, will be freed from jail this week after being cleared of a charge of corruption, his lawyer Fareed el Deeb announced Monday, but murder charges still await him. He added that one other charge of corruption […]

Politics / Government / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Conflict of Interest Brewing for Lapid and Beer Company

By Jewish Press News Desk

Yesh Atid and party chairman Yair Lapid are facing their first charges of unethical conduct following the revelation that one of Lipid’s advisers is a part-owner of a beer company that is due tor receive aid from the Finance Ministry that Lapid heads. Hillel Kobrinsky is an adviser to Lapid and holds a 4 percent […]

Israel / Jewish / News Briefs

Rabbi Stav: Get ‘Corrupt Politicians’ Out of the Rabbinate

By Ben Sales

The contest for Chief Rabbi gets uglier. Rabbi Metzger is suspected of bribery. No charges have been filed, but candidate Rabbi Stav said there is no room for “corrupt politicians” in the rabbinate.

Jewish / News Briefs

Montreal’s First Jewish Mayor Arrested in Corruption Crackdown

By JTA

Montreal’s first Jewish mayor and a Jewish former alderman were arrested as part of a crackdown on corruption. Michael Applebaum, who was appointed mayor last November, was taken into custody Monday morning by agents of the anti-corruption unit, l’unite permanente anticorruption (UPAC). Also arrested was Saulie Zajdel, an Orthodox Jewish former city council member who […]

Rubin Reports

The West's New Syrian War

By Barry Rubin

Do you want to arm the Syrian rebels so they can establish another Sharia state?

Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset

Knesset Member Peretz Suspected of Vote-Buying

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Two Knesset Members from the last Knesset’s Labor party were involved in vote-buying in the party’s 2012 primaries, according to Yediot Acharonot. Labor leader Shelly Yechimovich named one of them as Amir Peretz, who ditched Labor to run with Tzipi Livni’s party in the January general elections. She told Army Radio Tuesday that she knows […]

Op-Eds / Khaled Abu Toameh

What the West is Funding: Palestinian Suppression of Free Speech

By Khaled Abu Toameh

The Palestinian Authority leadership in the West Bank [Judea and Samaria -ed.] has come up with a new method to silence its Palestinian critics. From now on, any Palestinian writer or journalist who dares to criticize Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his policies or demand an end to corruption will be accused of "belittling the dignity of the state." Since the beginning of this year, at least 10 Palestinian journalists, bloggers and political opponents have been detained by various Palestinian Authority security services for writing about corruption and criticizing the Palestinian leadership.

Middle East / Levant / News Briefs

Gaddafi's Son's Israeli Lover Pleads For His Life

By JTA

Israeli actress Orly Weinerman reportedly has urged Tony Blair to help save the life of her “discreet” lover, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi. On Monday, Weinerman posted on her Facebook page in Hebrew, “for a long time I have had trouble falling asleep at night, revealing my anxiety among good friends and between the living room walls. But now, with injustice displayed proudly on the world stage, I call for you to lend me a hand and prevent another victim of hatred, prejudice and moral corruption. Orly.”

Fresno Zionism

Surrender Corrupts the Soul of Israel

By Vic Rosenthal

Fein is wrong. The corruption of the Jewish soul did not begin in 1967. It began with the adoption of the idea that surrender is pro-Israel.

Israel

Olmert Acquitted Of Major Charges

By Steve K. Walz

JERUSALEM – A panel of three Jerusalem regional court judges acquitted former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday of all corruption charges in the Rishon Tours and Moshe Talansky matters. The judges, though, found him guilty of breach of trust in the Investment Center affair, which took place during Olmert’s tenure as minister of industry, trade and labor nearly a decade ago.

Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs

PA Arrests 150

By Malkah Fleisher

Israel is praising the Palestinian Authority for cracking down on crime and corruption in Arab territories in Judea and Samaria, following the arrest of 150 suspects.

Middle East / Levant / Politics / News Briefs

Losing Candidate Shafiq Fleeing Egypt Ahead of Corruption Charges

By Jewish Press Staff

Ahmed Mohamed Shafik Zaki, who came second in Egypt's presidential runoff election last week, is reported to have boarded a flight to Abu Dhabi fleeing several corruption complaints.

Op-Eds

The Silence Abbas and the PA Want You to Hear

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The Middle East is becoming quieter. No, the swords are not turning into plowshares, it’s not that kind of quiet. Instead, it is the sound of truth that’s slowly being silenced. And it’s happening not only because the PA grows stronger, but also because the West grows weaker.

Analysis / Khaled Abu Toameh

Khaled Abu Toameh: The Main Goal of the Palestinian Government

By Khaled Abu Toameh

At a time when many Western governments, the World Bank, and various international organizations are continuing to heap praise on the Palestinian Authority for implementing reforms, the deputy speaker of the Palestinian parliament, Hasan Khreishah, announced that financial and administrative corruption was now more widespread than ever.

Analysis / Khaled Abu Toameh

Khaled Abu Toameh: How The Palestinian Authority Fights Corruption

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Instead of going after top officials suspected of embezzling public funds and abusing their powers, the Palestinian Authority government has chosen to wage an unprecedented clampdown on those who dare to raise their voices in support of transparency and freedom of speech.

Analysis

Salam Fayyad's Hypocrisy

By Mahmoud Dweik

In public, Fayyad tells his people and the rest of the world how much he cares about freedom of expression. He has gone so far as announcing an annual award for press freedoms to be conferred on a deserving Palestinian journalist. Behind the scenes, however, his security officers continue to arrest and intimidate journalists who expose corruption or voice criticism of the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah.

Analysis / Khaled Abu Toameh

Jordan's King Abdullah Needs to Wake Up - Fast

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Jordan has recently witnessed weekly demonstrations calling for far-reaching reforms and an end to financial corruption. King Abdullah did not take the protests seriously at first, but is now desperate to restore calm and order; going as far as ordering the arrest of some of his most trusted officials.

News Briefs

Employees in Palestinian Women’s Affairs Ministry Declare Hunger Strike

By Jewish Press Staff

The female employees are protesting against corruption and harassment in the PA.

News Briefs

Mohammad Dahlan's Assets Seized in Jordan

By Jewish Press Staff

Jordanian action taken at the request of PA leadership.

Serials

Freedom Is the Ownership of Time

By Itamar Frankenthal

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