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Police and Crime / Palestinian Authority / Jerusalem

PA Arab Hiding in Jerusalem Church Defrauded Israelis of Thousands of Shekels

By Pesach Benson / TPS

He was arrested for fraud, extortion, impersonating others, and illegally being in Israel,

Police and Crime / News Briefs

Global Forex Network Busted by Israel and Germany Defrauded Millions of Euros

By Pesach Benson / TPS

The suspects are believed to have facilitated fraudulent activities worth tens of millions of Euros for hundreds of forex offices worldwide, with criminal organizations in Israel and other countries benefiting from their illicit gains.

Police and Crime / News Briefs / France

Israeli Police Arrest Man Posing as French Official to Defraud Diplomats

By Pesach Benson / TPS

While searching the suspect’s house, police found fraudulent royal seals.

Police and Crime

Son of Former IDF Chief Among Suspects in $35 million Scam

By Israel Hayom

The suspects allegedly presented victims with a fake “world changing” technology in which to invest, setting up straw companies across the globe.

The Courts / The Knesset

MK Haim Katz Indicted for Fraud, Will Only Pay a Fine

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

After waiving his parliamentary immunity, an indictment was filed against Member of Knesset (MK) Haim Katz.

The Courts / The Knesset

Former Arab MK Hanin Zoabi Convicted of Fraud and Forgery

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

The Balad party gave out fake receipts to hide that their election-related donations came from other sources.

Police and Crime / The Knesset / Israeli Arabs

Former MK Hanin Zoabi to be Indicted on Fraud Charges

By Israel Hayom

Israeli attorney general Avichai Mandelblit decides not to put her Balad Party on trial despite evidence indicating its guilt, citing potential harm to a “wider circle.”

Featured / Israel / Police and Crime / Central America / South America / Coronavirus

Israeli Institute Developing COVID-19 Vaccine Warns of Fake Shots Circulating in Latin America

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Ampoules of a fake Coronavirus vaccine labeled with a forged Migal Institute’s logo in Hebrew are illegally being manufactured and circulated in several South American countries.

Headline / Palestinian Authority

Palestinian Authority Financial Crisis is Fake

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Israeli Finance Ministry data shows that even after Israeli deductions due to the P.A.'s "pay for slay" program, the P.A. would have still received more money in each of the first two months of 2019 than it did on average per month in 2018.

Headline / Israeli Arabs / The Knesset / Police and Crime

Police Recommend Corruption Indictments Against 3 Joint Arab List MKs

By JNi.Media

The investigators initially estimated that the party concealed money received from more than a thousand private donors and organizations in Israel and around the world.

Israel / Police and Crime / Religion

4 Fake Rabbis under House Arrest

By JNi.Media

The four are suspected of fraudulently obtaining the "competency certificate" without taking the certification exams.

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.

Terrorism / Israel / Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs

Israeli Officials Outraged Over Humanitarian Aid Transferred to Hamas

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

World Vision adamantly denied the allegations against El-Halabi in the indictment and claimed that the organization continuously made certain that all its humanitarian aid was not misappropriated

Terrorism / Politics / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority

PMW Reports PA's 'Billion Dollar Fraud'

By JNi.Media

The PA is deceiving Western donors, falsely claiming to have stopped paying terrorist prisoners' salaries

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.

Israel / Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs

Not So Kosher Shemittah L'Mehadrin

By Shalom Bear

At best, the Hareidim have been eating "Heter Mechira". At worse, they've been eating vegetables grown in sewer water or pesticides from unknown and unsupervised Arabs fields.

Israel / NY / Politics / News Briefs

New York's Grimm: Indictment Result of 'Witch Hunt'

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Grimm said the indictment was a "political witch hunt" against him because he "was an outsider who wasn't supposed to win."

Israel / Jewish / US / News Briefs

Israeli Museum Names Hall for US Fugitive Kobi Alexander

By Jewish Press News Desk

Only in Israel. The Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv is naming a hall after U.S. fugitive and former Comverse technology CEO Kobi Alexander, who along with his sister donated money for renovating the museum’s Glass Pavilion, now called the Shaula and Kobi Alexander Center. Alexander, a native of Israel, fled to Namibia in 2006 […]

Government / News Briefs

Court Orders New Elections in Beit Shemesh

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The Jewish Home party won its day in court on Thursday with an administration court ruling that the October 22 elections for the Beit Shemesh mayor and city council are invalid because of suspected fraud. The court ordered a new vote. Jewish Home mayoral candidate lost the election by 956 votes to Shas party incumbent […]

Israel / Politics / News Briefs

Haredi Voters in Beit Shemesh Admit They Gave ID Cards to Others

By Jewish Press News Desk

Several Haredi residents in Beit Shemesh have confessed to police investigators that they gave the identification cards to others to vote in their place, Israel radio reported. On Election Day, police confiscated approximately 200 identification cards and disguises. Attorney General Yehudah Weinstein appealed to the courts to violate the recent elections in Beit Shemesh, and […]

News Briefs / Religion / Judaism

Former Followers of ‘Kabbalah Centre' Sue for Fraud

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Orthodox rabbis for years have denounced the “Kabbalah Centre” as being a fraud of mysticism, Madonna and Britney Spears notwithstanding. Now former followers have sued for financial fraud.

Government / News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel

Attorney General May Appeal to Court for New Elections in Beit Shemesh

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

A police raid on two homes before the elections last month uncovered 250 false identification cards that people intended to use to cast extra ballots.

Police and Crime / News Briefs / Jerusalem / Settlements

Niso Shacham Quitting Police Following Sexual Assault Indictment

By Jewish Press News Desk

Niso Shacham ordered his police officers to violently beat civilians, ahead of the Gush Katif expulsion.

Op-Eds

Dealing With Abuse And Theft In Jewish Nonprofits

By Jake Goldstein

The pressure to live a lifestyle of the rich and famous can be overwhelming. This just serves, of course, to increase the risk of fraud and deceit.

Op-Eds

A Call to Action: Shut Down the Claims Conference

By Guest Author

After helping themselves to large salaries and allowing fraud to persist under their noses for over a decade, the Claims Conference is too broke to serve the survivors.

US / News Briefs / Holocaust

Sharansky, Lauder Call for Claims Conference Reform

By JTA

Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky and World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder called on the Claims Conference to be reviewed by outside agencies in an investigation following the disclosure of a $57 million fraud scheme. Sharansky and Lauder released a joint statement on the first day of the Claims Conference board meeting on Tuesday, criticizing […]

US / News Briefs / Holocaust

Bitter Dispute over Claims Conference Fraud Report

By Jewish Press Staff

There’s no peace for the Claims Conference. It is not enough it was caught with defrauding Holocaust funds of $57 million. Two members of the panel that investigated the Conference quit over its report.

US / News Briefs / Holocaust

Ringleader Found Guilty in $57M Fraud at Claims Conference

By JTA

Semen Domnister, the former Claims Conference employee who was charged with leading a $57 million fraud scheme at the Holocaust restitution organization, was found guilty Wednesday by a U.S. District Court jury in Manhattan after a four-week trial. Domnitser and two others, Oksana Romalis and Luba Kramrish, were found guilty on all counts., and 28 […]

Israel / Politics / The Courts / News Briefs

Who Is Lying, Ayalon or Lieberman?

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Former Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon testified in court Thursday against his former boss, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who is on trial for allegedly trying to win an ambassadorial post for Ze’ev Ben Aryeh, who police say tipped off Lieberman about a police probe against him in Belarus. Ayalon was head of the Foreign Ministry […]

Goldstein on Gelt

How to Prevent Fraud Crimes Against the Elderly

By Doug Goldstein, CFP®

An interview with Doug Shadel, senior state director of Washington’'s AARP and a leading expert on fraud and the elderly.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter II

By Ruchama Feuerman

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