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"Minister Haim Katz will be prosecuted subject to a hearing on suspicion of tax evasion in the amount of NIS 2.2 million," Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit officially announced on Tuesday evening. According to the suspicion, Katz generated rental income from seven real estate properties, some of which are registered in his ownership and some of which were registered in the name of his family members. According to a statement from the Ministry of Justice tonight, the investigation material allegedly shows that between 2007-2018 Katz did not report his income from some of the seven assets...

Mayor Or Akiva and former minister Yaakov Edri was arrested along with three other suspects as part of a corruption investigation. His name was allowed to be published with the extension of his detention for six days in the Magistrate's Court in Rishon Lezion. Judge Guy Avnon ruled regarding the mayor: "The suspect before me, the senior suspect, is the one who allegedly heads the criminal hierarchy for a series of acts committed over a long period of time." During the hearing, it became clear that the covert investigation against the mayor has been going on for a year. At the beginning of...

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit this evening (Thursday) addressed Finance Minister Israel Katz and clarified to him that "the post of Accountant General cannot be left unmanned." The minister replied that he agreed and would work for the nomination of a candidate already at the next cabinet meeting. Since the retirement of former accountant Roni Hezekiah last month, no deputy has been appointed to the position. "The role and powers of the Accountant General are of great importance in general, and in the period in which we are in particular," the ombudsman clarified, noting that in his...

A 41% increase in the number of bankruptcy applications filed from the beginning of 2020 to mid-November compared to the same period in 2019. This is according to a report by the Commissioner of Insolvency Proceedings in the Ministry of Justice, the state-responsible body for managing and supervising individual bankruptcy proceedings. Dissolution and recovery of companies and creditors' arrangements. Data reflecting an increase in bankruptcy filings indicate that following the Corona crisis, many businesses and individuals find themselves in financial turmoil and having difficulty staying...

After last week about 4,500 Israelis paid the fines imposed on them for violating the corona regulations in the total amount of NIS 2.4 million, the 100,000 reported reports line was crossed. This is reported by the Center for the Collection of Fines in the Enforcement and Collection Authority. The center reports that in the past week, about 11,000 corona reports were issued to citizens in the amount of about NIS 8 million. In the last month, Israelis were given an average of 11,000 corona fines a week. Since the beginning of the corona crisis, more than 376,000 fines have been distributed

The hacker group Pay2Key, which is suspected to be linked to Iran, released a database on Sunday evening that it said was stolen from the computers of IAI's Elta Division. The aerospace industry said the issue was under investigation. At least some of the names on the list do belong to Elta employees. For example, one employee whose name appeared on the list even appeared before a committee in the Knesset and whose name was published in the minutes of the same committee that is available on the Internet. The Iranian hacker group has already revealed last week that it has managed to break...

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit informed Interior Minister Aryeh Deri that after examining the evidence gathered in the investigation file in which he was questioned as a suspect, he is considering prosecuting him for tax offenses in three incidents, subject to a hearing. The case begins with an undercover investigation that began at the National Fraud Investigation Unit (JHA) in Lahav 433, with the assistance of the Anti-Money Laundering Authority, which raised an alleged suspicion of government corruption offenses. At the same time, an evidentiary basis was found for the commission...

Israel is at the forefront of enforcing restrictions as part of the fight against the corona virus. This is according to data collected by the Israel Police from its partners around the world. For comparison, 30,000 reports have been distributed in the UK so far, compared to 522,000 reports distributed in Israel. This emerges from data presented by the Israel Police. In recent months, the Israel Police has been holding online meetings with police around the world in order to learn about their challenges there, and try to find solutions to local challenges. Among other things, the police...

The district court today (Wednesday) rejected the appeal filed by Twitter against a decision given in September in the Magistrate's Court - in which it was determined that Linoy Bar-Geffen could file a defamation lawsuit against the company in Israel. The lawsuit, for NIS 300,000, was filed by Bar Geffen in 2019 against Twitter (+ 3.89% 47.72) - after she asked her twice to remove an abusive and blatant tweet posted against her and her partner - and was denied. Only after contacting lawyer Guy Ophir and he turned to Twitter, the tweet was removed. According to Bar Geffen, her inquiries...

Facebook suspended the Likud's propaganda chat, Bibi Bot, this week, following a post calling for the public to be given personal details of citizens who have not yet been vaccinated in Corona, the social network confirmed tonight. On Saturday, Dr. Anat Ben-David of the Open University revealed that Bibi Bot, a key figure in Likud election campaign in the form of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is asking his followers to send him confidential medical information about their relatives and acquaintances. We have not yet been vaccinated, "he wrote," you can write to me here in response to...