Shai Avital, the modeling agent who is suspected of committing multiple sexual offenses, is expected to be extradited to Israel on Tuesday, January 3, Israel Police announced on Sunday evening. The 45-year-old, who has been under investigation by the Israel Police since July 2021 for said sexual offenses, will be extradited from Amsterdam where he…
The Norwegian sovereign wealth fund, which manages assets worth $1.3 trillion in 70 countries and about 9,400 companies worldwide, may stop its investments in banks in Israel. Recently, the fund approached local banks with the aim of examining if and how they grant credit and loans to companies operating beyond the Green Line, based on…
Police divers scoured a Berlin canal Sunday in the hunt for priceless 18th-century jewels still missing from the 2019 looting of Dresden’s famous “Green Vault.” The cops’ search of the Landwehr Canal comes about a week after German authorities announced they had recovered the majority of jewels stolen in the infamous $120 million heist at…
The community in Kiryas Joel is reeling from the tragic news of a 5-year-old boy having been R”L struck and killed by a school bus on Sunday morning. The horrific incident unfolded near Forest Road and Seven Springs Mountain Road. Hatzolah rushed to the scene and valiantly attempted to save the boy, but were sadly…
Up until 2015, some of the NGOs managed by newly-elected Israeli lawmaker Yitzchak Goldknopf served as a kind of go-between for obtaining public funds. Two of those NGOs, the Association of Jerusalem Talmud Torahs and the Society of Talmud Torahs, recieved roughly 120 millions shekels a year (roughly $35 million) from the state to operate…
The NYPD Bomb Squad rushed to JFK Airport on Sunday when customs agents found a box that contained a grenade, police and law-enforcement sources said. The weapon was later found to be inert. The emergency call came in around 9:45 a.m. when US Customs and Border Protection agents in Building 250 — a mailing facility…
US actress and producer Whoopi Goldberg once again claimed on Saturday that the Holocaust was not connected to race, less than a year after similar comments led to her two-week suspension as host of “The View.” In an interview with The Sunday Times of London, Goldberg said that the Nazi-orchestrated genocide was “white on white”…
MK Galit Distel Atbaryan of the Likud levelled harsh criticism at former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and called on Israelis to help fund the legal expenses of Likud activist Igal Malka, who is facing a defamation lawsuit filed against him by Bennett. “There is a millionaire con man sitting in his fortress and financially abusing…
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, who faces eight counts of fraud, conspiracy, money laundering and illegal campaign contributions, invested in at least two Israeli startups, StarkWare and Solidus Labs, through his companies FTX Ventures and Alameda Research. StarkWare and Solidus received funding that, according to U.S. investigators, was attained by Bankman-Fried and…
An Israeli man accused of running a $150 million Ponzi scheme was extradited from Bosnia early Sunday to undergo trial, over what is believed to be the worst such scam ever carried out in the Jewish state, police and the Israel Securities Authority said. Michael Ben-Ari, also known as Michael Greenfeld, is an American-Israeli accused…