For more than a year, the State Attorney’s Office has been trying without success to extradite an ultra-Orthodox woman who is wanted in Australia on 74 counts of sexual assault against Jewish girls who were her students in a Melbourne school.
For seven months, State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan has blocked the opening of a disciplinary investigation of Mossad head Yossi Cohen on suspicions he received improper gifts.
A committee charged with vetting major appointments gave the green light Thursday to Shin Bet deputy head Roni Alsheich to become Israel’s next police commissioner, all but ending a months-long search for a new chief for the organization.
Morning broke in Baltimore Tuesday to reveal a city scarred by a night of rioting and looting, as officials moved to ensure that the lawlessness that broke out after the funeral of a black man who died of injuries apparently suffered in police custody would not be repeated.
Violence erupted in parts of downtown Charlotte on Wednesday as anger continued to build over the deadly police shooting of a black man and the different stories about what happened from authorities and the victim’s family and neighbors.
State Attorney Shai Nitzan on Sunday announced that the Police Investigations Department has filed an indictment for breach of trust and violating a duty to report against former Lahav 433 police commander (known as the “Israeli FBI”) Menashe Arbiv with the Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court.
A short, dryly worded draft document quietly issued by the government has Israel’s cyber industry in a uproar, with industry figures saying it threatens to impose limits on exports that will undermine a sector where Israel has staked out a major place in the global market.
The State Department has asked for a copy of the investigation into the inferno that destroyed a 160-year-old Serbian Orthodox church in the Flatiron District, FDNY officials confirm.
The US State Department released its annual report on global terrorist activity on Thursday, listing Iran as the top state sponsor of terrorism and labeling the Islamic State as “the greatest threat globally” and a “formidable force” in Iraq and Syria.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration confirmed for the first time Friday that Hillary Clinton’s unsecured home server contained closely guarded government secrets, censoring 22 emails with material requiring one of the highest levels of classification.
