MONSEY – Firefighters trying to tackle flames and smoke shooting from a large Calvert Drive apartment building were blocked from entering the complex by dozens of boxes stored in a warehouse space among the units.
25-year-old Elisa Zamlen and her partner, 30-year-old Alexander Radin, were charged with a slew of prostitution-related crimes on Sunday.
Liquidators of bankrupt mining magnate Joe Gutnick’s failed Legend International are investigating the transfer of phosphate deposits worth up to $87 million to a company controlled by his sister and nephew as the group teetered on the brink of collapse in April.
A haredi youth was beaten by an Egged bus driver during a trip from Jerusalem to Tiberias last Thursday night.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was released Monday morning, beginning a 48-hour furlough. The two-day outing marks the first time the former Prime Minister has been seen in public since he began serving his 19-month prison term in February.
A French court sentenced Arnaud Mimran, a tycoon who previously donated money to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to eight years in prison on fraud charges.
Nochi Dankner, formerly one of the most powerful businessmen in Israel, was found guilty on Monday of stock manipulation and other securities’ offenses.
An indictment is being prepared against talmidei yeshiva from Bnei Brak who are suspected of operating a drug ring.
A former member of the Ger Hasidic sect, the largest and most powerful in Israel, last week published the secretive group’s takuness the rules regulating every tiny facet of daily life, particularly those concerning the relations between men and women on Facebook.
A court in central Israel convicted a man on Tuesday of murdering two of his wives.
