Police announced on Thursday after investigation of Shoham Yosef, director of Ayalon Prison in Ramla, that it would recommend prosecuting him on charges of rape and indecent acts while exploiting police power.
Substitute teacher Shaul Shamai was indicted in the Tel Aviv District Court on Thursday for indecently assaulting several seven-year-old girls and one 13-year-old girl. He was also charged with failing to report his previous conviction for sexual offenses to the school where he was employed.
A former Kfar Saba city councilman was indicted on charges of sexual assault Wednesday morning, roughly two weeks after he was arrested following complaints by at least four individuals who claim he committed sexual acts on them in his car outside of the city of Elad in central Israel, Behadrei Haredim reported.
The Israel Police is expected to call in for questioning under caution a number of Tel Aviv nightclub owners, after a young woman filed a rape complaint against real-estate mogul Alon Kastiel.
The police in Bnei Brak asked the public for help in determining other cases a suspect in the violent assault on a six year old child may have been involved in.
A lawmaker from the right-wing Jewish Home party was being questioned under caution by police on Sunday as part of an ongoing inquiry into allegations of sexual harassment against him.
The police arrested 22 Haredim in Jerusalem and three other Israeli cities on Monday morning, on suspicion of sexually molesting minors and women over the last two years.
Police arrested a couple in their 30s on Saturday on suspicion of severe sexual assault and abuse of their four-year-old son while he was hospitalized in Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer.
The Supreme Court has handed down its decision in the appeal of Yonatan Heilo, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison after murdering his rapist.
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan fired a former top police officer on Tuesday, nearly two years after he was first reprimanded for failing to report a sexual harassment complaint against former Jerusalem Police Chief Nisso Shaham and for lying about the complaint during question by Justice Ministry investigators.
