Four months after the Besheva magazine affiliated with Israel National News first broke the story of an eight-year-old “transgender” girl dressed as a boy learning in a state-religious school in Givat Shmuel, the saga is no nearer and possibly even further from resolution. Last week, when students returned to school following the Hanukkah break, parents…
Rabbi Yaakov Meir Schechter, one of the great Breslov Hasidim, disappeared Saturday night from the apartment that he had been living in for the last few weeks in Beit Shemesh. The Jerusalem District Police detectives are investigating to find where Rabbi Schechter was taken to, as well as attempting to trace some of his grandchildren,…
Israel’s courts extended the arrest on Sunday of a Chief Rabbinate official, who was arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing a minor over a decade ago for several years, according to an Israel Police spokesperson. The suspect, a resident of Jerusalem in his 40s and a former boss of the complainant’s father, was arrested last…
Israeli company ImageSat International, controlled by FIMI private equity fund, successfully launched the EROS-C3 observation satellite into space on Friday. The satellite owned by ImgageSat International and developed and manufactured by Israel Aircraft Industries, was launched using the SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. ImageSat specializes in solutions for collection…
The Mossad under current Director David Barnea has ratcheted up its technology revolution, with flashes of his new style even appearing in some operations he helped manage as deputy director, the Jerusalem Post has learned. Shortly after Barnea took over he replaced a number of top Mossad officials and reorganized certain departments to more significantly…
The Israeli company OrboGraph, which uses AI to prevent fraud, was acquired for over $100 million. OrboGraph detects and analyzes fraudulent checks, and provides automated healthcare payment processing. The company is focused on detecting and preventing fraud in the US, Israel, and other countries, and uses advanced recognition algorithms and AI to read each document and…
Atlas Elektronik, a subsidiary of German giant ThyssenKrupp, has signed a deal with Vsense Technologies, which will see it invest millions of euros in the Israeli company. This project is part of ThyssenKrupp’s industrial cooperation plan with Israeli industry, which was approved by the Industrial Cooperation Authority (ICA) in July 2021. Vsense is a supplier…
The suspected fraudster allegedly scammed 960 investors out of NIS 550 million through a pyramid scheme. Mike Ben-Ari who was last week extradited from Bosnia to Israel was today indicted of defrauding NIS 550 million from 960 investors. Ben-Ari was charged with aggravated fraud, forging documents, and money laundering offenses. Together with the indictment, the…
A Beit Shemesh man was indicted on Friday over the torching of a cellphone store in Jerusalem several months ago. According to prosecutors, Yehoshua Dadon, 34, and three others broke into the store in October and set it alight because the shop did not comply with religious strictures restricting the devices. The resulting blaze destroyed…
Police arrested a suspect allegedly involved in launching a blazing dumpster on wheels that slammed into a passerby and seriously injured her during protests in Jerusalem earlier this month, authorities said Sunday. The suspect was arrested in the capital’s ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim, police said. The area was the scene of riots of December 15 that…