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Israeli Business Tycoon Moshe Hogeg Accused of $290 Million Crypto Scam Following Two-Year Probe Jerusalem Controversy

Israeli Business Tycoon Moshe Hogeg Accused of $290 Million Crypto Scam Following Two-Year Probe

Source: LinkedIn / CanvaBusiness tycoon and former owner of Beitar Jerusalem FC, Moshe Hogeg, has been accused by the Israeli police of orchestrating a $290 million crypto scam. According to the authorities, Hogeg raised a staggering $290 million from investors both in Israel and internationally through four cryptocurrency projects between…
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August 23, 2023
Church leaders plead with Israeli government as anti-Christian incidents increase in Holy Land Jerusalem Controversy

Church leaders plead with Israeli government as anti-Christian incidents increase in Holy Land

JERUSALEM (RNS) — As anti-Christian incidents perpetrated by religious Jewish extremists have increased in number during the past several months, church leaders are pleading with government officials to take the matter more seriously.    Until recently, those pleas have gone largely unheeded. Preoccupied with an unprecedented political crisis sparked by…
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August 21, 2023
Ukraine threatens to shut border to Uman pilgrims, citing Israeli deportations Jerusalem Controversy

Ukraine threatens to shut border to Uman pilgrims, citing Israeli deportations

Ukraine over the weekend renewed threats to close its borders to Israeli pilgrims making their way to the city of Uman for Rosh Hashanah next month to retaliate for Israel deporting Ukrainian tourists. In a weekly address on Saturday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky urged that the “rights of Ukrainian citizens…
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August 20, 2023
Dermer meeting with Blinken in Washington anything but routine Jerusalem Controversy

Dermer meeting with Blinken in Washington anything but routine

(August 18, 2023 / JNS) The U.S. State Department described Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s Thursday morning meeting with Israel Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, who is known as “Bibi’s brain,” as low-key. “The secretary reaffirmed the United States’ enduring friendship and steadfast commitment to Israel’s security,” Matthew Miller, the…
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August 18, 2023
Homophobic conference held in Jerusalem after two locales refuse to host Jerusalem Controversy

Homophobic conference held in Jerusalem after two locales refuse to host

A conference for educators that featured supporters of gay conversion therapy and other homophobic content went ahead at a hall in Jerusalem on Tuesday after two other locales declined to host the event. The conference, put together by the Even Yisrael organization, was disavowed earlier this month by the Education…
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June 27, 2023
Cigars and champagne: What’s next in Netanyahu’s trial as Milchan testifies? Jerusalem Controversy

Cigars and champagne: What’s next in Netanyahu’s trial as Milchan testifies?

Israeli film producer and businessman Arnon Milchan, who lives in Los Angeles, confirmed on Monday at the Old Ship Hotel hall in Brighton, England, that he bought gifts, including champagne bottles, cigars and a necklace, for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, but he claimed not knowing that…
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June 26, 2023