The last in line: Minister of Social Equality May Golan. Among other things, she is suspected of fraud, abuse of government fees for private purposes and creating fake functions for her friends at the ministry. According to reporting in the media, the wife of her legal adviser, who runs a dog grooming salon, was on the payroll.
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Golan, member of De Likud, made it very colorful last week. Her mother was questioned by the police about the case, after which she went to the desk and took her home during a visit, screaming against agents. An official who was involved in the investigation told Israeli TV: “The behavior of the minister during her mother’s interrogation gives us the impression that she simply came to ensure that her mother is silent in the investigation and does not burden her. That is typical behavior for criminals, where the immunity is abused by the minister.”
Mother Rimona would now hide in her daughter’s apartment, who refuses to make a statement.
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May was also present at the hearing about the extension of the custody of one of her employees. Media suggest that the goal was to make it clear to him that he should not fold out of the school. A total of six Golan employees were picked up. Among them a secretary with whom the police found a weed plantation at home.
At the top of the list is Benjamin Netanyahu
The list of ministers accused of criminal behavior is long, even for a country where in the past a former president and former Prime Minister prison sentences were already sitting. At the top of course Benjamin Netanyahu himself is currently, who is currently on trial in three corruption cases. In addition, the current Prime Minister is searched for the suspicion of war crimes worldwide.
His close employees are also suspected of leaking state secrets, to improve the position of the prime minister, and because of PR work for Qatar, the financier and patron of Hamas. Earlier this month, Israel carried out a controversial attack on that country.
Just like his former Minister of Defense Gallant, Netanyahu also has an arrest warrant of the International Criminal Court hanging on his pants because of the war in Gaza. Two other members of his cabinet have been declared persona non grata for other reasons by a series of countries. The radical Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir is also controversial in his own country, where he was convicted of eight times in the past, including for support to a terror organization.
He now, if the police are in charge, is constantly going beyond his authority, according to the public prosecutor. He also constantly gives his driver the assignment to drive too hard and and through the red light. That already led to an accident. The other minister who no longer comes in in many countries, also occupied Smotrich, has also kept a very dubious past: in 2005 he was kept free by the domestic security service in 2005 on suspicion of planning an attack as a protest against the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
Suspect Ministers
In addition, the current criminal investigations against a number of ministers are not too bad. Energy Minister Eli Cohen is associated with accusing his ministry unlawfully diplomatic passports to a few lick politicians and the son of Netanyahu. Minister of Transport Miri Regev is suspected of ranking municipalities and mayor to the political support they offer to her personally. According to the accusations, someone who was well -minded received support for transport projects. For mayors of ‘red’ cities, she did not even answer the phone. REGEV itself denies.
Hanoch Milwidsky does that too. He is being investigated for accusation of rape. As a legal adviser, he would have talked to a lady to make a false statement in a case against the leader of a religious movement, accused of sexual abuse. He would then have raped this woman. Despite the heavy allegation, Milwidsky became. Recently appointed as chairman of the important Knesset committee for Finance.
Against another Member of Parliament of Likud, David Bitan, a lawsuit started earlier this month. He is suspected of accepting bribes, fraud and money laundering. He would have received money from criminal organizations and businessmen, which was stored by a partner in a back room of a furniture store.
Prison
The list is even longer. Minister of Heritage Amichai Eliyahu, who suggested throwing an atomic bomb on Gaza shortly after 7/10, is being investigated criminal because he had violently invaded a military prison in protest against soldiers who had been arrested there on suspicion of mistreatment of Palestinian terror suspects.
Netanyahu’s national security adviser Tzachi Hangebi, previously convicted of perjury, is suspected of bribery, although it is a relatively small business. Haim Biton, until last summer education minister, would have used public funds to finance a newspaper that is affiliated with his SAS party.
Party leader convicted several times
His party leader, Arieh Deri, has been convicted several times in the past, including due to tax evasion. As a result, the judge decided that he may not sit in the current coalition. Netanyahu, however, let him sit everywhere in the last three years and would promote legislation that makes the return of Deri possible.
That is one of the major criticisms in the country anyway. That a government that is so involved in criminal investigations wants to limit the power of the judges and also does everything to send the public prosecutor the Laan. Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who is working on a political comeback, also warned officials this week against the law. According to they are under pressure from politics to do that. “Don’t be afraid,” Bennett said in a message on social media. “The current government will be replaced soon.”