Israel police investigators involved in the ongoing case against the senior management of the Chadrei Chareidim website are calling upon the state attorney general to close the site down. Police feel they have gathered sufficient evidence to support allegations of extortion by the suspects.
“G”, the CEO of the website is the main suspect police confirm. Five arrests have been made to date, with some of the suspects released with restrictions while others are behind bars.
Police are confirming that senior website officials extorted victims by telling them if they did not make monthly payments, negative publicity about them would continue or alternatively, they would accept payoffs to post positive articles.
Police today approached Housing Minister Ariel Atias to see if he was one of the victims of the website’s alleged extortion racket but his aides state this was not the case.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Can someone please comment if Chadrei Chareidim is a major website in Israel? Is its clientele mainly Chareidim? Who owns it? Is it only in Hebrew? Is it a message board?
Uts a fairly big site, has 50000 hits a day, by both frum and no frummers, owned by global networks, the coe is non frum, he is “g” in the article
Has very active forums
Any further questions??
Its mainly in hebrew, there are a few forums in english
The news site is hebrew, there was talk of doing an english version
Check it out bhol.co.il
it is a major website amongst the chareidim who use the internet in israel. it is a portal for all things chareidi mostly news and the latest on rabbonim roshei yeshiva gedolim and admorim the link is below.
it has an english link it is not a message board
http://www.bhol.co.il