The Justice Ministry’s Police Investigations Unit has completed its job and 47 criminal indictments are filed as a result. Most of the indictments were handed down against policemen or former policemen who presented fictitious rabbinical ordination certificates towards earning themselves a higher salary. In some cases, the defendants are accused to illegally obtaining NIS thousands and tens of thousands as a result of the forged certificates.

The organization representing wives of policemen released a statement they plan to fight the indictments, insisting their extra money earned by their husbands was legally approved and there is no basis for the criminal actions against them.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)