Painful as it may be, it appears there is a significant chareidi involvement in the Holyland investigation. According to a Tuesday night Channel 10 News report, a check cashing store located on Rabbi Akiva Street in Bnei Brak is also involved, used to channel funds involved in the bribery fraud case, investigators believe. The operator of the check cashing store was brought in for questioning by police, and the owner confronted suspect Meir Rabin, who apparently maintained his silence, still uncooperative with police. The report stated that there is a video, compliments of a state witness, which incriminates Rabin here too.
Correspondent Avichai Ben-Chaim reported that the investigation led to papers from the state’s Non-Profit Registrar, which points to a suspected connection to an organization called HaKeren L’Hatzalat Chinuch Torani (The Fund to Save Torah Education). The paper trial points to three checks totaling NIS 150,000, checks that passed through the organization on May 23, 2001. The name appearing on the donation is the state witness, a secular gentleman, whose name may not be released at this time.
The report states the state witness claims the benefactor specifically wanted to make a donation to an organization connected to the family of Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita. He explains that he was assured the money would be used by one of the organization’s connect to HaRav Ovadia, and that was fine with him.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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So the gravemen of the complaint is that, being a check cashing service serving as a de facto bank, he faciliated people making donations to tsadakah. That’s a crime???? Businesses have always been willing to donate to support public needs as a form of public relations – it goes back to antiquity, and it is a good thing.
The hiloni press say he also served as a bank and transferred money to a variety of people. It should be noted that most banks transfer lots of money to a lot of different people.
I’m not saying everyone frum is innocent of a crime – but certainly nothing released so far suggests any wrongdoing on their part.
Let’s face it – as always no one is guilty of anything. It never happened.
“Painful as it may be, it appears there is a significant chareidi involvement in the Holyland investigation”.
And why not? Chareidim are no better and no worse than any of HaShem’s creations.
Our problem is that we, as a community, acknowledge the former but we prefer to ignore the latter.