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Screen captuer from video of investigator collecting forensic evidence from a quaratine hotel in Jaffa as part of a alleged rape case. (video screenshot)
The Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court on Thursday extended by five days the remand of a man from southern Israel suspected of raping a 13-year-old girl at a Jaffa quarantine hotel for coronavirus carriers under the care of welfare services.
A police representative told the court that the 21-year-old suspect raped the girl twice and also choked and beat her.
The Welfare Ministry said in a statement that its staff at the hotel “intervened in real-time” during the incident and immediately reported to the police.
Shaul Elovitch arrives at the Jerusalem District Court on May 24, 2020. (Amit Shabi/Pool/Flash90)
The former owner of telecommunications giant Bezeq, Shaul Elovitch, was indicted Wednesday on charges of fraud, breach of trust, receiving illicit gifts and violations of the Securities Law, in a case that had previously led to the opening of the most serious of the three cases for which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently on trial.
The securities case involving Elovitch and other former major Bezeq officials is separate from the case against Netanyahu, known as Case 4000, in which Elovitch is also a defendant along with his wife Iris.