Diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz is accused of telling tales at his trial in Geneva, where he is accused of corruption linked to mining deals in Guinea.
Steinmetz repeatedly insists that he was an adviser rather than the man at the top of the firm making all the decisions and aware of all the financial details.
The French-Israeli businessman, 64, insists that “never in my life” had he asked anyone to pay money to Mamadie Toure, whom prosecutors say was the fourth wife of former Guinean president Lansana Conte, and a key figure in the case.
Prosecutor Yves Bertossa accuses him of “telling tall tales.”
The widow of a terror victim urges the Israeli government to vaccinate prisoners, including convicted Palestinian terrorists.
Yael Shevach’s husband, Rabbi Raziel Shevach, was killed in a drive-by shooting terror attack in the West Bank in 2018.
In a series of tweets, Shevach writes: “For all of my hatred for terrorist prisoners, I think we must give them vaccines.”
Yael Shevach (L), the wife of Raziel Shevach who was gunned-down in a January 9 terror attack near the Havat Gilad outpost consoles Miriam Ben-Gal, the wife of Itamar Ben-Gal, who was stabbed to death in a February 5 terror attack. Photo taken at Ben-Gal home on February 6, 2018. In the middle is Miriam’s grandmother Esther. (Courtesy)
January 11, 2021 at 4:26 pm
In violation of all religious norms as well as international laws and conventions, Israel is weaponising the Covid-19 vaccine against the Palestinians, whose land, homes and rights are under constant threat from the occupation state.
The Israeli Health Ministry began its vaccination programme on 20 December. Officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that millions of doses had been bought, enough for everyone in Israel. This was deceitful, because the occupation government is not vaccinating some of the most vulnerable people under its control: the Palestinians living under Israeli occupation, for whom Israel is legally and morally responsible; and Palestinian prisoners in its jails.