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Internal Security: November 4, 2012

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A complaint has been filed against Chief of Police, Yohanan Danino, claiming he acted improperly in order to promote the sales of a book published by Yediot Aharonot.  The complaint was filed with the Civil Service Commission by the Ometz movement.

(Hebrew – News1)

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November 4th, 2012 at 11:12 pm

Closed Society: November 16, 2011

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Baruch HaGever*, a book exalting Baruch Goldstein, perpetrator of the Cave of the Patriarchs Massacre, the authors of which were convicted by the Supreme Court of inciting racism, was printed and distributed lately in a new edition, and tens of volumes of it were sold during the memorial marking the 21st anniversary of the killing of former Kach movement head, Meir Kahane.

[*The title can be read as "Blessed is the man" or "Baruch, the man".]

(Hebrew)

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November 16th, 2011 at 9:16 pm