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Two Nice Jewish Boys: Episode 154 – Evading Indictments and Taking Down Governments

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September 13, 2019

Aesop, the great Greek storyteller, once said “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”

Israel, just like any country with a government, has a history of political corruption. Ehud Olmert, Ariyeh Deri, Moshe Katzav, these are all names that are synonymous in most tIsraeli minds with the concept of political corruption.

One party that has been especially dogged by corruption charges is Israel Beyteinu, the party founded and headed by Avigdor Liberman.

Today we’re joined by the amazing journalist Simona Weinglass. Simona is an old friend of the podcast, she joined us around two years ago to discuss the fraudulent Binary Options industry we she helped to take down with her groundbreaking expose in the Times of Israel titled the Wolves of Tel Aviv.

Today, Simona joins us to talk about corruption in Israel.

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