{"id":236896,"date":"2026-08-05T12:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/236896\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T12:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:58:07","slug":"israel-police-conclude-newspaper-probe-into-shas-mk-over-public-education-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/236896\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Police conclude newspaper probe into Shas MK over public education funds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police have completed an investigation involving Shas<\/a> MK Haim Biton and several other figures over suspicions that public education funds were improperly used to produce a children\u2019s supplement distributed with the privately owned, Shas-affiliated newspaper HaDerech, the force announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The file was transferred to the State Attorney\u2019s Office\u2019s taxation and economics department for review and a decision on further proceedings.<\/p>\n

The investigation examined whether Education Ministry<\/a> budgets allocated to the Ma\u2019ayan HaHinuch HaTorani education network were used without lawful authorization for the supplement rather than the network\u2019s approved educational activities.<\/p>\n

Biton<\/a> previously served as director-general of the network.<\/p>\n

The investigation also concerned the network\u2019s procurement director, Moshe Avitan, and other HaDerech officials, according to police.<\/p>\n

The probe began covertly before becoming public on March 18, 2025. The suspected offenses included fraud and breach of trust, obtaining something by fraud<\/a>, theft or fraudulent misappropriation, false entries in corporate documents, and offenses under anti-money laundering law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have completed an investigation involving Shas MK Haim Biton and several other figures over suspicions that public…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[1105,17913,3580,37,1103,15347],"class_list":["post-236896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-crime","tag-education-ministry","tag-investigation","tag-israel","tag-police","tag-shas"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117043023315083200","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}