It's getting very sad to see how many government officials are under investigation for shoddy and thieving practices. Israel seems to becoming a corrupt country like the rest of the middle east. Too bad.

Ask hm if he can plead ignorance of law ,Asher Shitrit ,his assistant ,was the money in his possession or in the possession of MK Chaim Amsellem (Shas).The green lane means NOTHING TO DECLARE , carrying MORE THAN 80,000- and still NOTHING TO DECLARE ? So what is the ban ? Not more than 80.000 or to say anything above 80.000 ? IRAS should go in, CPIB should go in, CUstoms & EXCISe should fine/ compound him. May / may not be corruption !

The Shas Party refers to Gays as "Beasts" and have been involved in financial hanky panky for years. Good job catching the guy.

and doesn't know what the law states?! Suuuuuure! Time will tell if we have another politician caught with his hands in the cookie jar.

Shas MK? I can't believe that one of those patriotic, idealistic MKs were to be concerned with something like money. There must be a mistake. Could it have been Monopoly money, perhaps? For a little board game while on a long flight from...where was he coming from, by the way?

Customs seized the worthless shekels and he got away with the uncut diamonds.

The major downfall of the israeli proportional list allocation voting system is that it cannot get rid of corrupt officials on the party lisits. and it gives the most corrupt parties, like shas, the right to knesset representation because people are dumb enough to vote for them. Reform the electoral system! Israel deserves better!

Free flow of money for a free market economy!!!!

Can you spell corrution and lies,Shas doesn't need our tax money for their educational institutions they smuggle it in from abroad and yet the secular educatioanl system in this country is failing our children. Let them use their illgotten gains for their educational system.

Among the thieves that so many of our MKs are, those of Shas manage to stand out as being the kings of thieves. Their voters, who are poor and suffer more than anybody else from this country's corruption, should know better than to keep voting for these thieves.

If anyone needs proof why religion should stay out of politics, Shas is a great example. It's corruption and shady dealings has only served to farther the image of religiously observant Jews in the Israeli public.

Shekels are WORTHLESS.How dare you say this.This is defamation.But you are incriminating yourself about the uncut diamonds.Don't come to Israel;you'll be on the black list.

What B-S he was carrying over $40,000.He walked right through Customs without declaring anything. Another one in a growing list of Political Thieves. The complete Knesset should be fired, closed and made into a parking lot they are the most useless collection of self-centered ZEROS eve.

Greedy, lying scumbags

...at the Airport. Not to defend this crook, of course. He was just protecting the money that Olmert gave Shas to back his plan to de-judaicze the Golan.

Although I am no fan of shas and find their participation in this corrupt government highly unsettling and disturbing, showing a total ignorance of the average Israeli voter. It is striking that straight away Ynet will put the headline "corruption”, while for ramon we never saw a headline "molester". But then again there are many of us who know the leanings and dealings of Ynet and the rest of most of our liberal cool media. Our media has the distinction to only pursue the whole truth and not to manipulate the publics mind and opinion and publish a high quality unbiased form of reporting. Knowing the level of our public school system is struggling with, if there is a school of journalism here in Israel, one can not expect too much

Tut,tut,tut.What language.Where did you learn that?At the Socientology Camp?

standing with Peres for President...

That this guy isn't a Kadima MK

We had,there in Brasil,a recent case of a parlamentaire caught with thousand of dollars in his innocent underpants,trying to evade the money from the country -or the city,I don't remember! I think the officials stopped him ,maybe, because he seemed too fat in the rear end! Then,it was the turn of an evangelical Reverend,also belonging to the Brasil's parlament ,caught with thousand of Dollars and Reals that he ,innocently ,gathered from his sheeps on his evangelical church as the Dizime! Yes...what to say more?

There is a free flow of money , but you have to declare it . The same if you transfer big sums abroad , you have to give the reason . This to control the "cleaning" of unkosher money . This is the same when you transfer money in other countries , give a serious reason and origin of it

But how do you know about transferring large sums of money ?? Practice or theory????

In practice . In European countries , even if you exchange sums over 10,000 Euro you had to give justifications . The same if you transfer sums . This was the law .

That is the money for my mother's eye operation!

In practice!!! You actually transfer such large sums of money around Europe??!!Send me some,please;I am very poor P.S.Colin is my pseudonym:GOTTCHA!!!