Ukrainian-born Jew, Semion Mogilevich is the ""boss of bosses" of most Russian Mafia syndicates in the world. Mogilevich is believed to direct a vast criminal empire and is described by the FBI as "the most dangerous mobster in the world". He has been accused by the FBI of "weapons trafficking, contract murders, extortion, drug trafficking, and prostitution on an international scale." --Wikipedia "The Jewish branch of the Russian mafia has created tremendous problems for the Israeli government. There has been a large increase in criminal activity in Israel due to the large influx of Russian-Jews. The Israeli police and intelligence services have focused their resources on the Palestinians and have not paid adequate attention to this growing problem. The Russian Jewish mafia has cooperated with Israeli mafiosi." --Wikipedia 37% of Ukraine Billionaires are Jewish, but less than 0.2% of Ukrainian population. --Wikipedia

That has saved the police and justice system a great deal of money and time!

Neither Abutbol nor any of the heads of the main organized crime families in Israel are from the former Soviet Union. Y'oughta be more circumspect before engaging in such blatant hypocrisy on this subject. In the United States a certain other ethnic group has also been unjustly stereotyped as being associated with the Mafia. Try writing a peer-reviewed paper using Wikipedia as your only reference. LOL.

Jewish crims, cool!

They call them "Arsim". I ran into one of those in Virginia. he went out of business. The guy had the worst attitude. Real DRECK!

The news behind the headlines! Four gunshot wounds in the back. Fifteen stab wounds, and a 20 story fall. Conclusion: Mob boss commits suicide.

Will the JNF plant a grove in honor of this family and the services they rendered to the State of Israel?

The more of these mob bosses that re bumped off the safer the general public will be. should pay these guys to stay off the streets in Israel and do all their dirty deals in Rammaah and Gaza give them something better to do other than carry our terror attacks

why was he not in prison? I bet there are some non Jews in prison for much less?

Oops! Now it's all making sense. Wonder why Benassi would bring up a Moscow-based, Russian-speaking mobster in the comments section for a piece about a Moroccan Israeli mobster? Google "Semion Mogilevich," and a few hits down, you start to notice a pattern in the groups that are 'concerned' about him. Also, wonder why Benassi points out that Ukrainian Jews have more than their 'appropriate' share of wealth in comments for the Abutbul piece? It's because unlike the rest of us, who know that shared Xtianity is no proof of a conspiracy between the Sicilian Cosa Nostra and Nigerian phishers, Benassi needs to believe in a global Jewish conspiracy as a sustaining myth. These are heady days, with White Power shills barely concealing their admiration of Putin, so maybe Steve just fumbled his Wiki-notes between Web sites. (Someone with an Italian surname ought to know why marginalized groups end up in crime anyhow, and Slavic Russians were too comfortable stealing from their cushy bureaucratic jobs to start a private business in the USSR during the 1980s - how sad.) Let's trot out crime statistics by ethnicity or religion, and see who isn't doing their 'fair share' of sin.

...and are typically overrepresented by a factor of 50, and in some cases much more, like in Ukraine, with an Billionaire overrepresentation factor of 185. Jews are overrepresented in good ways, like the Nobel Prize, and in bad ways, like "Stalin's Jews" who murdered over 20 million. Jews are 0.2% of world population, but 11% of US Senate, 11% of Billionaires, an overrepresentation factor of 55.