Israel police scandal

Investigation reportedly shifts to Netanyahu's wife and son.

According to the indictment, which Mor has confessed to as part of a plea bargain, he told lower-ranked women he could advance their careers in an effort to get them to interact with him sexually.

“It derives from the fact that for the police, Arab citizens are often identified as a threat and less as citizens,” Abraham Fund director says.

Mualem knew the policewoman-victim of his sexual harassment as part of his role as a police commander and started to exploit his higher rank and older age to pressure as early as March 2015.

The Israel Police is not actually the body responsible for investigating criminal complaints issued against police officers, rather it is the Justice Ministry’s Police Investigative Department.

"Stubborn self-destructiveness is not rare."

Vice premier's office says the report merely recycles past charges that derailed his 2014 race for president.

The group called Honeinu said one of its activists, Yitzhak Hazot, was taken into custody as he sought to enter the court to observe or assist with the legal proceedings.

To make matters more complicated, the officer in question is at the center of a sexual harassment complaint.

"For the average citizen unlucky enough to be a victim of abuse at the hands of Israeli law enforcement, the statistics are not encouraging."