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Shomrim - European Double Standards: One Hand Slaps Sanctions on Israel, the Other Buys Advanced Weapons Systems

Several months into its war against Hamas, Israel started facing heavy international pressure. Apart from mass protests on the streets, and legal proceedings initiated by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the most significant pressure exerted on Israel was in the field of defense procurement. As Shomrim revealed in September, Germany almost completely halted its export of offensive weapons to Israel; France banned Israeli companies from participating in major security exhibitions in...

Exclusive: How Israel’s Settlers Bypass U.S. Sanctions

Investigation published in Calcalist, Israel's leading economics newspaper.

Since the beginning of the year, the United States and other countries have adopted a tough stance, imposing sanctions on Israeli individuals suspected of being connected to settler violence and far-right organizations. Shomrim uncovers the tactics used to evade these sanctions – from cash-only donations and funneling money through relatives to creating buffers between potential donors and sanctioned individuals

The Quiet Wave: ‘What’s Happening Now in Russia Is Like a Plague – With Real Fascists’

Investigation published in Mako, one of the major Israeli news website.
Over the past two and a half years, around 85,000 Russians have fled to Israel to escape the Putin regime. Back home, they were artists, academics, journalists, and activists. In Israel, they are seeking a fresh start, coping with poverty, and trying to learn Hebrew. They won’t even consider returning to Russia: “I couldn’t breathe there.” Shomrim takes a look at the largest wave of aliyah you’ve never heard of.
AP News •

Far-right groups that block aid to Gaza receive tax-deductible donations from US and Israel

JERUSALEM (AP) — Under American pressure, Israel has pledged to deliver large quantities of humanitarian aid into the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. But at the same time, the U.S. and Israel have allowed tax-deductible donations to far-right groups that have blocked that aid from being delivered.Three groups that have prevented humanitarian aid from reaching Gaza — including one accused of looting or destroying supplies — have raised more than $200,000 from donors in the U.S. and Israel, The Associated...

Shomrim - Exclusive: Israel Dismissed Ukrainian Warnings About Iranian Drones and Declined Offers of Assistance

Scoop published in Israel's most popular media, N12.
No army in the world has more experience combatting Iranian drones than Ukraine, which has been dealing with them for over two years. Long before October 7, just after the Netanyahu government was sworn in, the then Ukrainian defense minister Oleksiy Reznikov offered to send a delegation to Israel to teach the IDF everything it knows about Iranian drones. ‘Unfortunately, there was no genuine response,’ he tells Shomrim. Those same drones, which are now wreaking havoc in the north, are the greatest challenge facing the IDF. A Shomrim investigation.

Exclusive: Israel Dismissed Ukrainian Warnings About Iranian Drones and Declined Offers of Assistance

A Shomrim investigation. Published also in N12, Israel's most read media outlet.
Ukrainian officials said that they repeatedly offered knowledge and help to counter Iranian drones to Israel. Israel refused, and is now struggling to counter these drones over its own sky.
“Late in 2022, we started to send messages to Israel,” Oleksii Reznikov, the former Ukrainian defense minister, reveals in a conversation with Shomrim.
OCCRP •

Dubai Unlocked - OCCRP

From its humble days as desert tradepost to its current status as a global financial hub, Dubai has long served as a crossroads for commerce.
But it's not just financiers and footballers who are rubbing shoulders in the city’s glitzy skyscrapers and villa communities today.
Dubai has also become a meeting point for men and women from around the globe who have been accused of criminality and corruption.
With a reputation for financial secrecy, low taxes, and an ever-expanding spread of valu...

Investigation: How the UAE Became a Hub for Investments by Hezbollah, Drug Dealers and Putin Cronies

An international investigation, relying on a leaked database of real estate ownership in the United Arab Emirates, reveals that approximately 1,000 Palestinians from the West Bank possess property in the country, collectively valued at around $500 billion. As of 2022, Palestinians own roughly 1,500 residential properties in the UAE, with an average value of approximately $330,000 per property. Further scrutiny of the data indicates that the average investment of each Palestinian individual in th...
The Forward •

'Jewish enough to be murdered,' but not buried in a Jewish cemetery

The Kapshitter family did not have a chance on Oct. 7. That Saturday morning the four members of the family — the father, Evgeny (Zhenya), 37, the mother, Dina, 34, and their two small children, 8-year-old Aline and 5-year-old Eitan — were on their way back to their home in Be’er Sheva from a camping trip near Ashkelon, when they were ambushed by Hamas terrorists, who sprayed their car with bullets, killing them all. The horrors did not end there. Identification of the bodies took many days, and...

Shomrim - Iran's Cyber Onslaught: From Data Heist to Digital Warfare in Israel

On October 8th, as Israel only just began to wake up to the scope of the worst intelligence failure of its history, a previously unknown hacker group, “MalekTeam,” appeared online. “I am Malek. I have all of your personal information. Anyone who serves the Zionists is under my control,” they wrote in their first message on a popular messaging application. In the following weeks, the hackers who are believed to be tied to Iranian military intelligence, proceeded to publish tens of thousands of re...

Shomrim - Putin’s No Longer a Friend: Inside Russia’s Fake News Campaigns and Cyberattacks

For numerous years, the relations between Israel and Russia underwent fluctuations akin to a rollercoaster ride. However, in the past decade, it appeared that the historically tumultuous relationship had found stability, with the two nations cultivating warm and close ties. This perception was largely shaped by the consistent efforts of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who sought to present himself as a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Netanyahu made multiple visits to Moscow, h...

Israel and Russia: The End of a Friendship?

Israel is an important partner for Russia in the Middle East, but amid the war in Gaza and Moscow’s rapprochement with Hamas, ties between the two countries are at their lowest in recent history. These tensions mark a break in Moscow’s long-standing efforts to present itself as a neutral mediator in the Middle East. Russia is increasingly aligning itself with Iran and its allies, and accordingly risks only being able to influence the region from its margins. 

While Israel and the Soviet Union h...

Shomrim - How Israel Failed to Halt Hamas’ Cryptocurrency Fundraising

According to the most conservative estimates, since the terrorist organization Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in 2007 it has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for its military projects. Some of this money flowed through open channels, primarily the cash-filled suitcases that arrived from Qatar – with the knowledge and approval of the Israeli government. The money was earmarked for the “rehabilitation of Gaza,” but eventually ended up in Hamas’ coffers. There were also clandestine tran...
The Insider •

«Риторика «они все должны быть уничтожены» вгоняет меня в ужас». Как новые репатрианты из России помогают Израилю во время войны

Айтишник Антон, редактор Юлия, бывший сотрудник госкорпорации Сергей и погибший в перестрелке военный Эли, — всех их объединяет одно: они репатриировались в Израиль совсем недавно, в последней волне Алии. Некоторые уехали незадолго до вторжения России в Украину, а кто-то уже во время войны. В Израиле идет вторая неделя войны с ХАМАС, которая началась с массированных обстрелов и захвата территории страны, более 1400 человек погибли, множество людей взяты в заложники. Корреспондент The Insider в И...
The Moscow Times •

Belarus Ensnares Exiled Dissidents With Policies Forcing Their Return - The Moscow Times

“It was hard for me there, I wanted to come back all the time,” Alexander Pipkin, his eyes downcast, said in an interview on Belarusian state television at the end of August. 
In the interview, Pipkin is presented as a repenting doctor, formerly part of the Belarusian opposition in exile, who decided to return to his homeland after becoming disillusioned with life in the West. 
Such interviews have become a fixture on state television as Minsk now seeks to lure its citizens living in exile to re...
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