Israeli police said on Wednesday they recommended indicting outgoing Justice Minister Tzachi Hanegbi on bribery and fraud charges. Hanegbi is accused of misusing funds as head of a nonprofit organization he formed when he was a member of Parliament in the mid-1990s.
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