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Illustrative: A Boeing 787 aircraft seen during final assembly production in Charleston, South Carolina, August 4, 2022. (BOEING / AFP)
April 22, 2025, 9:01 pm
Israeli startup sues ex-CEO for fraud, and allegedly forging contracts using ChatGPT
Promai accuses Erez Ben-Eshay of fabricating fake contracts with giants like Boeing and Tesla, posing as a pilot and romancing the founder to defraud the company
By Sharon Wrobel
A fake identity card printed by an IDF reserve officer for a Palestinian, published by the police on July 22, 2024. (Israel Police)
July 22, 2024, 3:55 pm
Reserve army officer arrested for faking ID cards for 6 Palestinians
Suspect allegedly printed papers identifying West Bank residents as having military credentials, enabling them to stay in Israel for years
By ToI Staff
Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun with their dogs at the Berghof vacation house. (Bundesarchiv Bild/Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA)
April 25, 2023, 12:54 pm
Fake Hitler diaries from 1980s scam to be displayed at German national archives
Forgery sparked fury when published as authentic by Stern Magazine, UK’s Sunday Times, before truth came out; publishing house commissions new probe into how fiasco came about
By Michael Horovitz
License plates found by police in the apartment of Shay Karamosta, the self-declared king of Yashar-El, Hadera, northern Israel, February 6, 2023. (Israel Police)
February 6, 2023, 3:08 pm
Man suspected of forging license plates, passports for imaginary kingdom
Shay Karamosta founded ‘Yashar-El’ after declaring ‘dissolution of the corporate government of Israel,’ established ‘consulate’ in his Hadera apartment
By Michael Horovitz
Silver cuts from ingots used for trade prior to currency minting. (Clara Amit/Israel Antiquities Authority)
November 22, 2020, 9:11 pm
Ancient forgers? Israeli researchers ID ‘dirty currency’ from 3,000 years ago
Joint Hebrew University and Haifa University research finds materials such as arsenic added to mainly copper primitive ‘cash,’ apparently to make it look like silver
By ToI Staff
Susannah Doyle as Johanna, Guy Pearce as Han Van Meegeren, Olivia Grant as Cootje Henning in 'The Last Vermeer.' (Courtesy TriStar Pictures)
November 19, 2020, 2:51 pm
Guy Pearce steals show as art forger who fooled Goering in ‘The Last Vermeer’
Out Friday in limited US theaters, the (mostly) true legal thriller about one of history’s most talented charlatans illuminates lingering toxic anti-Semitism in post-WWII Amsterdam
By Jordan Hoffman
Inside the Sorek A Desalination Plant, November 2015. (Yossi Zamir/FLASH90)
September 3, 2019, 2:16 pm
Two desalination plants faked water quality data to cut costs
Energy Ministry inquiry reveals that Sorek plant manipulated chloride amounts before daily samples were taken; workers at Palmachim facility doctored lab reports
By Sue Surkes
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and Dr. Ido Netanyahu, left, receive the personal effects of their brother Yoni in Jerusalem on April 15, 2019. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
April 17, 2019, 8:07 pm
Netanyahu receives late brother’s haggadah, but report indicates it may be fake
Prime minister given personal items that belonged to Yoni Netanyahu from army buddy, but some items may never have belonged to famed Entebbe raid leader
By ToI Staff and JTA
Three watercolor landscapes, allegedly painted by a young Adolf Hitler, are displayed at an auction house in Berlin, Germany, January 24, 2019. (Gregor Fischer/dpa via AP)
February 10, 2019, 4:24 pm
Five paintings attributed to Hitler go unsold at German auction
No bids received for watercolors amid concerns of forgery
By AP
Boaz Harpaz arrives for a court hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on March 15, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 18, 2018, 12:14 pm
Ex-officer convicted in 2010 IDF scandal, won’t go to jail
Boaz Harpaz confesses to leaking fake document in plot to influence appointment of army chief, will get 220 hours community service in plea deal
By ToI Staff
A Dead Sea Scrolls fragment from the book of Micah, part of Museum of the Bible's Scholars Initiative research project published by Brill in 2016. (Image by Bruce and Kenneth Zuckerman and Marilyn J. Lundberg, West Semitic Research, courtesy of Museum of the Bible)
October 23, 2018, 3:48 pm
Five proven Dead Sea Scroll forgeries only the tip of the iceberg, scholars say
The Museum of the Bible’s announcement it will pull fragments from display is to be lauded, but is only a first step as accusations fly over dozens of others in global collections
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Alice Cohn poses in front of the building in which she hid from the Nazis, in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The photo was taken after the liberation of Europe in 1945. (Courtesy: National Holocaust Museum)
January 3, 2018, 5:02 am
How artist beat ‘foolproof’ Nazi system to forge Dutch ID papers, save 350 lives
Resistance work of Alice Cohn, expertly faking documents while in hiding, detailed in exhibit at National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam
By Matt Lebovic
The signature 'A. Hitler' is on a picture titled 'The Old City Hall' that was painted by Adolf Hitler in Nuremberg, Germany, November 19, 2014. (AP/Michael Probst/File)
December 27, 2017, 10:46 pm
Dutch experts doubt authenticity of painting signed by ‘Hitler’
Two researchers say watercolor attributed to Nazi dictator likely the work of a forger
By AFP
Illustrative image of a police car (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 30, 2017, 4:15 pm
Palestinian woman arrested for impersonating Israeli to get job in hospital
Suspect from West Bank worked for over a month in cleaning position at a Jerusalem medical center before being discovered
By ToI Staff
A Dead Sea Scrolls fragment from the book of Genesis, part of Museum of the Bible's Scholars Initiative research project published by Brill in 2016. Of the museum's 13 published scrolls, at least six are of dubious authenticity. (Image by Bruce and Kenneth Zuckerman and Marilyn J. Lundberg, West Semitic Research, courtesy of Museum of the Bible)
October 3, 2017, 6:21 pm
Dead Sea Scrolls scam: Dozens of recently sold fragments are fakes, experts warn
Since 2002, collectors have paid millions for portions of ancient text. As DC’s Museum of the Bible prepares to open with several such pieces, evidence of fraud emerges
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
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