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A Shufersal delivery truck burns following a suspected assassination attempt in Netanya, January 2, 2024. (Screen capture: X; used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 2, 2024, 11:33 am
Man seriously injured by car bomb in 3rd suspected Netanya hit attempt in one week
For second time in less than 24 hours, vehicle explodes in central coastal town known for its underworld presence; gang leader killed in similar incident last week
By ToI Staff
Alan Geik's family's close ties to Jewish gangsters are chronicled in a just-published memoir, 'Uncle Charlie Killed Dutch Schultz.' (Sonador Publishing via JTA)
January 10, 2023, 5:09 pm
Kosher nostra: New memoir details a New York Jewish family’s crime ties
In ‘Uncle Charlie Killed Dutch Schultz,’ author Alan Geik tells about ‘heimishe’ first-generation US Jews bootlegging, running gambling rackets and committing the occasional murder
By Jon Kalish
Myron Sugerman reminisces in his Newark, New Jersey, home in this still from 'Last Man Standing.' (Courtesy)
January 6, 2023, 11:20 pm
Unrepentant old school NJ Jewish mobster sings like a canary in Amazon documentary
At 84, second-generation gangster Myron Sugerman was king of illegal slots and helped fund Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. Now he tells all in the 2022 film ‘Last Man Standing’
By Nadine Matyas
Detail from 'I'm Still Alive,' by Roberto Saviano, illustrated by Asaf Haunka. (Courtesy Boom! Studios)
November 12, 2022, 2:39 am
Hunted by the mafia, Italian author teams up with Israeli artist in graphic memoir
In new cooperative work ‘I’m Still Alive,’ Roberto Saviano and Israeli Asaf Hanuka depict the author’s life on the run since famously exposing the Camorra crime syndicate
By Giovanni Vigna
A formally sunken boat sits on cracked earth hundreds of feet from what is now the shoreline on Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, May 9, 2022, near Boulder City, Nevada (AP Photo/John Locher)
May 10, 2022, 9:53 am
Vegas mob history resurfaces: Plunging lake exposes human remains
Two bodies emerge within a week in drought-stricken reservoir, with ex-mayor saying former mafia clients now keen on ‘climate control’: ‘It’s not a bad place to dump a body’
By Ken Ritter
Michael Transky (R) appears at the Ashkelon Magistrate's Court on September 20, 2021. (Screen capture/YouTube)
September 20, 2021, 10:48 pm
Head of ‘Russian mafia’ in Israel arrested thanks to criminal-turned informant
Police say Michael Tansky, who was nabbed along with 16 others, sought to take control of southern towns of Ashdod, Ashkelon through violent extortion of business owners, residents
By ToI Staff
A 1928 mugshot of Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel, a Jewish American mobster, with significant influence within the Mafia and National Crime Syndicate. (Courtesy Yale University Press)
April 21, 2021, 4:33 am
How Jewish mobster Bugsy Siegel’s gamble on Vegas paid off after his murder
The movie star-handsome member of the infamous Murder, Inc. envisioned a gambling oasis in the desert, says a new book in Yale’s Jewish Lives series
By Rich Tenorio
HBO's McMillions (Courtesy)
August 4, 2020, 3:06 am
HBO doc on Hamburglar who stole millions in McDonald’s prizes gets 5 Emmy nods
‘A true-crime story that everyone’s involved in’: Series unpicks the absurd saga of a wildly popular decade-long Monopoly sweepstakes that almost no American legitimately won
By Jordan Hoffman
The scene of an explosion on Route 6 on January 5, 2020 (Magen David Adom)
January 5, 2020, 12:45 pm
Man killed, 2 hurt, in suspected car bombing on central highway
Police investigating blast on Route 6 that was reportedly a criminally motivated underworld hit
By ToI Staff
Joe Pesci, left, and Robert De Niro star in Martin Scorsese's 'The Irishman.' (Netflix via JTA)
November 28, 2019, 8:28 am
Are the Jewish mobsters referenced in ‘The Irishman’ real?
Though the events depicted in Scorsese’s organized crime epic are near impossible to verify, Jews certainly played a role in shaping mob history in the US
By Emily Burack
Ofer Maximov attends a a hearing at the Supreme Court on November 9, 2004. (Flash90)
November 6, 2019, 6:49 pm
Man behind massive bank-collapsing fraud granted parole after 17 years
Ofer Maximov to be set free a year early, barring appeal; was convicted over role in NIS 250 million embezzlement scheme with sister Etti Alon
By ToI Staff
A view of the town of Lakiya on Tuesday, April 1, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)
August 1, 2019, 6:02 am
Parents killed in front of child in drive-by shooting in southern Israel
Couple gunned down near entrance of Bedouin town as part of suspected clan dispute; motorcyclist shot to death in Herzliya in possible gangland hit
By ToI Staff
Pope Francis kisses a child as he arrives with the popemobile in St.Peter's Square to held his weekly general audience at the Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
October 11, 2018, 4:08 am
Pope compares abortion to hiring a hit man
Francis makes comments during a weekly audience dedicated to the commandment exhorting the faithful not to kill
By Nicole Winfield
Paul Alster
February 16, 2018, 3:21 pm
Paul Alster
Is Netanyahu counting on mafia-style omerta?
In any democracy worthy of the name, the rule of law must be the first and only consideration
Boris Nayfeld poses for a picture at the Russian Baths in the Brooklyn borough of New York, January 18, 2018. (AP/Seth Wenig)
January 28, 2018, 5:03 am
Out of prison, notorious Russian mobster yearns to return home
Boris Nayfeld, who came to New York with other Jewish emigres, is at the end of a storied career of crime, and now worries about future prospects in the US
By JAKE PEARSON
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