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Peter Giunta, former leader of the New York State Young Republicans, gives a TV interview in September 2025. (Screenshot)
October 16, 2025, 7:15 pm
‘To the gas chamber’: Young Republicans members exposed for antisemitic, racist chat
Publication of messages has led some to be fired or job offers pulled, although Vice President JD Vance dismisses controversy, saying people should ‘focus on the real issues’
By Luke Tress and ToI Staff
Sara Netanyahu attends a prayer for the return of Israeli hostages held in Gaza by the Hamas terror group , at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, March 21, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
December 24, 2024, 12:30 am
Sara Netanyahu sues networks for defamation over reports she leaked security secrets
Fallout continues after report that PM’s wife sought to intimidate his political opponents, trial witnesses; police commissioner admits lengthy friendship with late Netanyahu aide
By Jeremy Sharon, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Iran is upping its cyberwarfare tactics, and is likely to only increase them further regardless of a potential Israel-Hamas ceasefire. (iStock photo/ mirsad sarajlic)
October 16, 2024, 2:06 pm
Israeli arrested for plot to kill local scientist in exchange for $100K from Iran
Vladimir Verhovsky, 35, suspected of communicating via Telegram with Iranian agents, carrying out tasks including graffiti, hanging flyers, intelligence gathering on Israeli official
By ToI Staff
Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov, pictured in 2016, was recently arrested in France. (Manuel Blondeau/AOP.Press/Corbis)
September 16, 2024, 7:14 pm
What you need to know about Telegram, the app Hamas uses to spread its message
The messaging platform recently blocked some Hamas channels after its Russian-born founder was detained in an arrest by French authorities seeking to clamp down on illicit content
By Josh Axelrod
Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov appears at an event on August 1, 2017 in Jakarta, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana, File)
August 29, 2024, 6:20 am
French authorities charge Telegram’s Durov in probe into organized crime on app
Judge finds there are grounds to formally investigate Durov on charges including suspected complicity in running an online platform that allows illicit transactions, child abuse
By Gabriel Stargardter and Tassilo Hummel
FILE - Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov, seen after his meeting with Indonesian Communication and Information Minister Rudiantara in Jakarta, Indonesia, August 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana, File)
August 26, 2024, 3:17 pm
France detains Telegram chief accused of failing to curb use of app for crime, terror
Russian-born founder also suspected of not preventing drug trafficking, cyberbullying, organized crime on platform; Moscow says Paris ‘refusing to cooperate’ over detention
By Sylvie MALIGORNE, Julia Pavesi, Jurgen HECKER and Stuart Williams
An image released by the Shin Bet amid an investigation into three Israelis accused of acting under the supervision of Iran, released July 16, 2024 (Shin Bet)
August 19, 2024, 3:18 pm
Israeli man indicted for carrying out tasks for Iranian agent
Eden Dabas is accused of hanging anti-Israel signs in public, sending Iranian agent proof he put them up, then taking them down
By ToI Staff
Rioters at the airport in Makhachkala, Dagestan, October 30, 2023, shout antisemitic slogans as they protest the arrival of an airliner coming from Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP)
October 29, 2023, 11:55 pm
Rioters storm airport in Russia’s Dagestan in hunt for Jews aboard flight from Israel
Mob breaks into terminal and onto tarmac, responding to call to ‘avenge Gaza’; airport eventually cleared, 60 arrested; PM urges Moscow to ‘protect all Israeli citizens, all Jews’
By Canaan Lidor
President Isaac Herzog hosts a Sukkot event for the public at his official residence in Jerusalem, October 3, 2023. (Chaim Goldbergl/Flash90)
October 5, 2023, 5:08 pm
Herzog says his Telegram account hacked by scammers
President’s office says no data stolen in breach, attributed to criminal enterprise rather than foreign adversary; hack ‘being dealt with’ by Shin Bet
By ToI Staff
The icon for the instant messaging Telegram app is seen on a smartphone, Feb. 28, 2023, in Marple Township, Pennsylvania (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)
April 29, 2023, 8:48 am
Brazil suspends Telegram after app refuses to give data for antisemitic group probe
Court also fines messaging app for failing to assist investigation into neo-Nazi activity on social networks related to violence in schools
By AFP
An Israeli passport on January 18, 2023. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
April 20, 2023, 12:00 am
Population Authority to open new office in bid to ease passport appointment shortage
Interior Ministry body hopes to provide hundreds more meetings a day to solve issue, as networks of hackers and bots scoop up time slots, sell them for steep prices online
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Israeli passports in Jerusalem, January 18, 2023. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
April 16, 2023, 6:32 pm
Unable to renew passports, many Israelis resort to paying scalpers for appointments
With backlog of a million pending renewals following pandemic, some pay hundreds of dollars as system is overwhelmed by hackers
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
Illustrative -- Pharmacists supply patients with prescribed medical marijuana in Tel Aviv, on April 10, 2016 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 5, 2022, 1:31 pm
Police bust network of doctors allegedly selling medical marijuana permits
Authorities say senior medics and brokers provided online service netting thousands of shekels apiece; say drug dealers exploited network to purchase supplies
By Michael Horovitz
Antisemites hang a banner over a Los Angeles freeway declaring 'Kanye is right about the Jews' next to another advertising the Goyim Defense League's Goyim TV website. (Oren Segal, via Twitter/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 3, 2022, 5:58 pm
US Jews battle ‘mainstreaming’ and normalization of antisemitism
After Kanye West voices ‘love’ for Nazis and ex-president Trump dines with white supremacist, Biden says ‘silence is complicity’
By Paul Handley
Idan Mikhailov, convicted of distributing sexual images and videos of more than 130 women, including 30 minors, on paid Telegram channels he managed, arrives for a court hearing at the Beersheba Magistrate's Court, September 7, 2022. (Flash90)
September 7, 2022, 2:41 pm
In precedent, man gets 5 years for trading in intimate photos of 130 women, girls
Idan Mikhailov, 22, handed Israel’s highest sentence for such a crime; he operated paid Telegram channels, published identities and contact details of victims, including 30 minors
By Michael Bachner
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