Supermarket magnate and Israeli icon Rami Levy, owner of the nation’s third largest supermarket chain, was arrested Sunday morning on fraud and breach of trust charges related to allegedly bribing a municipal official to evade paying NIS 21 million in taxes at a mall he recently constructed.Four other unidentified suspects, ...

Israel's top prosecutor has said he is considering charging the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with fraud.The attorney general said he would make a final decision pending a pre-trial hearing for Sara Netanyahu.Mrs Netanyahu is suspected of misusing 359,000 shekels ($100,000; £77,000) of state funds for catering purposes, ...

23 May 2017Your Excellency Mr. Antonio Guterres,Secretary General of the United NationsThe Palestinian Civil Society Coalitions and Networks call your attention to Israel’s continued violations of the rights of over 6000 Palestinian political prisoners, who have long been denied their basic rights, and are currently undergoing a hunger strike. After ...

Serious questions are being asked about the huge Palestinian security budget. Local transparency organizations, the US State Department and Congress are not convinced that the Palestinian government needs to spend so much of its budget on security.On Nov. 9, the Ramallah-based Coalition for Accountability and Integrity (AMAN) issued a detailed ...

We, the anti-corruption organisations and activists participating in the fifth ministerial conference of the Arab anti-Corruption and Integrity Network (ACINET) held in Tunisia, are deeply concerned by the restriction on freedom of travel and movement for Sharaf Almosawi, one of the network’s members and the Chair of the Bahrain Transparency ...

Youth comprise one third of Palestinian SocietyIn mid-2016 the total population of Palestine is estimated at 4.82 million. Youth represent 30% of this total: 37% are adolescents aged (15-19) years and 63% are young adults aged (20-29) years.  While the sex ratio among youth is at 104.1 males to 100 ...

          Application Closing Date - 30 May 2016Job Start Date - June 2016Duration - 20 daysLocation - MENA region, BerlinThe Transparency International Secretariat (TI-S) in Berlin is seeking to commission an external consultant to undertake the final project evaluation of the project “Regional based approach to National Integrity System (NIS) Assessments ...

Palestinian civil society organisations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), including The Palestinian Non-Governmental Organization Network (PNGO), the Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Council (PHROC), the Independent Commission for Human Rights, the Coalition for Accountability and Integrity (AMAN), and the Women's Affairs Technical Committee, met on Sunday 20 March 2016. During ...

Transparency International launched the sanctioning phase of its Unmask the Corrupt campaign in which the anti-corruption group asked the public to identify the world’s most symbolic cases of grand corruption.The voting, the website and related social media engaged over 170,000 people spreading the word on grand corruption in a powerful ...

Arab chapters of Transparency International closely observed the works of the Fourth Arab Forum on Asset Recovery which is held in the city of Hammamet, in the Republic of Tunisia on December 8-10, 2015.While TI chapters and partners reiterate their appreciation for holding AFAR4 to follow up on the achievements ...

The Supreme Court accepted the appeal lodged against the appointment by President Mahmoud Abbas of President’s advisor Ali Muhanna as head of the Supreme Judicial Council without the recommendation of the Supreme Judicial Council.By accepting the appeal, the Supreme Court has ruled that the President's decision to appoint Muhanna as ...