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    רפי רותם - להיאבק בשחיתות הממסדית // Rafi Rotem - Israel Tax Authority Whistleblower
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    Israeli Tax Authority whistleblower Rafi Rotem exposed organized crime in government: Huge tax breaks to tycoons and crime figure related businesses, sex bribes, and murder of a "source". Rotem has been subjected to harassment, intimidation, and retaliation over the past 12 years. He lost his job, his home, his possessions. The corruption exposed by Rafi Rotem was described by former Attorney General Manny Mezouz as the closest to organized crime in government. The case is described by senior journalist Amnon Dankner as the worst case of miscarriage of justice he has seen in his long career as a journalist, where all institutions of the justice system gang up on an honest person to trample him and destroy him. Recently, his case has become a cause of the Israeli Protest movement and journalists, as a key case in fighting government corruption. On April 29, 2014 letter from the Israeli State Ombudsman's office, for the first time after 12 years, his office agreed to take Rafi Rotem's evidence and testimony, and started process to restore his financial rights as a wrongfully terminated State employee. The case shows that concerted efforts of journalists and the Israeli Social Protest movement can stand up to a State, where the justice system went astray. The attached article by senior Israeli journalist Calman Liebeskind reviews the Rafi Rotem case at the end of decade since its eruption, and concludes that there are no Justices in Jerusalem... ===No Justices in Jerusalem_Maariv (Introductory paragraph only)=== Calman Liebskind It has been a decade that the courts have been abusing a justice fighter. There are no Justices in Jerusalem: Ten years of the Tax Authority whistleblower Rafi Rotem scandal. Back to the case and the judgment that left him penniless. On Tuesday morning Rafi Rotem, once the decorated Intelligence Officer of the Tax Authority Investigations Division, showed up in the courtroom of Judge Yael Predlasky in the Tel Aviv Magistrate Court, for his arraignment. It has been now over ten years since he first blew the whistle, and shone the light on corruption and relationships between senior officers in the Investigations Division, where he had served, with criminals and investigations targets. Ten years of total war waged against him by the system, in order to shut him up in every possible way. Rotem, who even today, penniless and homeless, is not willing to stop blaming anybody, who could have stopped what is going on in the Tax Authority and fails to do so, is charged with threats, telephone harassment, and insulting of the same public officers. Almost nine years have passed, since his story was first exposed here. Nine years, during which he vowed to fight the corruption in the Tax Authority, but faced a stonewall. The Tel Aviv Police, against some of its top officers he had previously complained, has detained him time after time with no reason, but was forced to release him under court orders. The State Prosecution, with whom he wrestled in the courts, have tried to frame him with violence, unsuccessfully. It is doubtful that there has been a case of a whistleblower, who dared to stand up to the system like this, take the fire without ducking, but the price is heavy. This week, we chose to return to the judgment of the Tel Aviv Labor Court, the judgment that started it all. Court file Labor 5883/05, the paper that buried five floors underground, and which anybody, who wants to attack Rotem likes to cite. It is the paper that permitted the Tax Authority to dismiss its decorated Intelligence Officer after 20 years of service with no retirement and no compensation. Five days after Rotem first blew the whistle regarding about what was going on in his unit, the first complaint against him was turned in by the Custome Security Officer. A week and a half later he was called for investigation by the Israel Police, after the Investigations Division Director all of sudden recalled, on the ver

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    Israeli Tax Authority whistleblower Rafi Rotem exposed organized crime in government: Huge tax breaks to tycoons and crime figure related businesses, sex bribes, and murder of a "source". Rotem has been subjected to harassment, intimidation, and retaliation over the past 12 years. He lost his job, his home, his possessions. The corruption exposed by Rafi Rotem was described by former Attorney General Manny Mezouz as the closest to organized crime in government. The case is described by senior journalist Amnon Dankner as the worst case of miscarriage of justice he has seen in his long career as a journalist, where all institutions of the justice system gang up on an honest person to trample him and destroy him. Recently, his case has become a cause of the Israeli Protest movement and journalists, as a key case in fighting government corruption. On April 29, 2014 letter from the Israeli State Ombudsman's office, for the first time after 12 years, his office agreed to take Rafi Rotem's evidence and testimony, and started process to restore his financial rights as a wrongfully terminated State employee. The case shows that concerted efforts of journalists and the Israeli Social Protest movement can stand up to a State, where the justice system went astray. The attached article by senior Israeli journalist Calman Liebeskind reviews the Rafi Rotem case at the end of decade since its eruption, and concludes that there are no Justices in Jerusalem... ===No Justices in Jerusalem_Maariv (Introductory paragraph only)=== Calman Liebskind It has been a decade that the courts have been abusing a justice fighter. There are no Justices in Jerusalem: Ten years of the Tax Authority whistleblower Rafi Rotem scandal. Back to the case and the judgment that left him penniless. On Tuesday morning Rafi Rotem, once the decorated Intelligence Officer of the Tax Authority Investigations Division, showed up in the courtroom of Judge Yael Predlasky in the Tel Aviv Magistrate Court, for his arraignment. It has been now over ten years since he first blew the whistle, and shone the light on corruption and relationships between senior officers in the Investigations Division, where he had served, with criminals and investigations targets. Ten years of total war waged against him by the system, in order to shut him up in every possible way. Rotem, who even today, penniless and homeless, is not willing to stop blaming anybody, who could have stopped what is going on in the Tax Authority and fails to do so, is charged with threats, telephone harassment, and insulting of the same public officers. Almost nine years have passed, since his story was first exposed here. Nine years, during which he vowed to fight the corruption in the Tax Authority, but faced a stonewall. The Tel Aviv Police, against some of its top officers he had previously complained, has detained him time after time with no reason, but was forced to release him under court orders. The State Prosecution, with whom he wrestled in the courts, have tried to frame him with violence, unsuccessfully. It is doubtful that there has been a case of a whistleblower, who dared to stand up to the system like this, take the fire without ducking, but the price is heavy. This week, we chose to return to the judgment of the Tel Aviv Labor Court, the judgment that started it all. Court file Labor 5883/05, the paper that buried five floors underground, and which anybody, who wants to attack Rotem likes to cite. It is the paper that permitted the Tax Authority to dismiss its decorated Intelligence Officer after 20 years of service with no retirement and no compensation. Five days after Rotem first blew the whistle regarding about what was going on in his unit, the first complaint against him was turned in by the Custome Security Officer. A week and a half later he was called for investigation by the Israel Police, after the Investigations Division Director all of sudden recalled, on the ver

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    2013-10-04 כבר עשור שבתי המשפט מתעמרים בלוחם הצדק - אין שופטים בירושלים - מעריב // No judges in Jerusalem - Maariv

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    Israeli Tax Authority whistleblower Rafi Rotem exposed organized crime in government: Huge tax breaks to tycoons and crime figure related businesses, sex bribes, and murder of a "source". Rotem has been subjected to harassment, intimidation, and retaliation over the past 12 years. He lost his job, his home, his possessions. The corruption exposed by Rafi Rotem was described by former Attorney General Manny Mezouz as the closest to organized crime in government. The case is described by senior journalist Amnon Dankner as the worst case of miscarriage of justice he has seen in his long career as a journalist, where all institutions of the justice system gang up on an honest person to trample him and destroy him. Recently, his case has become a cause of the Israeli Protest movement and journalists, as a key case in fighting government corruption. On April 29, 2014 letter from the Israeli State Ombudsman's office, for the first time after 12 years, his office agreed to take Rafi Rotem's evidence and testimony, and started process to restore his financial rights as a wrongfully terminated State employee. The case shows that concerted efforts of journalists and the Israeli Social Protest movement can stand up to a State, where the justice system went astray. The attached article by senior Israeli journalist Calman Liebeskind reviews the Rafi Rotem case at the end of decade since its eruption, and concludes that there are no Justices in Jerusalem... ===No Justices in Jerusalem_Maariv (Introductory paragraph only)=== Calman Liebskind It has been a decade that the courts have been abusing a justice fighter. There are no Justices in Jerusalem: Ten years of the Tax Authority whistleblower Rafi Rotem scandal. Back to the case and the judgment that left him penniless. On Tuesday morning Rafi Rotem, once the decorated Intelligence Officer of the Tax Authority Investigations Division, showed up in the courtroom of Judge Yael Predlasky in the Tel Aviv Magistrate Court, for his arraignment. It has been now over ten years since he first blew the whistle, and shone the light on corruption and relationships between senior officers in the Investigations Division, where he had served, with criminals and investigations targets. Ten years of total war waged against him by the system, in order to shut him up in every possible way. Rotem, who even today, penniless and homeless, is not willing to stop blaming anybody, who could have stopped what is going on in the Tax Authority and fails to do so, is charged with threats, telephone harassment, and insulting of the same public officers. Almost nine years have passed, since his story was first exposed here. Nine years, during which he vowed to fight the corruption in the Tax Authority, but faced a stonewall. The Tel Aviv Police, against some of its top officers he had previously complained, has detained him time after time with no reason, but was forced to release him under court orders. The State Prosecution, with whom he wrestled in the courts, have tried to frame him with violence, unsuccessfully. It is doubtful that there has been a case of a whistleblower, who dared to stand up to the system like this, take the fire without ducking, but the price is heavy. This week, we chose to return to the judgment of the Tel Aviv Labor Court, the judgment that started it all. Court file Labor 5883/05, the paper that buried five floors underground, and which anybody, who wants to attack Rotem likes to cite. It is the paper that permitted the Tax Authority to dismiss its decorated Intelligence Officer after 20 years of service with no retirement and no compensation. Five days after Rotem first blew the whistle regarding about what was going on in his unit, the first complaint against him was turned in by the Custome Security Officer. A week and a half later he was called for investigation by the Israel Police, after the Investigations Division Director all of sudden recalled, on the ver

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