Former Israeli chief rabbi gets 4.5 years in prison for graft

‘An Israeli court has rejected a plea bargain with former chief rabbi Yona Metzger, handing down a harsher sentence of four-and-a-half years in prison on an array of charges ranging from fraud and money laundering to bribery.
On Thursday, Jerusalem District Court Judge Moshe Yo’ad Hacohen dismissed the prosecution’s plea deal under which 63-year-old Metzger was expected to serve three-and-a-half years in prison, and added a year to the sentence.
The judge told the former chief rabbi that if the plea deal had not been signed with the prosecution, he would have sentenced him to seven years in prison.’
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