An Israeli chief rabbi could be prosecuted for breach of trust. Police investigators, after wrapping up a probe of allegations that Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger received illicit perks from a Jerusalem hotel last year, recommended Sunday that he be indicted.
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