Israel was shocked this weekend over the arrest of Yehuda Spiegel, deputy director general of the Ministry of Health, prominent member of the National Religious party and president of the Hungarian Immigrants Association in Israel, who was officially charged with receiving a bribe of 40,000 pounds ($13,000).
Mr. Spiegel is in charge of planning for millions of pounds worth of hospital construction. Various building firms were said to have been involved in the bribe. Charged along with Mr. Spiegel were a lawyer and three building contractors. Additional persons are said to be involved in the case.
It is believed that Spiegel did not use the money for his own benefit, but asked for the money on behalf of a committee which he headed to raise funds for the construction of a yeshiva to be named after the late Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon.
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