Italy took umbrage after an Israeli watchdog warned that his country was going the way of Sicily. Vardi Zeiler, a retired Israeli judge investigating police corruption, said in a newspaper interview last week that the Jewish state risks becoming like Sicily, “an entire region where there’s this phenomenon of crime taking over government.”
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