The head of an Israeli Kabbalah center was arrested for allegedly extracting money from a dying woman. Shaul Youdkevitch was arrested Sunday on suspicion of convincing a cancer patient that donating tens of thousands of dollars to his Tel Aviv Kabbalah center would aid in her recovery, Yediot Achronot’s Ynet Web site reported. The woman since has died.
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