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Jailed Telegrass founder registers party for 2022 Knesset elections

This is the second attempt by Telegrass founders to register for the 2022 elections.

|ByARIK BENDER/MAARIV
Yesh Kivun party's poster
Hundreds of Israelis gather in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on April 20, 2021to protest in favor of cannabis legalization and for reforms in the medical cannabis market.

Israelis gather for 10th annual Big Bong Night cannabis protest

This year's protest was marked by the special emphasis on the benefits of medical cannabis products for people who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.

|ByIDAN ZONSHINE
Larissa Trembovler Amir, wife of Yitzhak Rabin's assassin Yigal Amir, registers her Fair Trial Party

Parties race as deadline for disqualifying lists looms

The head of the Central Elections Committee, Supreme Court judge Neal Hendel, already disqualified the second candidate on the Economic Dawn list, cannabis kingpin Amos Dov Silver.

|ByGIL HOFFMAN
The Telegram logo is seen on a screen of a smartphone in this picture illustration

Leaking nude photographs a growing phenomenon in Israel

Dozens of groups in Israel alone exist for the purpose of spreading such footage illegally.

|ByTAMAR URIEL-BEERI

Telegrass founder extradited to Israel after being arrested in Ukraine

Silver was supposed to be extradited to Israel at the end of March, but he succeed in escaping from his Ukrainian escort at the Kiev airport.

AUGUST 19, 2019
A marijuana leaf

Telegrass drug ring founder to be extradited from Ukraine flees

Founder of the drug sales network Amos Dov Silver's appeal against the extradition was denied by a Ukranian court on Thursday.

AUGUST 16, 2019
Employee tends to medical cannabis plants at Pharmocann, an Israeli medical cannabis company in northern Israel

27 alleged pot dealers indicted in Telegrass bust

The service was supposed to provide anonymity to dealers and buyers.

APRIL 19, 2019
A woman smokes during an event marking Israel's government's approval of a new policy to decriminalize personal marijuana use in Tel Aviv, Israel February 4, 2017

Police arrest leaders of massive Israeli drug distribution network

Telegrass, which is used through the encrypted messaging application Telegram, is estimated to have over 100,000 members and earn a monthly revenue of NIS 60 million.

MARCH 13, 2019
ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
An employee tends to a freshly-harvested medical cannabis plant at Pharmocann, an Israeli medical cannabis company in northern Israel January 24, 2019.