Mafia

Italy's mafia abandoning rivalries to join forces, report says

Italy's mafia has heightened technological expertise, using encrypted communication channels and maintaining contacts with prison inmates through drones.

 Carabinieri members stand guard outside 'La Maddalena' hospital, where Italy's most wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested, in Palermo, Italy, January 16, 2023
Evidence confiscated by Israel Police as part of the 'Black Billion' raid, February 8, 2023

Police arrest 38 members of Abu Latif crime family that terrorized the North for 20 years

 Palermo, Italy. New evidence surfaces in high-profile Mafia hit case.

45 years after the assassination: New evidence surfaces in Palermo Mafia hit case

Italian police officers [File]

Operation 'Steal Oil': Italian mafia stole 800,000 liters of fuel from NATO pipeline


WATCH: Huge 'Black Billion' probe takes down top Israeli mobsters in North

Some 700 police officers, Border Police officers and special forces units all took part in the Wednesday morning raid.

Evidence confiscated by Israel Police as part of the 'Black Billion' raid, February 8, 2023

Meet the former mobster who helped hunt Nazis

Former mobster Myron Sugerman talks about fighting antisemitism and helping Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal in a new documentary.

 MYRON SUGERMAN at his Newark home.

‘Married to the Mob,’ but under a chuppah: A new memoir details a Jewish family’s crime ties

Meet the family whose close ties to Jewish gangsters are chronicled. It's an offer you can't refuse.

 Meyer Lansky, bottom right, lent his services to Jewish leaders looking to counter the American Nazi movement.

Grapevine January 5, 2022: Corruption unmasked – but ignored

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 FOREIGN MINISTRY employees protest against their working conditions.

Is there a cure for the Arab sector's crime crisis?

MIDDLE ISRAEL: The crime crisis in the Arab sector has become a national scourge, and there is a way to beat it.

 ISRAELI-ARABS BLOCK a road in Tel Aviv during a protest last month against violence, organized crime and recent killings in their communities.

Mafia boss Shumi Isakov, son, killed in shooting in Israel's North

Isakov had survived a previous attempt on his life in 2004, when unidentified assailants opened fire on him, his younger brother and another individual.

 SCENE OF THE SHOOTING OF MAFIA BOSS SHUMI IZAKOV IN KIRYAT MOTZKIN

In ‘Lansky,’ Harvey Keitel puts the gangster’s Jewishness front and center

Lansky, born in Russia in 1902, arrived in New York in 1911. Known as the “Mob’s Accountant,” he was notorious in his own right, operating criminal rackets from Miami to Las Vegas to Cuba.

Meyer Lansky in 1958

Jake Tapper’s ‘The Devil May Dance’ partners Hollywood, Mafia and politics

Set in the early 1960s, it sends the Marders on an undercover mission that sounds groovy and glamorous: Hang out with Frank Sinatra and his famous Rat Pack in Los Angeles to find out just how tight the singer’s ties to the Mafia are.

CNN’S JAKE TAPPER with president Barack Obama at a town hall meeting in Fort Lee, Virginia, 2016.

Tattooed Italian mobster nabbed in Caribbean thanks to his cooking videos

Biart made a fatal mistake. He and his wife posted on YouTube several videos of Biart cooking Italian dishes. Although they were careful not to show his face, police recognized him from the tattoos.

Illustrative Photo: Ahmed Hergal, founder of Italian restaurant L'antica Pizzeria DaPietro, adds ingredients to his 999 DT (360 USD) pizza, covered with luxury foods and edible gold leaf, in Tunis, Tunisia, March 6, 2021.

Netanyahu meets with Arab-Israeli authorities to discuss lowering crime

"I want special forces, task forces," Netanyahu suggested, after indicating that the crime wave would likely spread to Jewish localities soon.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a Clalit healthcare center in the Arab town Tira.

25 years after 'Casino': a primer on some of Hollywood's Jewish gangsters

The film's protagonist is based on Frank Rosenthal, a real Jewish gambling expert from Chicago who had ties to the Chicago Outfit and eventually headed to Vegas to run casinos for them.

Robert De Niro as Ace Rothstein in a scene from the 1995 film "Casino."