Israeli Mafia - Organized Crime in Israel

Organized Crime in Israel

The major crime groups are the Abergils, the Abutbuls, the Alperons, the Dumranis, the Shirazis, the Amir Molnar and Zeev Rosenstein syndicates. The illegal activities they are engaged in include:

• Operating casinos and other forms of gambling inside and outside Israel
• Prostitution and trafficking in women
• Money Laundering
• Protection and extortion rackets
• Loan sharking
• Drugs and arms dealing
• Fencing stolen goods
• Diamond smuggling

According to Israel’s former Police Commissioner David Cohen, Israeli crime organizations had penetrated the formal economic sector and local governments, and “equipped themselves with large quantities of combat means explosives and arms.” In a mob war starting in the early 2000s between the crime families, several crime bosses were killed. It also cost the life of innocent bystanders.