The professor who attacked the Haredi: Motti Ravid paid a quarter of a million shekels as a 'ransom''

March 10, 2021   

Prof. Motti Ravid, a senior physician and former director of Mayanei Hayeshua Hospital, paid an agreed fine of 250,000 shekels in order to end an investigation opened against him for concealing transactions between 2010 and 2014, when the tax resulting from them was akin to extortion. In Israel, speeding is the norm: Why do we drive fast? According to a report in Calcalist, this is what emerges from the decisions of the Tax Authority's ransom committee for 2018. Ransom is one of the ways to end investigation cases on suspicion of tax violations as an alternative to criminal proceedings, and for this purpose the Authority has ransom committees. The amount of the ransom imposed is in addition to the tax payment requirement, which is paid as part of the civil proceedings. Prof. Ravid submitted his resignation from the management of the Mayanei Hayeshua Hospital at the end of the month of Tishrei this year, following his harsh attack on the Haredim during the Corona period. Ravid said at the time, among other things: "A whole audience that is unleashing a yoke and killing people.".