Ashkelon Mayor Tomer Glam was named on Wednesday as the mayor who is suspected by police of pocketing wartime donations for himself and his associates.

Police announced on Monday that the mayor of a major city in Israel’s south was detained alongside local officials and businessmen suspected of involvement in the alleged corruption. He was later released to house arrest.

Glam was ordered by the court to stay away from the Ashkelon Municipality building for at least a week.

According to police, millions of shekels donated to the municipality for the good of residents amid the two-year war against Hamas in Gaza and the war last year with Iran were transferred to a community fund and from there, allegedly “found their way into the private pockets of the mayor and his associates.”

The Kan public broadcaster reported that a relative of Glam as well as........

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