Israeli police launch criminal probe into rabbi suspected of molesting boys

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein has instructed the police to initiate a criminal investigation into Rabbi Moti Elon, under suspicion that he sexually molested young boys. Weinstein made the call after at least one additional boy who claims that Elon committed sexual offenses against him came forward, and whose case is still valid under the statute of limitations. Elon was questioned in July 2010 at the offices of the National Fraud Unit.