Harassment Case
Is Sealed

Indictments A Threat
To Israel's Government

A Bloomfield Hills attorney wins $800,000
in a harassment/discrimination case
against her former boss.

INA FRIEDMAN ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT

JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER

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haron Rapp, a former in-
house attorney at Pontiac
Osteopathic Hospital, has
won more than $800,000 in
an out-of-court settlement with
her former employer.
Ms. Rapp, a 13-year employee
at the hospital, sued former CEO
Jack Whitlow and the hospital for
what she alleged was an ongoing
campaign of sexual harassment
and anti-Semitic discrimination
by Mr. Whitlow. She alleged that
Mr. Whitlow touched her inap-
propriately and made other un-
wanted sexual advances, and
bragged about his collection of
Nazi memorabilia.

Mr. Whitlow, 68, retired last fs11
but will continue to receive his an-
nual $200,000 salary for three
years, according to reports.
Ms. Rapp, 42, resigned from
POH in October 1995 after an un-
favorable performance evaluation
and brought her lawsuit against
the hospital in February 1996.
She was unavailable for com-
ment.

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sraeli police have recom-
mended to Attorney General
Elyakim Rubenstein and
State Attorney Edna Arbel
that Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu be indicted for fraud
and breach of public trust in the
scandal known as the Deri —
Bar-On Affair.
This comes after the recom-
mendation of indictments of Jus-
tice Minister Tsachi Hanegbi,
Director General of the Prime
Minister's Office Avigdor Lieber-
man and Member of Knesset
Arye Deri.
The recommendations were
leaked Tuesday, and only
Wednesday, as we went to press,
did it come out that there was a
fourth indictment — Binyamin
Netanyahu.

MR. ALAN'S

SHOES & SPORTSWEAR

presents

Speculation is that the attor-
ney general and state attorney
will not issue indictments but
will draft a report containing se-
vere criticism on how Roni Bar-
On was nominated for the post
of attorney general. His nomi-

Who will desert this
sinking ship?

nation was withdrawn within
days because of allegations
about his ties to Mr. Deri, who
was facing bribery charges.
If there is no indictment, the
expectation is that citizens
groups will appeal to the High
Court of Justice to take action,

and the court will have to decide
what to do.
If there is no indictment, it
will become a political story —
how the government and Knes-
set will react to the severe crit-
icisms.
If 61 members of Knesset vote
to bring the government down,
there will be new elections for
Knesset and prime minister.
But anyone in the governing
coalition who votes the govern-
ment down puts his own Knes-
set seat in jeopardy.
If 80 MKs vote the prime min-
ister down, only Netanyahu
goes.
The question is, who will
desert this sinking ship? It could
stay afloat if the coalition stays
together.

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