It is both a sad and a happy day when a prime minister (or president or mayor or city councilpeople  or other important dignitary) gets convicted for his crimes.

Sad: it is a shame we have corruption at such high levels. I think it reflects poorly on society.

Happy: nobody is above the law. They might not always be easy to catch or bring proof against, but when it happens, nobody is above the law. We have a president in jail, and now we will have a prime minister in jail. Mayors and city-councilpeople and MKs are already regular features of the jail system...

Former Mayor of Jerusalem Uri Lapoliansky was released this afternoon from jail to house arrest for a period of 10 days.

He was greeted warmly by supporters...I still have a hard time believing he took a bribe of 3 million shekels...

I hope he proves beyond any doubt that he is innocent, as this video is very reminiscent of the Aryeh Deri days in which we appeared to be lovingly supporting criminals...

If the video below doesn't show for you, see it on the Kikar Shabbos website...