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First Haredi secret agent completes successful drug sting
Haaretz.com/Channel 10 daily feature for February 26, 2008.
By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Israel's first ultra-orthodox secret agent completed a successful undercover sting in central Israel on Monday, leading to the arrests of 11 suspected drug dealers.
Shlomo Traitel, 34 and a father of five, always stood out in his Haredi community because of his work as a police officer. But only after the operation in Ramle and Lod on Monday did his peers realize the extent of his work.
The arrests followed six months of contact-building with the dealers, during which they began to buy the story that Shlomo's purchases were for the benefit of yeshiva students just looking to get high.
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