The State Attorney's Office has decided that Attorney Yechezkel Beinisch, husband of Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch, will not stand trial on charges of improper handling of funds when he was head of the amuta (non-profit organization) for the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.
Beinisch was suspected of transferring very large sums of money without making any record of the transactions, paying inflated salaries, giving out free season tickets to half of the season ticket holders and other acts of mismanagement, leading to the collapse of the amuta. During one of the orchestra's tours abroad, a sum worth NIS 500,000 was transferred into the amuta director's account in cash and no record was made.
The State Attorney's Office said that none of the bodies which looked into the suspicions had recommended pressing charges against Attorney Beinisch. Journalist Yoav Yitzchak calls this a blatant lie, and says that the Administrator General for Nonprofit Organizations and an investigator on his behalf had determined that Beinisch had apparently committed criminal offenses.