The source of at least some of the millions of dollars involved in alleged money-laundering by five of the rabbis arrested last week came from Israeli sources, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

According to court documents obtained by the Post, one of the rabbis detained, Eliahu Ben-Haim, used a source in Israel to supply money through "cash houses" in exchange for a 1.5 percent fee.

Mickey Rosenfeld, a spokesman for the Israel Police, said Friday that Israeli police had not been involved in the investigation. He declined to comment further.

Former Jerusalem Police chief Mickey Levy said Friday that Israeli authorities were not yet involved, but he didn't rule out such cooperation at a later stage in the probe.

In an interview on Israel Radio, he stressed that there was "no investigation against the Jewish community, only against alleged criminals."

The FBI revealed, however, that among the 44 …