US-Israeli man jailed for 10 years over bomb hoax calls

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

An American-Israeli hacker has been jailed for 10 years by a Tel Aviv youth court in connection to hundreds of fake bomb threats to planes and Jewish centres, including one that led to fighter jets being scrambled in Europe to intercept an airliner.

Michael Kadar was found guilty in June of about 2,000 hoaxes between 2015 and 2017 that were so extensive that they contributed to rising fears of antisemitism in the United States.

While Israel has never named the the 20-year-old as he was a teenager when he committed the crimes, the US justice department, which jointly investigated his case with Israeli police, identified him in charging documents last year.

Known in Israel as the “JCC bomb hoaxer” for his focus on Jewish community centres, Kadar’s targets also included airports, malls, police stations and hospitals from the US to Australia.

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Oliver Holmes
Thu 22 Nov 2018 12.49 GMT


Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/22/israeli-teen-michael-kadar-jailed-for-10-years-over-hundreds-of-bomb-hoax-calls

[Greybnk48]

1. This little shit targeted our daughter's JCC in WI

and scared the hell out of everyone! It's a beautiful place filled with kids, and people were afraid to go there for quite some time because of this. I can't tell you how shocking this threat was, throwing a pall over her entire community.

We're not Jewish, and I think it scared my husband and I even more, oddly enough.