28 giug 2018 anni - "Israel Court Convicts Man For String Of Bomb Threats Against Jewish Centers" NPR 2018, Jun 28

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A court in Israel has convicted a man in his late teens for making a string of bomb threats to Jewish community centers around the world, including in the United States.

Reuters reports that he made about 2,000 hoax bomb threats. He was arrested in Israel in March 2017, and at the time, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the arrest the "culmination of a large-scale investigation spanning multiple continents for hate crimes against Jewish communities across [the U.S.]," NPR's Camila Domonoske reported last year.

The man is Jewish and holds both U.S. and Israeli citizenship.

Authorities in Israel did not use the man's name since he was a minor when he committed the crimes.

However, in a U.S. indictment announced earlier this year, he was named as Michael Ron David Kadar, NPR's Daniel Estrin reports. The Justice Department filed hate crime charges against 19-year-old Kadar for threats he made against various Jewish community centers and public institutions in Florida.
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The U.S.'s document cites 32 counts of transmitting threats in interstate commerce, obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs and bomb threats at various locations, including a Tampa JCC preschool, an Orlando middle school, the Orlando International Airport and a Jewish organization in Jacksonville.

In Kadar's conviction in Israel, police there say he used sophisticated equipment to mask his location and identity when he phoned-in dozens of threats "to Jewish and public institutions in New Zealand, Australia and Israel," NPR's Daniel Estrin reported earlier this year.

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