Teenager arrested in connection to threats against Jewish centers

“It is critical that communities stand in solidarity to denounce and combat hatred and terrorism”, AIAAS said in a statement released after the arrest of a suspect identified as Michael Kaydar exactly one week before the new organization’s first meeting at Temple Emanu-El.

New Zealand Police became involved in an worldwide investigation into telephone threats in response to bomb threats, which saw a number of schools across the country evacuated past year.

Israeli police said the teen has been the subject of months-long undercover investigation by the police’s Lahav 433 anti-fraud unit. “At this time, we can not provide additional information on the investigation”. The suburban Fort Lauderdale school had armed guards at its entrances on Thursday.

“While this one aspect may be complete, there are other things that are continuing to happen around the country with desecration of cemeteries, and what appears to be a rise in anti-Semitic behavior throughout the country: college campuses, cemeteries, religious institutions”, said Shapiro.

Investigators believe the suspect is responsible for the bulk of the threats transmitted against Jewish institutions in the past several months. “The suspect holds dual American-Israeli citizenship, according to authorities”. Attorney General Jeff Sessions praised the joint U.S. Because anti-Semitic acts, beyond the JCC threats, remain frequent in the U.S., Foxman does not believe that Thursday’s arrest will lead to anyone downplaying future acts of anti-Semitism.

Anthony Townsend, associate professor of information systems at Iowa State University, said a “diligent, reasonably talented person” could have tapped into his neighbors’ wireless access points, whether or not they required a password, in 45 minutes or less.

Nimrod Vax, a co-founder of the U.S. The court accepted our argument and ordered the police to examine the young man’s medical condition.

The local branch of the FBI, which had taken part in the investigation, confirmed the arrest but did not say whether the 19-year-old is connected to the Baltimore cases.

A man was arrested in Israel on Thursday on suspicion of making dozens of hoax bomb threats against Jewish community centers in Southern California and across the United States over the past three months.

“He was the main suspect behind the numerous threats that were made to different Jewish communities and organisations around the world”, Rosenfeld continued.

Even if the suspect is Jewish, the actions nevertheless amount to a hate crime, as they involved the intentional terrorizing of Jewish communities, according to ADL Senior Associate Director Alison Mayersohn. But those threats were described by authorities as a “copycat” case.

Sessions said in a statement Thursday that the arrest is the result of a large investigation into hate crimes against the Jewish community. -Israeli citizen, the Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed.

Speaking about the incident, Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told the Jerusalem Post that “this is one of the numerous ongoing police operations that take place with other worldwide security and intelligence organizations in order to try to find suspects”.