| Apologies -- I misfiled this originally. Moved to Israel. trailing wife at 2:45 p.m. EDT |
[IsraelTimes] The Israeli-American teenager suspected of being behind the recent bomb threats to JCCs and other American Jewish institutions reportedly made more than 1,000 threatening phone calls over the past two years.The suspect, whose name is being withheld by a gag order, is alleged to have targeted schools and other public institutions in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported Sunday.
Reports said he delivered the threats over a period of two years.
Israeli police only managed to zero in on the suspect after US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
sent a team of 12 FBI agents to Israel in recent weeks, Haaretz reported.
Although the investigation has been ongoing for the past two years, the breakthrough that led to the Thursday arrests of the teen and his father was only reached after FBI Sherlocks arrived in Israel several weeks ago, the daily said, citing police sources.
Trump’s intervention is significant, as he had been heavily criticized for not doing enough to end the threats to Jewish centers and for not emphatically condemning anti-Semitsm.
The report did not specify what the FBI agents managed to do that their local counterparts could not.
The suspect, who lives in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, is refusing to talk to authorities and police have still not managed to access his computers.
While the youth had apparently been making bomb threats for over two years, the urgency in apprehending him increased following a spate of threats to Jewish community centers in the US.
Police sources told Haaretz that that was in part because the suspect would monitor media reports after he’d call in a threat -- to gauge the scale of its impact. If he noticed that it was receiving considerable media attention, he would continue making threats in that same location.
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you can observe a lot just by watching...
police believe that the number of bomb threats he phoned in was much greater than was known to the public, as many went unreported.
Police are still struggling to uncover exactly what or how he did, as he has not been cooperating with police, citing his health.
Police are currently waiting for the child’s mother to retrieve the proper medical documentation proving his condition.
They have also failed to break into his computers and they say that he had no social media footprint under any name they know.
He reportedly grew careless and failed on at least one occasion to route his internet connection through a proxy, leaving behind a real IP address traced back to Israel.
Police are also working to gather information from the teen’s father, who remains in jug on suspicion that he knew what his son was doing. The dad, a computer expert himself, was likely to have recognized the high-level equipment in his son’s room, yet did not report the matter to authorities.
The suspect’s mother is also expected to be interrogated in the coming days.
Dallas JCC evacuated over threatening phone call after Israel arrest
| *sigh* Same question as before: another kid causing trouble or true malice aforethought? On the other hand, now the FBI and the Israelis know how to find someone doing this the way the last kid did. |
[IsraelTimes] A Jewish Community Center in Dallas, Texas, was evacuated due to a threatening call hours after an arrest was made in Israel in connection with dozens of other such threats around the country.
The Aaron Family JCC in North Dallas received the threatening phone call and evacuated the building shortly before 5 p.m. on Thursday. The building remained evacuated for a short time before regular activity there resumed.
The Dallas JCC previously was evacuated in January over a bomb threat, and in early March discovered that an emailed threat went to the center’s spam folder and was only located days later.