In June 2018, an American-Israeli teen living in Israel was convicted of making bomb threats against prominent Jewish community centers in America in exchange for Bitcoin.
JERUSALEM, Israel – The father of an Israeli teen suspected of making threatening phone calls to dozens of Jewish community centers in the US as well as false bomb threats against airplanes said on Monday that the world must understand the mental condition of his son.
The mother of an Israeli teen suspected as being behind hundreds of false bomb threats made against Jewish institutions in America in recent months told an Israeli TV station that her son has diagnosed with autism and was not in control of his actions due to a tumor in his brain.
A San Francisco law student told The Algemeiner he was shocked this week to find the mezuzah on the doorpost of his dorm room partially burned.
Jewish community centers in three states were hit with bomb threats between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, with at least two coming via email. All were deemed to be non-credible.
TEL AVIV – Head of the opposition Isaac Herzog on Monday called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to set up an “emergency national program” in preparation for “waves” of Jewish immigration as a result of an ongoing upsurge of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States and France.
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump is “deeply disappointed and concerned” by the uptick in anti-Semitism across the U.S., White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said on Monday.
Jewish community centers in the eastern and midwestern US were targeted with bomb threats Monday, the latest in a series of incidents that has raised fears of anti-Semitism in the country.
Ivanka Trump has called for “religious tolerance” in a message on Twitter Monday, after a series of bomb threats were made against 11 Jewish community centers across the country.
Nearly a dozen Jewish community centers across the United States received bomb threats that led to evacuations, in the latest wave of such attacks.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security will be assisting local Jewish community centers in bolstering security after 16 Jewish community centers received bomb threats on the same day.
