A 20 year old Jewish man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in Israel for making 2000 hoax calls that forced evacuations of US Jewish community centres and planes. 500 of those calls were made in Australia.
Israeli-American man has been identified as Michael Kadar in separate indictments in the United States for alleged hate crimes.
According to the ABC News, “The court in Tel Aviv had convicted Kadar of counts that included extortion, disseminating hoaxes in order to spread panic, money laundering and computer hacking over bomb and shooting threats against community centres, schools, shopping malls, police stations, airlines and airports in North America, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and Denmark.”
“They raised concern at the time in the United States that anti-Semitism was on the rise.”, according to ABC News.
Kadar, a Jewish, was arrested in Israel in March 2017, “is highly intelligent and understands his actions full well," the Israeli court said.
“Kadar refuses to disclose the password to his bitcoin digital wallet and its value has since risen to more than $US1 million”, ABC News reported.
