worked closely with the Israeli authorities on the investigation, starting in September — months before American organizations
began to note a surge in threats to American targets, according to Cary Gleicher, the bureau’s top agent in Israel.
Jewish Center Bomb Threat Suspect Is Arrested in Israel -
By ISABEL KERSHNER, ADAM GOLDMAN, ALAN BLINDER and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑAMARCH 23, 2017
JERUSALEM — A monthslong wave of bomb threats against Jewish institutions in the United States
that prompted evacuations, heightened security and fears of rising anti-Semitism gave way to an unexpected twist on Thursday.
Laurie Goodstein contributed reporting from New York, and James Kerstetter from San Jose, Calif.
A version of this article appears in print on March 24, 2017, on Page A1 of the New York edition
with the headline: Teenager in Israel Is Arrested in Threats to U. S. Jewish Centers.
The surge in threats over the past few months — well over 100 sent to Jewish community centers, schools
and museums since the start of the year — coincided with an increase in hate crimes against a number of groups, from scrawled swastikas to homicides, feeding worries about a new era of bigotry.
And some recent anti-Semitic acts were apparently committed by others, like threats against Jewish
centers for which a Missouri man was charged, and the vandalizing of Jewish cemeteries.