Israeli City Stunned That Anti-Semitic Threats Came From Within
Shalom Malka, 61, a retired truck driver who lives in the building to the right of the suspect’s, joked, "I didn’t know there were such clever people in Ashkelon!" He then suggested
that the police recruit the suspect to help out in their cyberunit.
So it was with shock of a different kind that residents here absorbed reports on Thursday
that a barrage of threats against Jewish community centers and schools around the world was said to have come from one of their own: an 18-year-old Jewish boy holed up with his computer in a fifth-floor apartment just a few blocks from the beach, the authorities say.
The Israeli police said he had also made threats against commercial airlines, including
at least one Delta Air Lines flight in 2015, forcing an emergency landing.
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The Israeli police seized computers, an antenna and other equipment from the family’s apartment
and said the calls had been made through the internet, using software to disguise the suspect’s location and voice.
