An Israeli court sentenced a teenager to ten years in prison for
making bomb threats targeting airports as well as Jewish Community Centres
and schools in the U . S . from 2016 to 2017 .
He was additionally sentenced to pay a fine of 16, 000 dollars , the Tel Aviv
court said today.
The 20 -year -old , arrested in southern Israel in 2017 , forced evacuations across
the U . S . and contributed to accusations that President Donald Trump had
sparked a wave of anti -Semitism .
He also threatened a U . S . senator and targets in Australia and New Zealand.
Media has reported that the Israeli citizen also has U . S . citizenship.
The man was found guilty of acts he committed after he turned eighteen, which was in August 2016 .
The court said he had committed around 2, 000 threats by phone and email
using identity- masking technology since 2015 .
According to the conviction , the teenager marketed his threat services through
the online marketplace AlphaBay , charging 40 dollars to call a private home
and threaten a massacre, 80 dollars to threaten a school and 500 dollars to
bomb threat a plane.
He received the equivalent of 873 , 179 shekels in the electronic currency bitcoin for the threats, the court said .
He was convicted of extortion by threats, publishing false information thataw
Wwwcauses fear and panic and money -laundering , among other charges.
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