{"id":295684,"date":"2026-02-17T13:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/295684\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:11:06","slug":"alleged-rapist-arrested-at-ben-gurion-ahead-of-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/295684\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged rapist arrested at Ben-Gurion ahead of flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/israel-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israel Police<\/a> arrested a foreign tourist at Ben-Gurion Airport on Sunday night suspicion of rape and indecent acts, shortly before he was set to flee the country, the police stated.<\/p>\n<p>The police launched an investigation after a 19-year-old tourist arrived at a hospital in Jerusalem and reported to police she had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-884717\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sexually assaulted<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, both the suspect and the victim are part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/jewish-agency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jewish Agency<\/a> program trip to Israel. The incident allegedly took place in a public bomb shelter in the Kiryat Moriah neighborhood of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives from the Oz Station in the Jerusalem District quickly identified the suspect, a man in his 20s. Investigators discovered he was already traveling to the airport to leave Israel. In a coordinated effort with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-886897\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ben-Gurion Airport<\/a> police, the suspect was detained and taken back to the Oz Station for questioning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The suspect is expected to appear before the Jerusalem Magistrate\u2019s Court today, where police will request an extension of his remand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Israel Police arrested a foreign tourist at Ben-Gurion Airport on Sunday night suspicion of rape and indecent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37186,737,42,3794,105994,43,102,102106,7509,40,38,41,39,3418],"class_list":{"0":"post-295684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-ben-gurion-airport","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-jerusalem","12":"tag-jewish-agency","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-police","15":"tag-rape","16":"tag-sexual-assault","17":"tag-top-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topnews","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-tourist"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}