{"id":316559,"date":"2026-06-23T06:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/316559\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T06:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:34:10","slug":"extradited-us-israeli-indicted-in-florida-for-2016-2017-threats-to-jewish-institutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/316559\/","title":{"rendered":"Extradited US-Israeli indicted in Florida for 2016-2017 threats to Jewish institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

A dual citizen of the US and Israel was indicted in a federal court in Florida on Monday for allegedly perpetrating a wave of bomb threats against Jewish institutions in 2016 and 2017.<\/p>\n

Michael Ron David Kadar<\/a>, 27, previously served seven years in an Israeli prison for the calls to Jewish organizations in multiple countries.<\/p>\n

At the time of his conviction, Kadar\u2019s lawyer said he had autism and was suffering from a brain tumor.<\/p>\n

Kadar traveled to Norway to seek asylum after completing his sentence in Israel. He was extradited to the US on Thursday, the Department of Justice said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Kadar faces charges in Florida, Georgia and Washington, DC, for threats to Jewish institutions and other crimes targeting those areas.<\/p>\n

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He was indicted for hate crimes and obstruction of the free exercise of religion. The hate crime charges carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and the bomb threats a maximum of 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tMichael Kadar at his sentencing hearing at the Tel Aviv District Court on November 22, 2018. (Screen capture\/X)<\/p>\n

Kadar had been detained in Norway and was fighting extradition to the US.<\/p>\n

He was a minor at the time of some of the offenses, and his name had been under gag order in Israel until last year.<\/p>\n

The so-called \u201chacker from Ashkelon\u201d admitted in court to making some 2,000 fake bomb threat calls to hospitals, airlines, schools and various Jewish institutions in the US and beyond out of boredom.<\/p>\n

He was found guilty in June 2018 of hundreds of counts of extortion, spreading false information that caused panic, computer offenses and money laundering, among other charges.<\/p>\n

That November, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined NIS 60,000 ($16,068), which ended up being commuted.<\/p>\n

Upon arriving in Norway in 2024, Kadar submitted a request for asylum. Norwegian authorities rejected the claim and detained him on an existing US extradition charge. A ruling from a Norwegian appeals court stated it \u201cassumes Kadar is mentally incompetent today, and most likely was at the time of the crimes in 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tAn American-Israeli Jewish teenager (right), accused of making thousands of violent telephone threats and other crimes in the United States and elsewhere, is escorted by a guard as he leaves the court in Rishon Lezion, March 23, 2017. (AFP\/Jack Guez)<\/p>\n

In a 2017 interview<\/a> with The Times of Israel, Kadar\u2019s parents said their son, while highly precocious intellectually, had suffered from the tumor from a very young age, possibly since he was born, and that it blocked his development, causing cognitive and psychiatric disorders throughout his life.<\/p>\n

Kadar told interrogators after his March 2017 arrest that he thought the bomb threats were part of a \u201cgame\u201d and that he was \u201ccausing fun\u201d for others.<\/p>\n

According to authorities, Kadar made thousands of threatening calls, mostly to community centers and schools in the US, from December 2016 to March 2017, using an online calling service that disguised his voice and allowed him to hide his identity.<\/p>\n

He also targeted hundreds of airlines and airports, malls and police stations, in the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, Australia and Britain, and tried to extort Republican State Senator Ernesto Lopez from Delaware.<\/p>\n

In addition to the bomb threats, he offered his extortion services through an online black market. Court documents linked him to a post on the now-shuttered illicit marketplace AlphaBay, advertising a \u201cSchool Email Bomb Threat Service.\u201d The ad offered to send customized threats to schools for $30, plus a surcharge if the buyer sought to have someone framed.<\/p>\n

His threats caused fighter jets to scramble, planes to dump fuel and make emergency landings, schools to evacuate, and numerous other chaotic episodes. In some cases, he allegedly threatened to execute children he claimed to be holding hostage. Police also found hundreds of photos and videos of child pornography on his computer.<\/p>\n


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