Israel is refusing a US request to extradite an Israeli-American teenager who made hundreds of bomb threat calls to American Jewish institutions over the last several months.
According to Channel 2, Israel has denied the US Department of Justice request to return the Ashkelon teenager to the US to face charges, saying Israeli prosecutors plan to charge him on Monday.
Israeli prosecutors are expected to indict the 18-year-old with crimes involving extortion with menaces, causing panic and money laundering.
On Friday, he was charged in the US with 28 counts of making threatening calls and conveying false information to police, according to the indictment filed in federal court in Orlando. Separately, he was charged with three more counts of making threatening calls, conveying false information and cyberstalking in an indictment filed in federal court in Athens, Georgia.
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