Israeli to be extradited to US for distributing child porn, extortion

An Israeli man accused of producing and distributing child pornography will be extradited back to the US for trial.

The Jerusalem district court approves the request from the state of California to return Elad Gabber to face charges relating to child pornography and extortion.

Gabber was arrested last December in a joint raid by Israeli police and Interpol with the authorization of the Justice Ministry.

He is accused of visiting video sites featuring girls aged 12-17 and recording them performing sex acts, between June 2010 and July 2011.

Afterwards, he would find the girls on social media and threaten to publish the images if they did not perform private sex videos for him. If the girls refused, he carried out his threat and publish the images of them online.