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Police and medics surround the scene of a suicide bombing inside Jerusalem's Sbarro restaurant, Thursday, August 9, 2001. Fifteen people were killed, and 130 injured. A sixteenth victim died in 2023. (AP/Peter Dejong)
August 9, 2026, 11:17 am
25 years ago, the Sbarro bombing opened a wound in Israel that still hasn’t healed
Suicide attack at Jerusalem pizzeria killed 16, including 8 children; a quarter of a century later, a family reckons with its ongoing fight for justice — and a new wave of grief after October 7
By Ben Sales
Illustrative: A sign reading Department of Justice is displayed at the FBI field office, in Portland, Oregon. January 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
June 28, 2026, 2:31 pm
Israeli-American businessman extradited to US on felony fraud charges
Department of Justice says Michael Fein, 47, under indictment for $28 million fraud linked to investment properties; faces court in St. Louis after Israel okayed extradition request
By ToI Staff
American-Israeli teenager Michael Kadar (R), accused of making dozens of antisemitic bomb threats in the United States and elsewhere, is escorted by guards as he leaves a Rishon Lezion courtroom on March 23, 2017. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
June 23, 2026, 8:08 am
Extradited US-Israeli indicted in Florida for 2016-2017 threats to Jewish institutions
Michael Kadar, 27, faces hate crime and bomb threat charges in Florida, Georgia and Washington, DC for calls to Jewish institutions; has previously served 7 years in Israel
By Luke Tress and ToI Staff
American-Israeli teenager Michael Kadar (R), accused of making dozens of antisemitic bomb threats in the United States and elsewhere, is escorted by guards as he leaves a Rishon Lezion courtroom on March 23, 2017. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
August 18, 2025, 5:51 pm
Michael Kadar named by court as US-Israeli behind thousands of JCC bomb hoaxes
‘Hacker from Ashkelon,’ who served 7 years in Israeli jail for wave of threats in 2016-7, has autism and a brain tumor; is currently detained in Norway, fighting extradition to US
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A man walks as police patrol a neighborhood in Brooklyn with a large Orthodox Jewish community on October 12, 2023, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/ Getty Images/AFP)
June 11, 2025, 4:05 am
Man charged over plot to kill NYC Jews on Oct. 7 anniversary deported from Canada to US
US attorney says Pakistani national ‘planned to use automatic weapons to kill as many members of our Jewish community as possible, all in support of Islamic State’
By AFP
Michail Chkhikvishvili (US Department of Justice)
May 24, 2025, 5:18 pm
US extradites neo-Nazi ‘murder cult’ leader from Moldova over plot targeting NYC Jews
Michail Chkhikvishvili, a Georgian who leads the Maniac Murder Cult, faces charges for allegedly ordering poisoned candy be handed out to Jewish kids and racial minorities
By Jake Offenhartz
An American-Israeli Jewish teenager, accused of making dozens of anti-Semitic bomb threats in the United States and elsewhere, in a courtroom in Rishon Lezion on March 23, 2017. (Flash90)
December 2, 2024, 1:22 pm
Report: Israeli-US man behind JCC bomb threats held in Norway pending US extradition
Oslo rejects asylum request of man who served 7 years in jail in Israel for making thousands of fake attack calls as a teen, including to Jewish sites, but still faces related charges in US
By ToI Staff
Mexico's ambassador to UNESCO, Andres Roemer (YouTube screenshot)
March 29, 2024, 9:31 am
Jerusalem court says Mexican ex-diplomat accused of rape can be extradited
Judge rules that former ambassador to UNESCO Andres Roemer, who was arrested in Israel last year, be placed under house arrest with an electronic ankle bracelet
By Reuters
Illustrative: A Palestinian flag is waved in front of the Colosseum, during a rally in support of the Palestinians in Rome, January 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
March 13, 2024, 10:21 pm
Italy refuses to deport Palestinian suspect to Israel, fearing ‘degrading treatment’
Anan Kamal Afif Yaeesh, 36, will remain in Italian prison during probe of Israeli allegations he planned attacks, funded West Bank’s Tulkarem Brigade
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Illustrative: In this photo taken Wednesday, May 4, 2016, a worker sits at a kiosk on a quiet evening at Steeplegate Mall in Concorde, New Hampshire (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
August 6, 2023, 4:00 am
Israeli extradited, charged in US for running illegal mall kiosk network
Shai Cohen accused of arranging for Israelis to arrive in the country with tourist visas for the purpose of illicit employment in sales
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Malka Leifer at the Jerusalem District Court on February 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 29, 2023, 10:12 am
Prosecutor: Malka Leifer faked mental illness to avoid extradition to Australia
At sentencing hearing for ex-principal convicted of sexual abuse, prosecution says fact that she ‘improperly frustrated and delayed extradition proceedings’ should be weighed
By Rod McGuirk
Eliane Karp, left, with her husband, former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo, at a convention in Dublin, Ireland, October 16, 2014. (Clodagh Kilcoyne/Getty Images via JTA)
May 13, 2023, 12:53 am
Jewish former first lady of Peru flees to Israel after extradition request
Eliane Karp, spouse of ex-Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo, catches flight from US to Tel Aviv to avoid money laundering case in Lima; countries have no extradition treaty
By Jacob Kessler
Illustrative: Hezbollah operatives stand in formation at a rally to mark Jerusalem Day, or Al-Quds Day, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on May 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
February 25, 2023, 3:36 am
Key Hezbollah financier, ‘global terrorist’ arrested in Bucharest
Mohammad Ibrahim Bazzi funneled millions of dollars to Lebanese terrorist group, US says as it seeks his extradition
By AP
Modeling agent Shay Avital, center, is escorted off a plane at Ben Gurion Airport after being extradited from the Netherlands, January 3, 2022. (Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 3, 2023, 8:14 pm
Modeling agent suspected of sexual abuse arrives in Israel after Dutch extradition
Shai Avital, facing dozens of sexual harassment complaints, to be presented with police evidence against him; investigators plan to confront him with two alleged victims
By Ash Obel
Israeli modeling agent Shai Avital (C) poses for a picture with Israeli models during an event on a rooftop in Tel Aviv, on September 17, 2017. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)
December 26, 2022, 11:01 am
Modeling agent accused of sexual abuse to be extradited to Israel next week
Shai Avital, who faces dozens of sexual harassment complaints in Israel, was arrested in Amsterdam in August
By ToI Staff
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