American-Israeli Jewish teenager Michael Kadar, seen here after a March 23, 2017 hearing, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison by an Israeli court after being convicted of making more than 2,000 threats against US Jewish and other institutions

An Israeli-American convicted of making more than 2,000 threats against US Jewish institutions, airlines, police stations and even a professional basketball team's plane was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday by an Israeli court. Kadar has admitted to making some 2,000 fake bomb threat calls to hospitals, airlines, schools and various Jewish institutions in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Britain. The man, who has not been named in the proceedings in Israel due to his status as a minor when the offences took place, has been identified as Michael Kadar in separate indictments in the United States for alleged hate crimes. Kadar's lawyers argued he may not have grasped the severity of his actions because he had a brain tumour and was autistic, reported the AFP news agency. The sentence for Michael Kadar, who holds dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship and whose name is barred from publication in Israel, was delivered on Thursday in Tel Aviv District Court. The U.S. Justice Department has said that in early 2017, Kadar made bomb threats against the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish campaign group based in New York and the Israeli embassy in Washington, as well as threatening calls about bomb and gun attacks against Jewish community centers in Florida.
An Israeli-American man, Michael Kadar, is sentenced to 10 years in prison in Israel for making 2,000 hoax bomb threats that forced evacuations of Jewish community centers in the United States. The threats, made by phone and email in 2016 and 2017, raised concern that antisemitism was on the rise in the United States.