Israeli City Stunned That Anti-Semitic Threats Came From Within<br />Shalom Malka, 61, a retired truck driver who lives in the building to the right of the suspect’s, joked, "I didn’t know there were such clever people in Ashkelon!" He then suggested<br />that the police recruit the suspect to help out in their cyberunit.<br />So it was with shock of a different kind that residents here absorbed reports on Thursday<br />that a barrage of threats against Jewish community centers and schools around the world was said to have come from one of their own: an 18-year-old Jewish boy holed up with his computer in a fifth-floor apartment just a few blocks from the beach, the authorities say.<br />The Israeli police said he had also made threats against commercial airlines, including<br />at least one Delta Air Lines flight in 2015, forcing an emergency landing.<br />Etty Shekel said that This is an expensive neighborhood, exclusive,<br />The Israeli police seized computers, an antenna and other equipment from the family’s apartment<br />and said the calls had been made through the internet, using software to disguise the suspect’s location and voice.
