Veteran Israeli Cybersecurity Official Caught Luring Minors for Sex in Vegas
Why did the FBI let him go?
FBI Director Kash Patel has been in the hot seat for the the Trump Administration’s refusal to release the Epstein Files, which Patel previously promised to do but is now implicated in what many Americans perceieve as a cover-up.
But Patel might have more explaining to do after a joint investigation by the FBI and Las Vegas, Nevada police led to the arrest of eight suspected pedophiles, including an employee of Israel’s National Cyber Directorate named Tom Artiom Alexandrovich.
All suspects were charged with attempting to entice minors online to commit sexual acts. But rather than jail and prosecute Alexandrovich, FBI officials allowed him to travel back to Israel where he is unlikely to face prosecution.
According to The Jerusalem Post:
A senior official at the Cyber Directorate in the Prime Minister’s Office was arrested on suspicion of links to pedophilia. A joint operation by Las Vegas police and the FBI over the past two weeks led to the arrest of eight suspects, including Alexandrovich, 38, from Israel. After questioning, Alexandrovich returned to Israel and was placed on leave from the directorate.
Alexandrovich’s role in Israel’s Cyber Directorate includes cyber intelligence and the cyber-threat mitigation. His position also shapes cyber policy in Israel and in international forums, according to reporting in The Jerusalem Post. Ironically, as someone who got caught allegedly attempting to lure children for sex online, Alexandrovich also advises various government bodies on cybersecurity and was a recipient of the Israel Defense Prize for his achievements.
For those wondering why Israel simply placed a suspected pedophile on leave instead of prosecuting him, the Cyber Directorate released a statement claiming that they have “not received additional details through authorized channels to date. Should such details be received, the directorate will act accordingly. At this stage, by joint decision, the employee has gone on leave to deal with the matter until things become clear.”
However, there is a mountain of evidence revealing the difficulty of bringing pedophiles to justice in Israel. According to a bombshell CBS report in 2020, Israel often provides a safe haven for criminals who sexually abuse children. The perpetrators also tend to offend again while in Israel.
Jewish Community Watch (JCW), an American organization that tracks accused pedophiles, found that between 2014 and early 2020 “more than 60 have fled from the U.S. to Israel. Given its limited resources to identify these individuals, JCW says the actual number is likely much larger.”
This is all possible thanks to Israel’s Law of Return, which allows any Jewish person to move to Israel and be granted citizenship automatically. Extraditing the offenders back to America to face charges is extremely time consuming and difficult.
Consider the story of Malka Leifer, who was accused of sexually abusing children while she was the principal of the ultra-Orthodox Adass Israel School in Melbourne, Australia between 2003 to 2008. Leifer fled to Israel after allegations came to light, avoiding deportation back to Australia for six years. In May 2020, Jerusalem District Court Judge Chana Miriam Lomp finally ruled that Leifer was fit to stand trial on 74 counts of sexual abuse and rape of minors.
Other offenders enjoy more protection by Israeli officials and have managed to skirt extradition. For example, Tomas Zeron, who was the former director of Mexico’s Criminal Investigations agency, was accused of compromising an investigation into the disappearance of 43 students in 2014. According to The Times of Israel:
Zeron fled Mexico after an investigation into the mass disappearance was reopened following the election of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2019. He has been in Israel since and has applied for asylum. Separately, Zeron is accused by Mexico of embezzling over $50 million and torturing suspects.
In the wake of the 2014 disappearance of the students, an investigative team headed by Zeron concluded, just weeks after the fact, that police had handed the group of students, who were en route to a demonstration, to a local drug cartel. The criminals then killed the group, and burned and disposed of their bodies in a river.
But an investigation later refuted his account and discovered that the government had both tampered with existing evidence and extracted new evidence through torture. In fact, Zeron resigned from his post in 2016 after a video revealed his handling of evidence that was never officially recorded.
Since Israel has decided to protect Zeron from extradition, they are harboring a Mexican fugitive wanted in Mexico.
The issue of pedophiles being met with impunity continues to be a problem in Israel, which does not have a sex offender registry. The Matzof Association, which monitors pedophilia in the country, estimates that tens of thousands of offenders operate in the country unimpeded each year. They also report that 22 cases of pedophilia were reported to the Israeli media in July 2020 alone. The vast majority of cases go unreported.
"They are not deterred by the police and certainly not deterred by the contemptuous rulings that come from the hands of judges in the various courts," said Eliran Malki, who heads the organization. Malki also cited a case in which one particular pedophile was let off without punishment by the courts, even though authorities found “thousands of pedophilic items found on his computer.” Malki purports that the court was more concerned about how a prison sentence would "harm his career."
In May 2023, the Jerusalem Post’s staff published a piece titled “Israel is trying to legalize pedophilia.” In it, far-right Israeli lawmaker Avi Moaz decried the Justice Ministry’s attempt to widen the age gap for what would be considered legal sexual relations between an adult and a minor:
Currently, the age of consent in Israel is 16 for all genders. However, that age of consent can go as low as 14, provided the other sexual partner was no more than three years older and both parties consented. But according to Maoz, the Justice Ministry is trying to change this to an age gap of five years.
"A 19-year-old man can have consensual sexual relations with a 14-year-old girl and won't face criminal charges," Maoz said.
Luckily, there is no reporting to show that the depraved proposal was approved. But the fact that Israeli politicians would even feel comfortable mulling such a proposal is pretty disgusting.
Given the context of how Israel treats those who victimize children in their own country, it’s hard to believe that Alexandrovich will ever be brought to justice for his allege attempts to engage in sexual acts with children in the United States. So, Patel should answer the most important question: why did the FBI allow that scumbag to return to Israel?
It's also worth noting that Nevada has a low age of consent, 16. This guy must have been arrested for allegedly seeking sex from a child 15 or under. Insane that he was let go.
Yet what Israel advocates are upset about is that Gazan children injured in a genocide and their parents and guardians - none of whom have done anything wrong in the US - got temporary health-care-related visas. (Marco Rubio cancelled them on orders from Laura Loomer.)
My God...how incredibly disgusting.