Dutch Jewish teacher arrested in Tel Aviv on Amsterdam sex charges

ISRAEL
YNet News

Itay Blumenthal, Tova Tzimuki
Published: 03.04.16

A Dutch Jewish teacher suspected of sexually abusing children has been arrested in Tel Aviv earlier this week, two years after the Netherlands asked for his extradition, the Dutch Telegraaf

The teacher, 28, has been in Israel for three years. He was arrested on Monday and was brought to a remand extension hearing at the Jerusalem District Court the next day.

According to reports in the Netherlands, the suspect was born to a Reformist family in Amsterdam and became more observant a few years ago. He attended a yeshiva in Jerusalem, while teaching at a private school of languages in central Israel. In 2010, the suspect returned to the Netherlands, where he started working at the Cheider School in Amsterdam – a prestigious ultra-Orthodox institution that includes a kindergarten, a primary school and a high school.

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