Senior Israeli member of Orthodox Jewish sect Lev Tahor arrested for alleged human trafficking
This article was shared by DU poster Sugeo yesterday:
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Michael Sunnucks Jan 27, 2025
A senior member of an Orthodox Jewish sect wanted for alleged human trafficking has been arrested by Interpol agents in Guatemala.
Other members of the Lev Tahor sect are accused of sexual abuse of children in Central America and in 2021 members of the Jewish group were convicted of trying to kidnap a 14-year-old girl who was in an arranged marriage with adult man in the group.
Interpol and Guatemalan police said they arrested Yoel Alter, a 35-year-old Israeli national. Alter is wanted on human trafficking charges in Mexico.
In December, Guatemalan police took into custody 160 kids after it raided a Lev Tahor farm, alleging sexual and other abuse.
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https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/apgstate/senior-israeli-member-of-orthodox-jewish-sect-lev-tahor-arrested-for-alleged-human-trafficking/article_fef60af7-1d99-56f6-a160-6d1181ab77d9.html
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US renegade fundamentalist Mormons have also used Mexico in the same way these Orthodox Jewish sect people have chosen, living in ways which would have attracted the law in their earlier addresses.
It's great when they occassionally get stopped in their attempts to dominate and control other human beings, using "religion" as their trap.
Thank you to Sugeo. 
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'I escaped abusive jungle cult - then rescued my son'
3 February 2023
Raffi Berg
BBC News Online Middle East editor
Lev Tahor settled in Central America after coming under investigation in Canada
When Mexican police raided a self-styled Jewish sect, former members hoped it would spell the end of the group, which has been accused of crimes against children. Instead, the case collapsed and the sect recovered - but not before details about the cloistered community were exposed, including its plans for mass slaughter if outside authorities intervened. One former member, who recently fled, spoke to the BBC about his ordeal.
Warning: This story contains details of physical and sexual abuse
When Yisrael Amir got married, he and his bride stood under the chupah, the traditional Jewish wedding canopy, surrounded by members of their community. But what should be a couple's happiest day was for them a nightmare.
Yisrael and his wife, Malke (not her real name), were both 16 and had met there and then for the first time. The marriage had been organised by leaders of the group which they had been brought into as children. The group is Lev Tahor, Hebrew for Pure Heart, which claims to follow a fundamentalist version of Judaism. Former members though, along with an Israeli court among others, say it is nothing but a cult.
"We had no choice," Yisrael, now 22, tells me as we sit and talk in the back yard of his aunt's house, just south of Tel Aviv. "The rabbi called me into his office and said, 'Next week you're getting married. If you refuse you get punished'.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63942615