(AP-Newsday) Josef Federman - Israeli police on Thursday arrested a 19-year-old Jewish man who holds dual Israeli and American citizenship, who they said was the main suspect in a wave of bomb threats against Jewish community centers in the U.S., appearing to crack a case that has sent a chill through the American Jewish community. Israeli police described the suspect as a hacker. "He's the guy who was behind the JCC threats," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. The man is also suspected of placing threatening phone calls to Australia, New Zealand and within Israel. Police also said he had disrupted a Delta Airlines flight at New York's JFK airport in 2015. Israel's national police chief Roni Alsheich said, "This does not bring honor to the State of Israel, of course. But I think it does bring respect to Israel's police."
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