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A man was arrested, charged and convicted of fraud related charges after posing as a Mossad agent and collecting large amounts of money for consulting fees, according to court proceedings in Israel.
Now, the Raanana man was sentenced to just over two years in prison for fraudulently claiming he was a senior Mossad official.
Shai Raz, 41, reached a plea bargain deal with prosecutors and was sentenced by the magistrate Raanana Magistrate’s Court to 27 months in prison.
Raz had falsely claimed that he is a security specialist with a background in the Mossad, and fraudulently took hundreds of thousands of shekels in consultation fees. He also lied to a woman about being a Mossad agent in order to be romantically involved with her.
This was not the first time that a Jewish man posed as a law enforcement officials.
As we reported earlier, a rabbi was arrested and charged with impersonating a police officer related charges after he was caught making an unlawful traffic stop, according to police reports in New York.
A young woman immediately suspected that something was wrong when a man driving a Toyota Camry flashed her a police badge and ordered her to pull over to the side of the road.
The Rabbi, Alfredo Borodowski, 49, of Congregation Shalom Yaakov in Larchmont, New York, is now facing charges of first-degree criminal impersonation, a felony.
The rabbi, who lives in White Plains, approached the 24-year-old driver on Mamaroneck Avenue around 9:30 am apparently upset that she was driving very slowly, police said. The man stuck out his hand and shouted "Police! Police! Stop!" While waving a fake badge through the window, according to the criminal charges filed in court.
"Stop here!" Borodowski allegedly shouted, pointing to the side of the road near 900 Mamaroneck Avenue.
Instead of stopping, the woman called police.
"The defendant is not a police officer, and he did not have the approval of any police department to present himself as such," the criminal complaint said.
Borodowski is also the executive director of the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Studies at the University of New York. He previously served as rabbi of the Jewish Community Center of Harrison and his wife, Shira Leibowitz, is head of the junior school at Solomon Schechter School of Westchester.