Serial Sex Offender Arrested for Tel Aviv Break-In and Rape
A serial sex offender from East Jerusalem was arrested after allegedly breaking into a Tel Aviv woman's apartment twice, raping her during the first visit. Prosecutors filed a statement ahead of an impending indictment.
A 42-year-old serial sex offender from East Jerusalem has been arrested on suspicion of breaking into a young woman's apartment in Tel Aviv on two separate occasions, raping her during the first break-in. According to police and court records, the suspect—who was under supervision by the Tzur Unit for previous sex offenses and possessed an extensive criminal record—followed the victim in her twenties after she left a local club.
The initial attack occurred when the suspect followed the woman home, forced entry into her apartment, and raped her before fleeing with her apartment keys. Two weeks later, utilizing the stolen keys, he returned to the residence, attempted to touch her, and filmed her inside her home. Police apprehended the suspect on October 27, election day, following the second intrusion. Forensic examinations, technological findings, and data recovered from his mobile phone linked him to the acts.
The Tel Aviv District Prosecutor's Office has submitted a prosecutor's statement to the court, and a formal indictment alongside a request for detention until the end of legal proceedings is expected in the coming days. A Tel Aviv court extended his remand until November 12.
The suspect's criminal history spans nearly two decades of repeated offenses. In 2006, he was convicted under a plea bargain of committing an indecent act against a six-year-old girl after luring her away with promises of candy. In 2012, while bound by a sex offender supervision order and a suspended sentence, he entered a sleeping patient's room at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem and assaulted her. He accumulated additional convictions for drug offenses and, most recently, assaulted a minor in 2022.
