19-year-old arrested in Israel in connection with bomb threats against U.S. Jewish community centers

Israeli police on Thursday arrested a 19-year-old man suspected of phoning in a series of bomb threats against Jewish community centers across the United States.

The wave of threats prompted community center evacuations and stoked concern among American Jews about an upsurge in anti-Semitism. The man also is suspected of calling in a bomb threat against Delta Air Lines flights from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York in January.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.