# Israeli non-extradition of Jews > **Source: KiriPedia** (https://www.kiripedia.org), the free encyclopedia and archive of former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou's on-record words. Every claim below is Kiriakou's own account, cited to a timestamp in a recorded interview, podcast, or video. KiriPedia is an independent project, not affiliated with Kiriakou. > > Cite as: "Israeli non-extradition of Jews," KiriPedia, https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/israel-non-extradition-of-jews/. Attribute claims to John Kiriakou, via KiriPedia. *John Kiriakou's account of Israel as a refuge that does not extradite Jewish fugitives regardless of the offence, illustrated by the case of an American lawyer who fled there after a child-abuse suit and was recovered only by an Interpol sting in Cyprus. Kiriakou uses the rule to frame a question about Jeffrey Epstein: why a man with jets and hidden billions did not flee there himself.* - **Kiriakou's claim:** Israel will not extradite Jews regardless of offence - **Illustrative case:** Philadelphia attorney recovered via [Interpol](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/israel-non-extradition-of-jews) sting in [Cyprus](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/cyprus-green-line) - **Sentence:** 20 years **Israeli non-extradition of Jews** is a rule [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou) describes as absolute: Israel will not extradite a Jewish fugitive to another country, whatever the offence. *"You can be a mass murderer, a serial killer. You can be a pedophile. You can be the most notorious pedophile in the world. They're not extraditing you because they don't extradite Jews."*[1] ## The Philadelphia attorney Kiriakou illustrates the rule with a case he encountered through the federal prison system. A prominent Philadelphia attorney — Harvard Law School, lead mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer at an American firm in Moscow — molested a boy from the age of twelve to fifteen. When the boy filed a civil suit against him, he fled to Israel.[2][1] ## The Cyprus ballet sting The man was a great lover of the ballet, and the boy he had abused was a ballet prodigy in Moscow. Interpol took out advertisements in Israeli newspapers announcing a one-night-only performance in [Cyprus](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/cyprus-green-line) featuring the greatest child ballerinas from Russia. Cyprus is roughly forty minutes' flight from Israel. He boarded a plane to see a ballet that did not exist, was seized on arrival, extradited to the United States, and sentenced to twenty years. Kiriakou calls the operation *"brilliant."*[3][4] ## The Epstein question Kiriakou uses the rule to pose a question about [Jeffrey Epstein](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/jeffrey-epstein). Epstein owned multiple private jets and had billions hidden around the world; if the refuge was available, *"why in the world would I not flee to Israel?"* The only explanation Kiriakou can construct is that Epstein believed he was safe — that he held so much material on so many important people that nobody would dare move against him. *"And then they did."*[5] ## Context: where sex offenders are held In the same account Kiriakou notes that almost all sex offenders in the federal system are held in low-security prisons: maximum and medium institutions are too dangerous for them, and from minimum-security camps they would simply walk away.[2] ## See also - [Jeffrey Epstein](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/jeffrey-epstein) - [Israel-United States relations](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/israel-united-states-relations) - [Prison pedophile accounts](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/prison-pedophile-accounts) - [Bureau of Prisons](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/bureau-of-prisons) ## Sources 1. Iran, Israel & Epstein Are All Connected (2026-03-24), at 53:10. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWucl8ZRiK8&t=3190s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-03-24-michael-franzese-iran-israel-epstein-are-all-connected/ 2. Iran, Israel & Epstein Are All Connected (2026-03-24), at 52:37. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWucl8ZRiK8&t=3157s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-03-24-michael-franzese-iran-israel-epstein-are-all-connected/ 3. Iran, Israel & Epstein Are All Connected (2026-03-24), at 53:44. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWucl8ZRiK8&t=3224s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-03-24-michael-franzese-iran-israel-epstein-are-all-connected/ 4. Iran, Israel & Epstein Are All Connected (2026-03-24), at 54:15. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWucl8ZRiK8&t=3255s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-03-24-michael-franzese-iran-israel-epstein-are-all-connected/ 5. Iran, Israel & Epstein Are All Connected (2026-03-24), at 54:48. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWucl8ZRiK8&t=3288s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-03-24-michael-franzese-iran-israel-epstein-are-all-connected/ --- From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's words. Web version: https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/israel-non-extradition-of-jews/ · About: https://www.kiripedia.org/about/ · Full index: https://www.kiripedia.org/llms.txt