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Why Israel? I’d assume they’d hand him over given their close background no?

There is a history of people committing crimes or being suspected of doing so in US and running away to Israel and avoiding extradition due to their laws.[1] I can gather more examples to illustrate a pattern or at least proclivity but it's late and I'm off to bed.

[1]https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?...

> There is a history of people committing crimes or being suspected of doing so in US and running away to Israel and avoiding extradition due to their laws.

Did you maybe forgot to mention that those people were Israeli citizens?

can SBF apply for citizenship once he lands there?

He is jewish, I'm wondering if the law of return would apply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Return

He could apply. It would be denied, of course.

Sometimes yes, but historically in general they haven't extradited their citizens for financial crimes against foreigners. I believe it changed a few years ago, at least on paper?

> historically in general they haven't extradited their citizens

How is that relevant?

> they haven't extradited their citizens

SBF isn’t an Israeli citizen, is he?

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