🚨 Israeli Cyber Security CEO, and IDF vet, Convicted of Sexually Assaulting 9 Different Kids as Young as 4 Years Old

by Shaun King,

He recruited soldiers into Israel’s cyber world. Now prosecutors say he raped and abused kids. This is the sickness we refuse to ignore

Some of the most dangerous people in the world aren’t the ones holding rifles. They’re the ones holding credentials—security badges, government titles, “cyber expert” reputations—while doing evil in the dark. And today, I need to talk to you about a man Israel’s cyber world elevated… who has now been found guilty of grotesque crimes against children. The man’s name is Itay Levy, the co-founder and CEO of a cybersecurity company called Kernelios. Israeli outlets report that he is an IDF veteran and that he has positioned himself as a major figure in Israel’s cyber ecosystem—including publicly recruiting people with military backgrounds into the cyber industry. His own professional biography and posts center the “warrior” identity, the “combat competency,” the idea that the battlefield becomes a tech career. But now the mask is off and we see him for the demented pervert that he actually is. According to reporting, Levy was found guilty of multiple sex crimes involving children—including statutory rape—with victims reported to be as young as four years old. Read that again. Four. There is no political excuse. There is no ideological cover. There is no “context.” There is only evil. And yes, I’m going to say this plainly: when a society glorifies “warrior” pipelines and treats men like this as prestigious and untouchable, it creates exactly the kind of environment where predators feel protected by status. America, of course, is no different.

What Israeli prosecutors say he did

The basic facts reported in Israeli media are nauseating. I’m going to keep this tight and factual, because the truth is already devastating. Here’s the single list I want you to hold in your mind:

• Israeli outlets reported that Levy was found guilty after confessing and pleading guilty to four counts of statutory rape of a minor under 16, along with indecent acts involving minors and violation of privacy.
• Prosecutors reportedly described an extended pattern of photographing and recording children without their knowledge while they were undressed, storing that material on his phone, using it for gratification, and deleting it.
• Another report said investigators found evidence he allegedly snuck into victims’ rooms at night while they slept, and that he abused multiple children between ages 4 and 12.
• Reporting described that prosecutors sought a sentence of ten years of actual prison time, plus a suspended sentence and a fine.
• One report said he is accused of assaulting nine children, and that Israeli law restricts publishing details that could identify the victims.

That’s what we know from what’s been publicly reported. And that is more than enough to say this: this man is a predator, and he should never again have proximity to children, power, or prestige.

The part that makes my stomach turn

The details aren’t only horrific. They are revealing. Because this isn’t a random person with no influence. This is a man who sat in the center of a high-status pipeline—military-linked “security” prestige flowing into private sector power. He is exactly the kind of person that the modern “national security” world loves to promote: the guy with the government experience, the cyber background, the military résumé, the confident posture of authority. That “trust me, I’m security.” And too often, that world treats that résumé like a moral certificate. It’s not. If anything, the way these systems reward secrecy, hierarchy, loyalty, and silence can create the perfect conditions for predators to hide—because people fear the institution more than they fear the harm.

Power without accountability always attracts predators. And institutions that worship power tend to protect it.

Stop romanticizing “warrior” culture when children are the collateral

One of the screenshots I found of Levy’s own public recruiting language asks: “A fighter in the IDF? Have you served as a fighter in the last 5 years?” and then pitches a pipeline into the cyber industry for combatants—turning “combat competency” into “technological proficiency.” This is what I want you to understand: when you build a culture around militarized identity and special status—warrior, elite, protector, defender—you also build a culture that is extremely good at excusing men’s behavior. It becomes: “He can’t be that kind of guy, look at what he did for the country.” It becomes: “We can’t ruin his life, he’s important.” It becomes: “Don’t talk about it, you’ll embarrass the community.” And in communities around the world—religious communities, activist communities, military communities—this is exactly how predators survive. They survive on silence. They survive on deference. They survive on the fear that speaking the truth will cost you your place in the group. I want to say to every parent, every auntie, every uncle, every community leader reading this: the group is not more important than the child. Ever. And if you are in any organization that trains people to obey orders, keep secrets, and protect reputations, you have to be twice as vigilant—because predators love those conditions.

The lie of prestige

I keep thinking about all the times we’re told to “trust” these ecosystems because they’re “the best.” The “best training.” The “best security.” The “best intelligence.” The “best discipline.” But the truth is: prestige doesn’t purify people. It often does the opposite. It makes them bolder. It makes them feel untouchable. And the most important thing we can do with a case like this is not just express outrage for a day and move on. We have to ask what structures allowed him access, opportunity, and silence. We also have to insist that the victims are protected and supported—and that no one uses the “rules” about privacy to bury the broader truth. Protecting victims’ identities is right. But hiding institutional rot is not.

I’m not letting this be “just another headline”

Because the people harmed here are children. Children do not have lobbyists. Children do not have PR firms. Children do not have teams of lawyers on retainer. Children have fragile voices and developing bodies and a need for adults to defend them. And that’s where I’m going to end this: with a moral demand. If a society has endless money for surveillance, endless budgets for “security,” endless tools to monitor and control… but can’t protect children from predators sitting in plain sight with prestigious résumés, then that society is lying about what it values. This case should not be treated like gossip. It should be treated like what it is: a test of whether people will protect the vulnerable or protect the powerful. I know which side I’m on.   Source: https://www.thenorthstar.com