The US State Department denied any government intervention in the release of Tom Artiom Alexandrovich. Officials said Alexandrovich was given a court date for charges related to soliciting sex from a minor. He did not claim diplomatic immunity, as he was not on an official diplomatic trip, and was released by a state judge pending trial. Alexandrovich, 38, is Acting Head of Data & AI at Israel’s National Cyber Directorate. He reports directly to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and oversees critical Israeli infrastructure, including power grids, airports, and intelligence networks. He also founded Israel’s multi-million-dollar “Cyber Dome” initiative, which uses AI to detect and repel cyber threats. Las Vegas police, working with the FBI, Homeland Security, and Nevada’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, arrested eight men on Wednesday. All faced charges of luring children for sexual acts. Alexandrovich was the only one of them who was released quickly on bail without his passport seized, allowing him to return to Israel. Israeli media reported only that he was “briefly detained for questioning,” omitting further details about the felony charges or the multi-agency investigation. On social media, the case has sparked growing controversy over Israel’s influence on the US. Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene raised the case on Tuesday, drawing a contrast between freeing Alexandrovich and blocking Palestinian children from Gaza from entering the US for medical care. “Two recent decisions made by the State Department both involve children,” she wrote. “We need to be the America that allows war torn children to come here for life saving surgeries and the America that never releases a foreign child sex predator that our great LEO’s [law enforcement officers] caught.”Wow. The Israeli-born Acting US Attorney for Nevada, Sigal Chattah, has just announced she is NOT going to prosecute Israeli child sex crimes suspect Tom Alexandrovich, leaving it instead to local prosecutors where it is far less likely to be successful, given that he was allowed… pic.twitter.com/WA3njItxut
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) August 18, 2025
Two recent decisions made by the State Department both involve children.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene?? (@RepMTG) August 19, 2025
We need to be the America that allows war torn children to come here for life saving surgeries and the America that never releases a foreign child sex predator that our great LEO’s caught.
But in this… https://t.co/DAoKlC2sNd
