A 21-year-old US citizen studying at a Haredi yeshiva in Jerusalem was indicted in the city’s District Court on Friday for allegedly sending information to Iranian intelligence in exchange for hundreds of dollars.

Eli Levon, then a student at the large Mir yeshiva in Mea She’arim, received $861.35 in cryptocurrency from a Telegram chat app account called “Sina” in December, and another $517.78 in cryptocurrency from an account called “Alecsander” in February, prosecutors said.

He was arrested on June 9 and is charged with contact with a foreign agent and providing information that could benefit an enemy, according to the indictment.

The tasks Levon performed allegedly included sending photographs of Jerusalem’s Central Bus Station; hiding a cigarette box with a note reading “the work is done” in the Hadar Mall; and buying a USB flash drive, wrapping it in a NIS 50 bill and planting it in a central Jerusalem eatery.

However, the indictment said that Levon refused a request by Alecsander in February to send a list of fellow Mir yeshiva students.

Levon performed the tasks despite having “reasonable basis” to assume the accounts acted on behalf of Iranian intelligence, prosecutors said.

Police had on Tuesday already announced that a US national arrested for spying for Iran was set to be charged, but the specifics of the case were under a gag order.

Levon is one of dozens of people, mostly Israeli citizens, who have been arrested in Israel in recent months for allegedly........

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