A teenager allegedly responsible for a bomb hoax to a Dubbo school in 2016 will be tried by a court in Israel.
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In February of last year, more than 200 staff and students from St Laurence’s Primary School were evacuated when an automated call was made, indicating the presence of a device on the school grounds.
Eight police were deployed to the scene for more than an hour, with a thorough search of the school revealing nothing untoward.
Notices were sent to parents informing them that the school had been evacuated, with the students, teachers and staff all sent to nearby South Dubbo Primary School.
To allay fears the notice also stipulated in bold type that all students were safe.
Roughly two hours later a further notice was sent advising that all staff and students had returned to the grounds of St Laurence's and that classes had resumed as normal.
The hoax call was one of almost 600 to be made to Australian schools, and came on the same day as a series of other fake calls at schools across NSW and the ACT, including Bathurst's Assumption College and Sacred Heart Primary School at Wagga Wagga.
Earlier this week, Israeli police charged an 18-year-old in the city of Ashkelon and will allege he made 2000 automated bomb and shooting hoax calls to schools, airlines, hospitals and Jewish centres in the US, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Israel.
Israeli authorities have not offered a motive for the attacks but the teen's lawyer in Israel said the boy had a high IQ but the emotional intelligence of a five-year-old.
His US-born mother said in an interview with Israel's Channel 2 that her son was home-schooled after he was unable to function in school due to a brain tumour.
"He's autistic," she said. "He can't control it. He can't think straight."
The teen allegedly used masking technology to hide his location and disguise his voice.
He allegedly set fees for particular calls and kept a log of all calls on a flash drive found in his laptop in his bedroom.
Israeli media reports say he had almost $US500,000 in his bitcoin account at the time of his arrest, some purportedly coming from students who wanted exams postponed.
As well as schools, hoax calls made by the boy are alleged to have forced several flights to be diverted in Australia and abroad.