Yaniv Gola, 51, of Philadelphia, was sentenced on Tuesday to 16 months in prison, and then three years of supervised release, for threatening to kill Jews and Muslims, the U.S. Justice Department stated.
From Aug. 2, 2022 to Nov. 5, 2023, Gola used voice-over-Internet protocol to mask his phone number while calling Jews and Muslims and threatening to murder, rape and hurt eight people. He faced up to 40 years in prison for the threats.
He pleaded guilty to all eight counts on Feb. 14.
In one of the calls, Gola used an expletive to refer to a Jew and said, “Now I know where you are. I’m going to kill all you Jews.”
“You all should be shoved back into ovens,” he added, stating that he intended to go to the person’s work “to kill you.”
“You’re Jewish. I’m from Hamas. You’re animals and pigs,” he told another person. “If you don’t leave that place, we’re going to blow you up.”
“Yaniv Gola made hundreds of these calls and texts, terrorizing his victims with incredibly vile, violent threats,” stated Jacqueline Romero, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
“He learned where they lived and worked, deploying those details just to heighten their fear,” Romero added. “My office and the FBI will continue to hold accountable anyone making such cruel and criminal threats.”
