Lev Tahor (Hebrew: לֵב טָהוֹר, lit. 'pure heart') is a Jewish cult [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 1 ] founded in Israel by Shlomo Helbrans in 1988. It consists of about 200–300 members and according to Guatemalan authorities, engages in child sexual abuse, pedophilia and rape.

2025年2月25日 · Guatemalan and Belizean authorities launched a widespread search, culminating in the arrest of two key figures: 25-year-old Chaim Tzvi Malka and 35-year-old Avraham Dinkel.

2024年12月22日 · As YWN reported on Motzei Shabbos, the Guatemalan police carried out a massive raid of the Lev Tahor cult rescuing 160 children and teens and 40 women after testimonies of severe abuse at the...

2025年1月16日 · Members of the Lev Tahor cult staged a protest Thursday outside welfare facilities in Guatemala, where more than 200 children, teenagers, and women have been housed since being rescued from the...

We, the Lev Tahor Survivors, a group comprising former members who have escaped the Lev Tahor cult along with dedicated volunteers from the Jewish community, extend our deepest gratitude to the Guatemalan authorities for their courageous and compassionate efforts in liberating those who were trapped within the confines of the Lev Tahor cult.

2025年1月14日 · Eliezer Rumpler, who escaped Israel in 2020 using a forged passport while facing charges of abusing minors in the ultra-orthodox Lev Tahor cult has been arrested in Guatemala, after authorities conducted a massive raid on the sect's compound last month, rescuing over 160 children and gathering evidence of alleged human trafficking.

2024年12月21日 · Lev Tahor ("Pure Heart" in Hebrew) has faced multiple allegations of kidnapping, child marriage and physical abuse since it was founded in the 1980s.

Founded by Helbrans in Jerusalem in the 1980s, Lev Tahor has been dogged by allegations of child abuse for years. The group jumped borders for years, under scrutiny from authorities, with members...

2024年7月10日 · The defendants, leaders of an extremist religious sect called Lev Tahor, masterminded a scheme to kidnap a 14-year-old girl (“Minor-1”) and a 12-year-old boy (“Minor-2”) from their mother in Woodridge, New York.

2024年12月24日 · Last Friday, hundreds of police officers and soldiers, accompanied by social workers and psychologists, raided the farm where members of the Lev Tahor Jewish cult reside in southeast Guatemala. About 160 minors and 40 women were removed from the compound and put under the supervision of social services.