The Car Bomb Wars of the Israeli Mafias

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Car bombs, shoulder-fired missiles, grenades and hits across 5 continents; the Israeli mafias that rose up in the 90's and fought each other for control of gambling and drug rackets for the following decades are among the most sophisticated in the world. At one point, they controlled 80% of the world's global ecstasy trade and partnered with street gangs in Los Angeles to distribute. The Alperons, Abergils, Rosensteins, and Abutbuls had no problem going after judges, politicians and cops. And when they weren't busy killing each other over bottle recycling rackets in Israel, they established global networks of drugs and gambling across Europe, Asia, and America. Danny is joined by Israeli crime reporter Ben Hartman in this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yoni Alzon was only 22 years old, but he was already active in the most feared
0:07.1	Israeli mafia operating in the country, also in Europe and America, the Abber's Yale
0:11.8	crime family.
0:13.0	Unfortunately, his future wasn't looking too bright.
0:16.4	He had just been convicted of the murder of another gangland figure in 2003,
0:20.2	a crime boss that was allied with Zev Rotenstein, the main rival of his bosses.
0:25.1	Alzone was staring down a life sentence, and he made the unfortunate decision to turn
0:29.4	state's witness against one of the Abber's jail associates for the same murder he had already been convicted of.
0:35.0	The Abbergeos weren't exactly lightweights.
0:37.4	They weren't scared to kill witnesses and Israeli mafia figures have a long history of
0:41.3	targeting anyone who got in their way.
0:43.0	Police, mayors, judges, prosecutors, it didn't matter.
0:47.0	All of them, though, was said to testify not only against the associate,
0:50.0	but against high up figures in the Abizio family, including some of the four brothers who ran it.
0:56.2	It was December of 2005, and figures in the Israeli underworld had been fighting a costly war that shocked the country.
1:06.0	Bodies were dropping all over as rival families made him broke alliances, trying to gain control of various gambling, extortion, drug, and waste management rackets.
1:11.0	The families were no joke and punched well above their weight.
1:16.4	They controlled the global ecstasy trade,
1:18.3	were active on five continents and killed people all over the world,
1:22.0	sometimes using high-tech car bombs.
1:24.7	One had even aligned with the Latino street gang in Los Angeles to take on La Ama, the Mexican mafia.
1:29.7	It's like something out of a grand theft auto plot line and law enforcement couldn't
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