documents FBI files published on the US Department of Justice website show that pedophile Jeffrey Epstein funded the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) group and the settlement building organization the Jewish National Fund (JNF).
Analysis of income and transfers to exempt non-charitable organizations, released by the FBI, shows that the convicted sex abuser funded FIDF, which "raises funds for active-duty Israel Defense Forces soldiers and veterans."
On its website, FIDF says it "funds programs for combat soldiers aimed at alleviating financial stress, economic uncertainty, or distraction, allowing their minds to focus entirely on the complex military missions at hand."
The organization also "personally connects a donor with a selected brigade to provide critical support."
In 2008, the New York Post-owned Page Six newspaper reported that Epstein, while in Israel, took a "tour of military bases with the group's chairman, Benny Sahbtai, and also met with Israeli scientists."
According to FBI documents, Epstein also funded the largest settlement building body in Palestine, the Jewish National Fund (JNF).
Epstein, who had close ties to many Israeli figures, also hosted UAE billionaire Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, CEO of Dubai's international port operator DP World, on his private Caribbean island, Little Saint James.
Ehud Barak, who was prime minister of Israel between 1999 and 2001, teamed up with Epstein in 2015 - long after he was first convicted as a sex offender - to fund Reporty Homeland Security, a startup headed by Barak and now renamed Carbyne.
Despite downplaying his relationship with Epstein, Barack's name brings up 4,078 results in the file.
Other recently released files reveal that Epstein and Barak, who also served as defense secretary between 2007 and 2013, had a long-standing relationship. /Telegraph/
