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US citizen charged with trying to attack US embassy branch in Tel Aviv

A view of US Embassy branch building in Tel Aviv, Israel [File: Havakuk Levison/Reuters]

A dual United States and German citizen has been arrested on charges that he travelled to Israel and attempted to firebomb the branch office of the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, federal prosecutors in New York have said.

Israeli officials deported Joseph Neumeyer to New York on Saturday and he had an initial court appearance before a federal judge in Brooklyn on Sunday. His criminal complaint was unsealed on Sunday.

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