He also stole blank checks from the parents of a 4-year-old who he was babysitting. Then he sold the Porsche and used the money to take a flight course. He stole a checkbook from a home where he worked as a gardener and wrote himself a 250,000 NIS check to buy a Porsche. Simon left his yeshiva studies behind and started his stint as a fraudster early on, in his teens, craving a life of luxury. When did Simon start his career as a swindler? Simon is 31 and currently lives in Tel Aviv with his girlfriend. Simon’s father is Rabbi Yohanan Hayut, the rabbi of the Israeli airline El Al (yes, the airline has a designated rabbi), and has been accused of aiding his son in his cons by introducing him as Simon Leviev and defrauding one person out of possibly hundreds of thousands of shekels. The man who still goes by Simon Leviev was born Shimon Yehuda Hayut in the mostly ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, located in central Israel, not far from Tel Aviv, to a Haredi family. As for the other questions, well, here’s what we know: Who the heck is Simon Leviev? While I’m not sure about the last one, the good news is that you’ll at least not run into Simon on Tinder - as he has now, finally, been banned from the dating app, along with other dating sites like. The story of the man born as Shimon Yehuda Hayut in Israel, who goes by Simon Leviev, and the women he conned out of millions of dollars by pretending to be a rich businessman and then asking them to lend him thousands of dollars is now an incredibly successful Netflix documentary titled, yes, “The Tinder Swindler.” And after watching the almost two-hour documentary, the people (the people are me, and probably you, too) have questions - questions like, why isn’t this guy still in jail? Who is his Israeli model girlfriend? And is online dating still safe? Shimon Hayut, or Simon Leviev, also known as the Tinder Swindler, has given both single Israeli men and the popular dating app a bit of a bad name. The latest PR scandal to hit Israel has nothing to do with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and everything to do with a conman with an affinity for online dating.
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