El Salvador extradites Jewish sect members to Guatemala, Israel

El Salvador has extradited two members of an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect under investigation for alleged child abuse sex to Guatemala and Israel, authorities announced Thursday.

Lev Tahor, which practices a form of Judaism in which women wear black tunics covering them from head to toe, has been the subject of a months-long probe in Guatemala for the mistreatment of minors.

In December 2024, authorities there rescued 160 minors from a farm used by Lev Tahor in Oratorio, southwest of Guatemala…