Thirteen examinees, one impostor - and thousands of shekels in her pocket: A 13-year-old biotechnology student from Jerusalem showed up in May of this year to take the AMIRAM test, which is intended to determine the level of English in academia. Amazingly, it turned out that the exam wasn't hers at all – and that this wasn't the first time she'd done so.
As part of the police investigation, the investigators reached no fewer than 13 examinees who allegedly received the services of the impostor, and with its help "obtained" a grade that allows them to ease their English skills to the level of exemption.
The suspect after being interrogated,
This is how it turned out: when the suspect reported for the AMIRAM test, an examiner identified her as having taken a similar test a few months earlier. Together with the security director of the National Institute for Testing and Evaluation, the young suspect was brought to the Moriah police station, where a complaint was filed against her and she was taken for interrogation.
"Just wanted to help"
The investigation revealed that the suspect learned the examinees' details and took the test for them. In retrospect, it turned out that if the test had been administered legally, the "real" examinee would have obtained an exemption from learning English.
At the beginning of her interrogation, the suspect told the police interrogator that she had received a "trivial" sum of a few hundred shekels in return and that she had no intention of breaking the law, but only asked to help an examinee who had difficulty speaking English, and that these were her only skills. During the investigation, the contents of her cellphone were examined, which revealed to the investigators many cases of impersonation, details of examinees involved in the fraud, and a log of examinees' names, test dates, and sums of money.
Police car (illustration), photo: Marco
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Maj. Meital Hafzadi, head of the investigation team at Moriah Station, said: "This is a suspect who acted very cunningly and among her 'clients' are young women from Jerusalem and the surrounding area, but also from the south of the country. The police, and the Jerusalem District in particular, will continue to investigate suspicions and suspects involved in fraudulent and fraudulent offenses that harm the safety and property of the public."
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