He also alluded to his Jewish heritage with his lineage containing fake Ashkenazic names including Meyer Lansky, the name of a former Jewish gangster. Hawila went as far as to learn Hebrew in order to recite Jewish prayers as well as signing up to a local Chabad community center at Texas A & M University in College Station, where he could study the Torah. Hawila was in fact from the southern Lebanon town of Tyre and was born into a Shi'ite Muslim household.īut none of this was mentioned as the couple's relationship developed and deepened. He says he became obsessed with the Jewish religion during his lonely teenage years in the Lebanese countryside, and that he'd tried to convert, only to be rejected by a synagogue. In what appears to be a lovestruck moment of madness, Haliwa went on to fabricate an entire backstory relating to his non-existent Jewish roots after his new bride became suspicious about his past.
Eliyah Hawila, 23, whose real name is Ali Hassan Hawila and who hails from Lebanon, struck up an online relationship with Sally, a Jewish woman of Syrian descent who lives in Brooklyn, New York.Ī Muslim man sparked an FBI probe after posing as an Orthodox Jew to get married, then claiming he was an NSA worker after being busted by his family.Įliyah Hawila, 23, whose real name is Ali Hassan Hawila and who hails from Lebanon, was already living in College Station, Texas, when struck up an online relationship with Sally, a Jewish woman of Syrian descent who lived in Brooklyn, New York.
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