https://anash.org/another-missionary-family-outed-in-yerushalayim
A special investigation carried out by Yad L’Achim in recent months has culminated in the exposure of a non-Jewish Messianic family living for the past year in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood in Yerushalayim.
The story began, according to information provided by an organization that is active against missionaries in Spanish-speaking countries, some time ago when a Christian youth by the name of Goncalo Cabral, who lived in Argentina, decided to move to Israel. He made contact with an elderly Jewish woman in his country, and told her of how he had been abandoned by his parents and was helpless. She took mercy on him, brought him into her home and raised him like a son.
Goncalo used his association with her, including her Jewish family name, to trick the Israeli authorities into thinking he was a Jew and granting him entry to the country. He later changed his name again, this time to Ariel Katzenberg.
https://vinnews.com/2025/08/26/yad-lachim-expose-missionary-who-posed-as-rabbi-officiating-at-weddings-and-conversions/
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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Shimon Abargil, a field coordinator for the organization Yad L’Achim, revealed disturbing details in a radio interview on Wednesday about a man named Ariel Katzenberg, who posed as a charedi rabbi but was actually a Christian missionary who believes in Jesus.
The impostor lived in the heart of Bnei Brak and later in Tiberias, leading a double life: outwardly, he conducted conversion and wedding ceremonies, taught Torah, and even wrote and sold mezuzahs. But behind his charedi appearance hid a Christian missionary who forged official documents and led unsuspecting people into Christian baptism ceremonies.
The organization obtained surveillance footage from cameras that Katzenberg himself had operated. These videos, along with forged documents he used and presented to recognized rabbinical courts in Israel, led to the exposure of the case and a demand to open a police investigation.
The missionary managed to infiltrate the official rabbinical systems using forged documents claiming Jewish identity. “We went to those rabbinical courts and told them he had forged their documents, and they were simply in shock,” described Abargil.
As a result of the exposure, the official rabbinical courts whose documents had been forged were forced to take a dramatic step: in order to combat the phenomenon, they began issuing new certificates protected by unique identification markers, aimed at ensuring the Interior Ministry and authorities that the documents are genuine and valid.
This case highlights the serious danger posed by missionary impersonation and the vulnerability of even official institutions to sophisticated fraud.