23 Apr 2026
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mission-israel-megamot-shalom-highest-paid-employees

Lede: A Drop Site investigation reveals the highest paid employees of the
Israeli group running the infamous pro-Israel doxxing site.

The pro-Israel doxxing site Canary Mission has been notoriously secretive since
its creation in 2015. The anonymous website, which began as an online blacklist
targeting academics and activists who expressed pro-Palestine views, over the
last year has been used by the Trump administration to select international
students for arrest, detention, and deportation. Despite its increasingly high
profile, the website's operators have remained largely unknown.

In January, Drop Site reported on unlisted websites used by Canary Mission to
plan and execute its doxxing operation and was able to confirm that the site is
operated in Israel. The unlisted website data revealed that an employee paid by
the Israeli nonprofit Megamot Shalom as a writer provided content for Canary
Mission's dossiers of targets, confirming earlier reporting by The Forward that
Megamot Shalom's only known activity appears to be providing support to Canary
Mission.

Drop Site has now identified five more people whom Megamot Shalom has employed
as content writers, editors, and consultants. These individuals - Elihu David
Stone, Yehuda HaKohen, Abigail Bornstein, Aharon Dikel, and Alexander Malbin
Duncan - were identified through a review of Megamot Shalom's business filings
with the Israeli government from 2016 to 2024, where they were listed as the
nonprofit's highest-paid employees. They are all Americans who moved to Israel
and are connected to one another and individuals reported to be involved with
Canary Mission.

None of the individuals identified by Drop Site responded to requests for
comment. Drop Site is not publishing the names of two other individuals listed
in Magamot Shalom's filings because additional identifying details were not
publicly available.

The Canary Mission website was launched in the spring of 2015; Megamot Shalom
was incorporated in late 2015 and made its first filing in 2016. A series of
reports by The Forward in 2018 uncovered evidence that Megamot Shalom was formed
as the entity running Canary Mission's operations by a UK-born businessman named
Jonathan Bash, who now lives in Jerusalem.

Bash and Megamot Shalom did not respond to requests for comment.

Drop Site's previous investigation confirmed that Megamot Shalom appears to run
Canary Mission, with non-public websites revealing staging material for Canary
Mission's website showing that someone uploading content for a dossier of a
pro-Palestine activist on the site matched the name of a person listed as a
content writer on Megamot Shalom's business listing, a UK-born writer named Alex
Ben Carson, now living in Jerusalem.

Megamot Shalom's filings reveal that it receives millions from overseas donors,
including funds from major American nonprofits that were earmarked for Canary
Mission on their tax filings, another indication that Megamot operates the
website. American donations are moved to Megamot via a New York-based nonprofit
called the Central Fund of Israel. Drop Site previously uncovered ties between
Bash and a New York interior design business that shares an address with the
Central Fund of Israel.

The American Israelis who appear to be providing content for Canary Mission's
operations via Megamot Shalom come from all over the U.S., and have been
involved in American organizations like settler nonprofits, the Wexner
Foundation, and Israeli groups with reported ties to the Israeli government such
as the legal nonprofit Shurat HaDin.

A number of the Megamot Shalom content writers are also associated with Aish
HaTorah, a Jewish Orthodox educational nonprofit based in Jerusalem to which
Bash, some his family members, and other Megamot Shalom board members have
longstanding ties.

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