Two weeks before 9/11, Bernard Kerik flew to Israel. Within months of the attacks, he had pocketed a quarter-million dollars from an Israeli billionaire and had his rent—$236,000 over two years—quietly paid by a developer in Donald Trump’s inner circle. He disclosed none of it.
That is not speculation. That is the documented record of the man who ran the NYPD on the day America was attacked—a record that includes a $250,000 “unconditional loan” from Eitan Wertheimer, a board member of the Jewish Agency, the organization that surfaced in FBI files as the employer of Paul Kurzberg, one of the “Dancing Israelis” arrested for celebrating the collapse of the Twin Towers.
Kerik went to prison for the lies. Trump let him out. What are the odds?
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What follows is a factual accounting of documented events, the sheer improbability of which has fueled speculation for years.
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The Israel Trip
In late August 2001, just two weeks before hijackers would commandeer four commercial airliners and bring down the Twin Towers, Bernard Kerik traveled to Israel. The trip was ostensibly a routine exchange with Israeli law enforcement officials. Kerik was still serving as Correction Commissioner at the time, though he was already in line to become Police Commissioner—a transition that would occur only days before September 11.
The timing of this trip has long been a footnote in the broader narrative of that summer. But for researchers who have combed through the 9/11 Commission files and subsequent investigations, the proximity of Kerik’s travel to the attacks—and the company he kept while there—has never been fully explained.
The Money He Didn’t Declare
Two financial arrangements from that period have since been confirmed through court documents and journalistic investigation, both of which Kerik failed to disclose on his official financial statements.
First: In 2001, Israeli billionaire Eitan Wertheimer extended Kerik a $250,000 “unconditional loan.” The funds were ostensibly for a business venture, but the terms were remarkably generous—no collateral, no repayment schedule, and no apparent expectation of return. Kerik later claimed the money was a loan, but failed to report it as income or as a gift, a violation of New York City’s financial disclosure rules.
Second: In October 2001—just one month after the attacks—Kerik began receiving $236,000 in rent payments for two years, paid by none other than Steve Witkoff. Witkoff, a real estate developer and close associate of Donald Trump, covered Kerik’s housing costs at a time when Kerik was a public servant. Like the Wertheimer loan, this arrangement went undeclared.
Who is Eitan Wertheimer? At the time, he was one of Israel’s wealthiest industrialists, heir to the Iscar metalworking fortune. He was also a member of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency, an organization with a long and complicated relationship with U.S. intelligence files.
The Jewish Agency Connection
The Jewish Agency for Israel is a century-old institution responsible for facilitating Jewish immigration to Israel. It is, on its face, a charitable and administrative body. But FBI files declassified over the years have placed at least one notable figure within its orbit: Paul Kurzberg.
Kurzberg was one of the so-called “Dancing Israelis”—five men arrested on September 11, 2001, after witnesses in New Jersey reported seeing them cheering and celebrating as the towers collapsed. The men were employees of Urban Moving Systems, a New Jersey-based moving company that the FBI later concluded was “at least in part” a cover for Israeli intelligence operations. Kurzberg’s name appeared in FBI files in connection with the Jewish Agency.
The FBI detained the five men for more than two months, ultimately releasing them without charges and deporting them back to Israel. The official explanation—that they were simply “celebrating” out of joy at America’s misfortune—never sat well with investigators who noted the men’s suspicious behavior, their multiple passports, and their association with a company that had no real business activity.
The Pardon
The story does not end in 2001. In 2009, Bernard Kerik was sentenced to four years in federal prison on charges including tax fraud, lying to the government, and obstruction of justice. The charges stemmed largely from the same undisclosed financial benefits that had first raised eyebrows years earlier—the Wertheimer loan, the Witkoff rent payments, and other gifts from figures with business before the city.
He served three years. Then, in February 2020, President Donald Trump granted Kerik a full pardon, praising him as a “fine man” and citing his service to the country.
What Are the Chances?
It is here that the factual record ends and the questions begin.
What are the odds that the man responsible for New York City’s police response on 9/11—the single deadliest terror attack in American history—received a six-figure “loan” from a billionaire with ties to an organization named in FBI files alongside an arrested “Dancing Israeli”?
What are the odds that, just weeks after the towers fell, another wealthy developer—this one a future Trump associate—quietly picked up his rent tab to the tune of $236,000?
What are the odds that both payments went unreported, that the man who received them went to prison for it, and that he was ultimately pardoned by the same president who counted Witkoff as a close friend?
