Tel Aviv suspect to be indicted over hidden filming in fitting rooms, rape count not yet included

Police and prosecutors filed a declaration of intent on Monday ahead of an indictment against Gur Levi, a 25-year-old Tel Aviv resident suspected of serious sex offenses. The expected charges focus on filming women in changing rooms and fitting rooms across the city, along with privacy violations and indecent acts, while a rape complaint filed by one complainant is not part of the case at this stage.

The case drew public attention after influencer Shir Weiss, 25, said she was filmed while changing in a Bershka fitting room in a Tel Aviv mall. According to her account, she noticed a mobile phone aimed at her from the adjacent stall, confronted the suspect, and began shouting at him.

Police opened an intensive investigation after Weiss’s complaint and circulated the suspect’s photo to help identify him. Levi was arrested earlier this month on the basis of a court warrant. After his arrest, Weiss said she felt relief and wrote, “Thank you to the Israel Police for restoring my faith. To me and to many other women. I have chills. A turning point. The power is with the women. We are not afraid anymore.”

As the investigation became public, additional similar incidents surfaced. Detectives from the sex crimes unit at Tel Aviv’s Lev police station gathered evidence indicating Levi committed indecent acts and privacy offenses on several occasions. A second complaint, including a rape allegation from another woman, was also received, but prosecutors chose for now to advance the case on three substantiated filming and privacy files while the rape allegation continues to be investigated separately. At a hearing in court on Monday, prosecutors asked to extend his detention until the end of proceedings, and an indictment is expected in the coming days.