Eliyah Hawila, 23, real name is Ali Hassan Hawila was born in Lebanon. Despite growing up Muslim, he claims he wanted to be Jewish and married a Syrian Jew from Brooklyn.
A Muslim man who posed as an Orthodox Jew and claimed to work for the National Security Agency is now being looked into by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Eliyah Hawila tells Israeli TV how he came to Judaism as a teen in Lebanon, his regrets and guilt over deceiving his bride, and his desire to come to Israel and actually convert