Gabriel Turgeman

Gabriel Turgeman (; born 1957), known as The Evasive Pedophile, is an Israeli serial rapist who raped at least five young girls in Ashdod from 2002 to 2004. For his crimes, he was sentenced to 45 years imprisonment, the highest sentence imposed on a sex offender in the country.

Between 2002 and 2004, there was a spate of serial rapes in Ashdod and Ashkelon, each of which followed the same modus operandi: the victim was always a young girl aged between 6 and 10, lived in a Haredi Jewish neighborhood and was abducted by an adult male driving a Renault Express. The first recorded incident occurred in November 2002, when Turgeman forcibly abducted a 10-year-old girl from one of Ashdod's neighborhoods and drove to an isolated area outside the city. He was brought before the court in Beersheba for the rape of five victims and an assault from nine years ago, for which he had been released due to lack of evidence.