During the year 1990, Ronnie Leibowitz robbed twenty-one bank branches, mostly in the Tel Aviv area, by using a motorcycle (an Italian Moto Guzzi) to enter and escape banks, and then hiding the motorcycle in a truck readied for that purpose in advance. The police investigators, searching for a fugitive motorcycle and not a truck, were unable to locate him. The mass media “crowned” him as the “Motorcycle Bandit” and granted his crimes considerable media coverage. Only after twenty-one robberies took place was Leibowitz apprehended by the police.