Katya Sukhova's Testimony: How Spiritual Dependency Was Converted into Sexual Submission
Katya Sukhova’s Testimony (katia.soukhova@gmail.com): The Mechanics of Sexual Exploitation
Bnei Baruch Investigation · Entry point · Part 1 of 4
Katya Sukhova signed her testimony about sexual abuse by Michael Laitman under her own name. Her email katia.soukhova@gmail.com and phone +33652447883 are publicly available; her activity in her public Google Maps profile is easily traceable. Israeli police never reached out to her.
Her testimony is a chronological record of how access to a body is built step by step: from the formation of dependency to transfer into the inner circle, where the entourage provides the leader with physical contact, then organizes isolation after refusal.
2011. France. The Douiev Coordinators
The capture of the victim began in 2011 in France through Bnei Baruch’s media channels. Distance courses and online broadcasts transmitted the central dogma: connection with the Creator is impossible without perfect submission to the leader. Any critical thought was regarded as spiritual degradation.
The conversion of attention into free labor was managed by the coordinators of the European circuit, husband and wife — Jacques Douiev and Noam Douiev. Katya was transferred into a mode of constant infrastructure servicing: book translations, website content, daily logistics. The more hours she invested in free labor, the stronger her dependence on the organization grew. A similar mechanism — years of free labor as a foundation of dependency before any physical contact — is also described by Mona, who spent sixteen years inside the structure.
The 2014 Congress. Mineral Water and Special Status
Transfer from the peripheral circle to the zone of direct access took place in 2014 at a congress in Israel. Katya’s condition at that point was characterized by complete idealization of Laitman, built on his statements such as: “I am the only one who will lead you to the Creator.”
During a visit to his apartment in Petah Tikva, Laitman gestured her out from the crowd for a group photograph. This was followed by her appointment as a temporary personal assistant at the next European congress. Her duties included direct service: purchasing a special mineral water, pouring tea, on-site logistics. Through this physical access and routine errands, she was given the impression of exceptional closeness to the leader, placing her in a mode of absolute readiness to comply with any demands.
Arye Makarevich Explains the Rules
During the European congress, after an evening lecture, Laitman invited her to his room. She did not come. The following morning, when she tried to approach him and hand him coffee, Laitman reacted aggressively. The instruction to “not let her near him anymore” spread instantly through the inner circle.
At that moment, the entourage activated. Bodyguard and assistant Arye Makarevich calmly explained to her that the married leader “had the right” to such a choice. He added that Laitman had specifically chosen her from a photograph and that he preferred blondes. The violence was fully normalized within the inner circle: assistants acted as accomplices, coolly removing barriers. Katya found herself trapped: refusal meant losing the only connection to the Creator.
This is not a one-off error by an intermediary. The same logic — an intermediary who normalizes the leader’s right and frames refusal as a spiritual violation — is documented in Mona’s testimony as well. Different women, different countries, one mechanism.
Petah Tikva. Night Calls. Fever
The final stage unfolded at the headquarters in Petah Tikva. Laitman intensified the pressure through a series of video calls and invitations to Israel, using an emotional swing method — from elevating attention to complete ignoring.
Night summons to the apartment in Petah Tikva ended in sexual contact. When Katya attempted to invoke religious prohibitions, Laitman simply overrode her with his authority. She did not resist solely because of the fear of permanently losing her connection to the Creator.
The following day she refused to continue. Laitman immediately expelled her. All her access was instantly revoked. By evening she developed a severe physical fever, after which she packed her belongings and fled the headquarters in a panic.
Aftermath. Threats. Silence
Upon returning home, a group representative she had turned to for help advised her not to focus on what had happened and simply to “continue studying,” treating the contact as a spiritual obstacle. Later, Laitman attempted to bring her back through correspondence, suggesting they “move on” as though nothing had occurred. She was offered not protection, but a continuation of her studies.
The break came only after Katya found criticism of the movement on Facebook (the person is identified as M.). For the first time she received an external, non-indoctrinated perspective that proved the spiritual path is separate from Laitman.
When Katya prepared to bring her story into the public domain (in the course of working with journalist Raviv Drucker), the information was leaked to the group. Threats rained down on Katya and her family. Fearing for her safety, she was forced to request that the case not be brought to Israeli court.
What happened next to her complaint fits a documented pattern: complaints that stalled for years — a subject covered in a separate investigation into the silencing of testimonies. Katya’s story is one of three. Mona is the second witness with the same dependency pattern. Olesya is the third: she was raped by both Laitman and MK Hanoch Milwidsky. It was her testimony that a government adviser blocked shortly before the trial.
Katya signed her testimony under her own name. Left her phone and email. Stated her readiness to speak with a journalist. The information was leaked to the organization before the article was published. Threats followed. Israeli police never reached out to her.
Continue reading: Mona’s Testimony — the second documented case of the same pattern: 16 years inside the structure, coercion through intermediaries, an organized discrediting campaign after departure.
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