The Israeli Art Student thing was weird. That was at the same time the Israeli movers were seen jumping for joy when the towers fell in New Jersey which then was, and still is, reported as Arabs celebrating 9/11 because the people who called the cops on them said "Middle eastern types" were dancing in the street.
Salon did not break the story but they did have a good run down of them.
http://www.salon.com/2002/05/07/students/My guess is that they were spies. Since MDMA is Kosher in Israel (though illegal but still Kosher) there were then the main smugglers and I think they were trying to get DEA info and then maybe the Israeli Government co-opted them when they found out that they had a passable cover and that NeoCon controlled Bush Administration was never going to really investigate.
For the Movers...Israeli Movers are just dicks. Read their Yelp reviewsd. They have one blanket company that dispatches smaller companies when you hire them so there is no one to complain to. Titus Burgess discovered this, with hilarious results recently.
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/07/13/ti ... elp-reviewBasically he hired Franks Express but then they denied it was them, and it might not have been...technically, but the same five guys probably work for 10 companies and whichever gets the best Yelp Reviews becomes the flag bearer. Dicks like these would totally dance when office workers died.
Another interesting thing on Israel from that era is that the Governor of New Jersey fell for a Honeytrap.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_McGreeveyAppointed a non US Citizen to be Homeland Security Advisor for the State of New Jersey while fucking him. (Cipel denies fucking..so maybe it was heavy petting or less)
So Movers dancing at death and destruction, Fake Art Students who always found Top Secret DEA offices and hung out there and boning a governor of a fairly influential state...Imagine another country doing that? Employing a foriegn national who worked at an Embassy to a position of state security? That is banana republic stuff right there and it all happened back in the early 00s.