Israel said on Thursday that it caught a Jordanian businessman spying on behalf of Iran in Israel earlier this year, including in the West Bank.
Thaer Shafut, 32, was in the West Bank last year “on behalf of Iranian intelligence to carry out missions that were meant to establish a network in Israel and the West Bank, which would be used for covert operations for the Iranians,” according to the Shin Bet.
The Shin Bet said that Shafut was to “recruit spies who would help collect intelligence for Iranian interests.”
He was apprehended in April, but this development was censored by the military until Thursday.
He was charged on June 10 with “contacting a foreign agent, contacting an enemy organization and attempting to bring enemy funds into the region,” reported The Times of Israel.