Tag: Espionage
Sylvia Raphael, former top Mossad agent, honored in Rosh Ha’ayin
On Jan. 22, 2024, old friends, representatives of Israel's South African community and former colleagues gathered in Rosh Ha’ayin for the unveiling of a lane named in honor of former Mossad agent Sylvia Raphael.
Unveiling...
Iran executes four individuals accused of spying for Mossad
Iran executed four people on Friday, including a woman, accused of being "saboteurs" with links to Israel's Mossad intelligence service, said the Mizan news agency affiliated with the judiciary.
The executions added up to a total of...
Ipswich honors British Jewish spy, caught and killed by Nazis
A newly unveiled marble headstone in Ipswich Old Cemetery in West England honors Kurt Erich Glauber, a British MI6 agent, who was Jewish and risked his life operating undercover in his native Austria during...
Iranian prosecutor says regime to put three Mossad agents on trial
Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence detained three suspected Mossad agents in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan—the second-largest province in the country—reported its state news agency IRNA and other Iranian news media on Tuesday.
The prosecutor of...
‘Tehran’ pumps up the adrenaline for a show worth watching
Being a Mossad operative in Iran isn’t a job for the faint of heart. Viewers get a sense of such intensity watching “Tehran” on Apple TV+, a show that will keep them on the...
Shin Bet exposes online Iranian espionage drive targeting Israelis
The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) announced on Monday the uncovering of an Iranian espionage network, which it said worked to track down and recruit Israeli civilians for spy missions and to prepare attacks...
Democratic lawmakers call for sanctions against Israeli cyber firm NSO Group
Eighteen U.S. lawmakers released a letter on Tuesday urging the U.S. Treasury and State Departments to sanction Israeli spyware firm NSO Group for allegedly helping authoritarian regimes commit human-rights violations.
The letter, which also called...
Report: Turkey arrests 15 on suspicion of spying for Israel
Turkish media outlets on Thursday reported that 15 individuals had been arrested on suspicion of spying for Israel, following a large-scale operation by local security forces. According to local reports, 200 members of the...
Arab-Israeli real estate mogul charged with giving information to Iran
Yaqoob Abo Alqean, an Arab-Israeli millionaire, was charged on Monday with contacting a foreign agent for Iran and passing information to the enemy.
According to the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, Alqean was arrested...
Facebook disables PA-linked accounts ‘used for spying’
Facebook announced on Wednesday that it had disabled accounts it said were being used by the Palestinian Authority’s Preventative Security Service (PSS), its internal intelligence organization, to spy on political opponents, journalists and human-rights...