Tag: Espionage
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...
‘I don’t regret helping my people and my land’
On Nov. 21, 1985, at 10 a.m., Jonathan Pollard and his then-wife arrive at the Israeli Embassy in Washington. He still recalls what happened in those moments, second by second, as if they had...
Report: Hamas cleans house in wake of high-level defection
Whether it was a senior commander in Hamas’s elite naval commando force who defected to Israel, as initially reported on Sunday, or merely a junior officer in the unit as was subsequently reported, the incident still...
US Defense Department charges linguist working overseas with espionage
A linguist who worked for the U.S. Department of Defense was charged on Wednesday with espionage for allegedly transmitting highly sensitive classified national defense information to a foreign national with apparent connections to the U.S.-designated terrorist...
Sinem Tezyapar: A case of profound injustice
At the outset, let me state that I have never met Sinem Tezyapar. Tezyapar, a Muslim woman from Turkey who believes in a better and more peaceful world, stands accused of being a spy...
Two Iranians plead guilty to spying on the United States
Two Iranians have pleaded guilty to spying on America.
Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen, and Majid Ghorbani, an Iranian citizen living in California, pleaded guilty to collecting intelligence on the Rohr Chabad House at the University...
Trump: ‘I don’t believe Israel is spying on US’
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he doesn’t believe that Israel is spying on the United States.
“I don’t think the Israelis are spying on us. I really would find that hard to...
Israel caught Iranian spy in West Bank in April
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...
Former Israeli minister sentenced to 11 years in prison for spying for Iran
The Jerusalem District Court sentenced former Israeli minister Gonen Segev to 11 years in prison on Tuesday for spying for Iran.
As part of a plea deal, Segev admitted to spying for Iran for five...