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Blinken denies Washington withheld intelligence from Israel about Hamas

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During congressional testimony on Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken denied that the Biden administration had offered to share additional intelligence with Israel if it refrained from launching a military operation in Rafah,...
A map of a Hamas tunnel network discovered by Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip. Credit: IDF.

65 million files: The intel exposing Hamas tunnels

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The Israel Defense Forces' search for terror tunnels is being aided by a trove of intelligence seized by soldiers, namely 65 million digital files and a half-million physical documents, the IDF disclosed on Thursday. Tasked...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets in Jerusalem with Maj. Gen. Abbas Kamel, the head of Egypt's General Intelligence Directorate, May 30, 2021. Credit: Prime Minister's Office.

Netanyahu denies report Cairo warned of Hamas attack

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday dismissed as “totally fake news” and "absolutely false" reports that the Egyptian spy chief warned him of a major impending Palestinian attack from Gaza. Ynet had reported that Maj. Gen. Abbas...
Col. Y., deputy commander of the IDF's Unit 8200. Credit: Oren Cohen.

‘There is no target that cannot be cracked. Period.’

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The technological breakthroughs and intelligence superiority of the Israel Defense Force’s Unit 8200 position it, and Israel, as a world leader, at the same level as the United States, Russia, or China. However, the...
IDF Lt. Col. G., the first deputy chief of Israel's elite Unit 8200, the Military Intelligence Directorate's main information-gathering unit. Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.

Top IDF intelligence unit gets its first female deputy commander

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The Military Intelligence Directorate on Sunday appointed the first female deputy chief of Unit 8200, the directorate’s main information-gathering unit. Lt. Col. G., who will be promoted to full colonel for her new position, has...
A Hezbollah weapons warehouse adjacent to a school in Lebanon. Source: IDF/Twitter.

IDF exposes Hezbollah weapons warehouse adjacent to Lebanese school

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The Israel Defense Forces revealed a Hezbollah weapons warehouse on Wednesday built in close proximity to a school in Southern Lebanon. On its official Twitter account, the Israeli military said: “Our intelligence can reveal that...
Incoming Mossad head David Barnea (left), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and outgoing Mossad chief Yossi Cohen. Credit: GPO.

Netanyahu names new head of Mossad intelligence agency

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Monday that David Barnea has been selected to serve as the next director of the Mossad intelligence agency, following outgoing head Yossi Cohen. Barnea, 56 and a father...
Israelis in Tel Aviv on March 17, 2021. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Israel’s COVID reproduction rate drops to 0.59

Israel’s coronavirus reproduction rate continues to drop, according to Health Ministry data released on Wednesday, and now stands at 0.59. Of the 41,443 COVID-19 tests that the ministry conducted on Tuesday, 679 came back positive,...
Soldiers in the IDF Military Intelligence's combat unit. Photo: Oren Cohen.

Flying under the radar: The women warriors of Israel’s elite combat intelligence unit

Some four years ago, in typical secrecy, the Israel Defense Forces’ infamous Unit 8200 established its first company of female warriors. The company operates within the framework of 8200’s combat intelligence unit, which meshes...
Maj. Gen. Tamir Hayman, chief of IDF Military Intelligence, at the annual conference of the Institute for National Security Studies, in Tel Aviv, on Jan. 28, 2020. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

New Israeli intelligence-gathering methods see ‘dramatic improvement’ in results

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New methods employed by the Israel Defense Forces’ intelligence-gathering units have led to greater success rates, Maj. Gen. Tamir Hayman, the commander of the IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate (MID), revealed recently. In a new periodical...