Tag: Shin Bet
Analysis: An operation that won’t change Gaza but can offer quiet to the South
On the day that a truce between Israel and the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad group in Gaza took hold, it is clear that last week’s escalation won’t change the Gaza Strip, but it does...
Netanyahu family to be protected by Shin Bet
The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) will take over responsibility for protecting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife and sons, the Ministerial Committee for Shin Bet Affairs decided on Sunday.
The decision comes in response to...
Shin Bet chief warns top officials of potential for violence over judicial reforms
Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) chief Ronen Bar has warned top government officials that the risk of violence over the government’s judicial reform plan is rising, according to Israeli media reports.
Bar spoke with Israeli...
‘Hamas must choose between violence and rebuilding Gaza’
Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza, will not be permitted to continue to pursue a double policy of both rebuilding the Strip and orchestrating terrorism in Judea and Samaria, Israel Security Agency (Shin...
Shin Bet chief meets Egyptian spymaster amid row over Israeli raid
Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) director Ronen Bar traveled to Egypt on Sunday amid an apparent row with Cairo over an Israeli counter-terrorism raid in Judea and Samaria that came less than 48 hours...
IDF’s ‘Operation Breakwater’ curbing Palestinian terrorist activity in Judea and Samaria
Since being launched by the Israel Defense Forces in March this year, “Operation Breakwater,” aimed at stopping a wave of deadly Palestinian terror attacks against Israelis, has significantly dented the motivation and intent of...
Shin Bet busts Jerusalem Hamas cell plotting to assassinate Knesset member
The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and Jerusalem District Police revealed on Tuesday the existence of an eastern Jerusalem Hamas terror cell that had been planning to assassinate Israel public figures.
Among those targeted by...
Two arrested in connection with Elad terror attack
Israeli security forces have captured two suspects in connection with the deadly ax attack in Elad last week, according to a joint statement on Sunday by the Israel Police, Israel Defense Forces and Israel...
Shin Bet agents kill Tel Aviv terrorist in gun battle, ending city-wide manhunt
Israeli security forces on Friday morning killed the terrorist responsible for the deadly shooting attack in central Tel Aviv on Thursday evening, ending a city-wide manhunt.
Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) agents located the terrorist,...
Israeli prime minister: Security forces defused ‘ticking time bomb’ in Jenin
Israeli security forces had diffused a “ticking time bomb” by taking out a terrorist cell in Jenin that had been planning an imminent attack, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Saturday.
The premier made...