Tag: Shin Bet
Israel busts Hamas money-laundering operation
Israeli security forces arrested three Palestinian Authority residents on Tuesday night as part of a crackdown against a Hamas scheme used to transfer funds between the Gaza Strip, and Judea and Samaria.
According to the...
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...
Rafi Eitan, founder of Israeli intelligence community, passes away at 92
Former top Mossad spy Rafi Eitan, who led the team that captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann and was the personal handler of Jonathan Pollard, died on Saturday at the age of 92.
Eitan, who...
Hamas recruiting Palestinian operatives in Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem via TV codes
The Shin Bet security agency on Wednesday revealed that a secret Hamas unit in the Gaza strip had tried to recruit Palestinians in Judea and Samaria, as well as eastern Jerusalem, for terrorist activity...
Israel reveals: Hamas exploits ill Palestinians for terrorism
Hamas’s military wing has grown more sophisticated in recruiting personnel for its terrorist networks in Judea and Samaria, Israel’s Shin Bet security agency revealed.
In an unusually detailed statement, the agency said on Thursday that...
Shin Bet head tells Knesset committee it prevented 1,000-plus terror attacks this year
Israel’s Shin Bet security services prevented more than 1,000 terror attacks in the last year, according to a report by director Nadav Argaman to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
“We’ve thwarted 480 terror...
‘Bombs would have destroyed buses, cafes,’ says battalion commander who raided Hamas terror cell
Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, the Shin Bet, announced on Sunday that it had broken up a major Hamas terrorist cell that was forming in the West Bank Palestinian city of Nablus.
The Shin Bet described...
As deal with Palestinians remains unlikely, Israel should defend its own interests, says former...
In the absence of a realistic opportunity to reach a peace deal with the Palestinian Authority in the coming years, Israel should begin formulating its own policies on how to defend its interests, the...