Police and the Shin Bet security service announce they recently thwarted a plot by five Arab Israeli citizens to carry out a car-bombing attack at Tel Aviv’s Azrieli Mall, under the banner of the ISIS terror group.
The five residents of Taybeh in central Israel formed a terror cell allied to ISIS, the fanatical terror group that originated in Iraq and Syria.
The five were arrested after a month-long clandestine investigation and will face charges in the coming days. The cell’s leaders were named as Mahmoud Azam and Ibrahim Sheik Yousef. They recruited three others — Sajed Masarwa, Abdullah Baransi and Abdel Kareem Baransi
Police and the Shin Bet say the five studied terror attacks in Syria and discussed the amount of explosives needed to bring down the iconic Azrieli towers. They say Azam and Yousef were in contact with foreign ISIS agents and planned to travel abroad to meet with ISIS operatives.
They say the plan was uncovered with the help of “precise and effective intelligence operations,” and was stopped in its preliminary stages.
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