Intelligence units rewarded for recent 'successful covert operation'

The Israel Defense Forces grants awards to intelligence units for a recent “successful covert operation.”

A statement from the IDF hails the operation as “significant operational and impressive achievement,” but provides no details on it.

“This mission was a first and significant step on a long path,” Maj. Gen. Tamir Hayman, chief of Military Intelligence, is quoted saying in the statement.

A Channel 13 report on the awards notes a recent cyberattack on Iran’s largest port, which US reports attributed to Israel. The attack came shortly after an alleged Iranian attempt to hack into Israel’s water infrastructure system.