Netanyahu says Israel foiled ‘dozens and dozens’ of global terror attacks

6 March 2018, 5:09 pm

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Netanyahu tells AIPAC that “in the last few years, Israel’s security agencies have foiled dozens, dozens and dozes of terror attacks in dozens of countries around the world.”

“Isreal not only protects Israeli lives, it protects innocent lives around the world,” he says.

Last month, the IDF revealed that its Military Intelligence Unit 8200 foiled an attempt by the Islamic State jihadist group to bomb a flight from Australia in August.

The revelation was an unusual move for the Israeli army, which generally keeps mum on the operations of the secretive Unit 8200, which is similar to the American National Security Agency. It collects information from electronic communication, also referred to as signals intelligence.