Police arrest three more people suspected of spying for Iran

Police and Shin Bet agents have arrested three Israeli citizens in two separate cases on suspicion they carried out tasks for Iranian agents, the agencies say in a statement.

In one investigation, 33-year-old Mark Morgein, who lives in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank, was arrested on suspicion of moving a grenade from a hidden location to another at the request of his handler, who he maintained contact with over the course of June.

Police say he carried out this task with the knowledge that this explosive would be used to harm Israeli citizens.

He also was enlisted to film a video of a missile interception during open war between Israel and Iran and send it to his handler.

Security forces also arrested two Tiberias residents, Yoni Segal, 18, and Nehorai Omri Mizrahi, 20, whom an Iranian agent allegedly tried to recruit into murdering an unnamed Israeli citizen in exchange for hundreds of thousands of shekels.

The agent offered to fly the pair out to another country, train them, and then give them the identity of their target. The plan never came to fruition.

The two are also suspected of filming shopping malls and hospitals across the country and sending their handler information on each mall’s layout, number of security guards and number of stores. They allegedly sent information on malls in Haifa, Tiberias and Tel Aviv, as well as Tel Aviv’s Ichilov hospital.

Today, Lahav 433 police investigators submitted a prosecutor’s declaration ahead of anticipated indictments against the suspects. The Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court has extended the remand of all three by four days, until Thursday.