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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 588

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The NSO Group company logo is displayed on a wall of a building next to a branch in southern Israel on February 8, 2022. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
Israel’s NSO ordered to pay Meta $168 million for using WhatsApp to plant spyware
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Six-year lawsuit ends with defeat for Israeli firm; reveals multimillion dollar price tag paid by European, American agencies that used software to hack suspects’ devices
The NSO Group company logo is displayed on a wall of a building next to a branch in southern Israel on February 8, 2022. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
May 7, 2025, 11:02 am
Israel’s NSO ordered to pay Meta $168 million for using WhatsApp to plant spyware
Six-year lawsuit ends with defeat for Israeli firm; reveals multimillion dollar price tag paid by European, American agencies that used software to hack suspects’ devices
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks while US President Donald Trump listens before a meeting at the Palace Hotel during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly on September 20, 2017, in New York. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)
April 11, 2025, 8:40 pm
PA invites US to verify that controversial prisoner payment system no longer in place
After US expressed skepticism, top Abbas aide sends letter to Rubio encouraging Trump delegation to come to Ramallah after June 1 and certify new welfare system up and running
By Jacob Magid
Still image from a November 2010 video showing Robert Levinson, which was received by his family. (YouTube: Help Bob Levinson)
March 25, 2025, 7:32 pm
US sanctions 3 Iranian officials linked to death of ex-FBI agent Robert Levinson
Treasury department says the three, who work in Tehran’s Ministry of Intelligence, all played a role in Levinson’s abduction, detention and probable death
By Agencies
Palestinian security forces gather at the site of a protest against clashes between Palestinian security forces and terror groups in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on December 21, 2024. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)
March 19, 2025, 4:05 pm
US sharpens tone against PA, but funds for its security forces continue
After welcoming Abbas decree ending pay-to-slay, State Department demands ‘actions’; CIA still sending money to security forces, US assures Ramallah rest of aid will return after review
By Jacob Magid and Nurit Yohanan
US President Donald Trump holds a signed an executive order regarding the declassification and release of records relating to the assassinations of former president John F. Kennedy, senator Robert F. Kennedy and reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., in the Oval Office of the White House, January 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
January 24, 2025, 5:52 am
Trump orders release of classified documents on assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK
US president vows ‘everything will be revealed;’ gives pen he signed executive order with to RFK Jr., whose dad was killed in 1968 by Palestinian angered by his support for Israel
By AP
This undated image provided by the Guam Department of Corrections shows Asif William Rahman. (Guam Department of Corrections via AP)
January 17, 2025, 11:37 pm
CIA employee pleads guilty to leaking classified intel on Israel’s plans to strike Iran
Asif William Rahman admits he illegally downloaded, printed and distributed classified information on several occasions; sentencing is scheduled for May
By Reuters and ToI Staff
This undated image provided by the Guam Department of Corrections shows Asif William Rahman. (Guam Department of Corrections via AP)
December 12, 2024, 1:44 am
CIA analyst accused of leaking Israeli plan to attack Iran ordered held pending trial
Prosecutor says Asif Rahman — whose actions posed a ‘danger to human life’ — was motivated by ideology, and had a to-do list with categories labeled ‘contingencies’ and ‘run’
By Matthew Barakat
US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift performs at the Groupama Stadium as part of The Eras Tour, in Decines-Charpieu, eastern France, June 2, 2024. (Jeff Pachoud / AFP)
August 29, 2024, 5:05 pm
Foiled Taylor Swift concert plot aimed to kill ‘tens of thousands,’ says CIA official
Austrian teen radicalized by Islamic State prepared explosives, knives to attack 30,000 Swifties who had been expected outside pop star’s aborted Vienna show
By STEFANIE DAZIO
File: Graduate students take part in a parade in support of the Houthi rebel group in Sanaa, Yemen, June 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)
June 10, 2024, 10:31 pm
Yemen’s Houthis claim to nab US-Israeli spy network using aid agencies as cover
Iran-backed rebels say CIA-linked ring carried out espionage activities for years, a week after they announced arrest of 11 UN staff as part of crackdown on non-government bodies
By Agencies
FILE - This April 13, 2016 file photo shows the seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
January 13, 2024, 8:49 am
CIA said to have established task force to locate top Hamas leaders, hostages
New York Times says some in Washington pressing Israel to pivot from all-out war on Hamas to focus on killing top leaders; US intelligence gives new priority to monitoring Hamas
By ToI Staff
File: Mossad chief David Barnea speaks during the opening ceremony of the Eli Cohen Museum in Herzliya, December 12, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
December 18, 2023, 4:18 pm
Mossad chief meets Qatari PM, CIA director in Warsaw for hostage talks
Renewed Israeli interest in 2nd deal comes after three hostages were mistakenly killed by IDF in Gaza; sources familiar with negotiations warn of ‘long, complicated’ process ahead
By ToI Staff
FILE - This April 13, 2016 file photo shows the seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
November 29, 2023, 2:36 pm
CIA issues guidelines after senior official shares pro-Palestinian post
Reports say agency’s associate deputy director for analysis had posted a picture of a man waving a Palestinian flag on social media, but has not been disciplined
By ToI Staff
File: Undated image of Palestinian Authority security forces with the Fatah flag. (Hamas-affiliated al-Aqsa TV channel)
July 27, 2023, 7:06 pm
Senior PA security official: Hamas, PIJ recruiting youth ‘with nothing to live for’
Brigadier general says Palestinians being paid to target settlers and IDF; says he urged CIA to push Israel to combat settler violence, approve more permits, in order to flip trend
By Jacob Magid
File: US Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns speaks at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia, July 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
July 1, 2023, 12:15 pm
CIA director traveled to Ukraine, met with Zelensky and intelligence counterparts
Washington Post says Ukrainian officials shared plans with Burns to claw back Russian-occupied territory, begin ceasefire negotiations by end of year
By AFP
Then-US president Donald Trump, left, reacts to a reporter's question ahead of a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Benjamin Netanyahu, right, at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on May 22, 2017. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)
June 10, 2023, 4:25 am
Donald Trump’s troubled history with secrets, including Israel’s
Ex-president, now twice indicted, was openly disdainful of US intelligence community, and careless with info he learned in briefings, including intel from Israel divulged to Russia
By Paul Handley
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