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Mossad chief David Barnea speaks at a ceremony recognizing the agency’s 2025 achievements, April 27, 2026. (Courtesy)
April 28, 2026, 2:15 pm
Mossad chief says agency’s operations penetrated ‘core’ of Iran, Lebanon secrets
Barnea commends 10 operations and projects for outstanding achievements in 2025, notes that cooperation with the military had ‘changed Israel’s strategic posture’
By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
From left: Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, Mossad chief David Barnea and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi at a Holocaust Day ceremony on May 5, 2024. (Haim Goldberg/Flash90)
November 7, 2024, 11:25 pm
MKs push bill to create new intelligence oversight body under Netanyahu
Ministerial Committee for Legislation set to discuss proposal despite ongoing leak scandal at the Prime Minister’s Office
By Sam Sokol
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks on his cell phone during a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels, on July 20, 2020. (John Thys, Pool Photo via AP, File)
May 26, 2022, 12:46 pm
Spain set to strengthen oversight of secret services after NSO spying scandal
PM Sanchez, who was targeted by Pegasus spyware, says move is about ‘ensuring maximum respect for the individual and political rights of people’
By AFP
Then-economy minister Eli Cohen at a meeting in Tel Aviv, April 1, 2019. (Flash90)
August 16, 2020, 1:30 am
Citing Europe’s dark past, minister calls for concerted sanctions on Tehran
Amid discussions over expiring arms embargo, Eli Cohen says Iran should be kicked out of the United Nations
By Raphael Ahren
A handout photo made available by the Russian Foreign Ministry on May 10, 2017 shows US President Donald J. Trump (C) speaking with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) and Russian Ambassador to the US Sergei Kislyak during a meeting at the White House in Washington, DC. (HO / RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY / AFP)
September 9, 2019, 8:36 pm
US reportedly extracted spy from Moscow over fear of Trump spilling beans
CNN reports that officials were spooked after president shared classified information on Israeli operation in Syria with Russian officials in 2017
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Palestinians and anti-Israel Jewish groups stage a rally walking from Times Square to the United Nations Building in New York, September 15, 2011, calling to end all US aid to Israel, end the occupation and support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. (AP Photo/David Karp)
From the WebMarch 1, 2019, 3:42 pm
How a private Israeli intel firm spied on US pro-Palestinian activists
Private spy companies employing ex-IDF intelligence soldiers are working to silence BDS proponents on American college campuses, New Yorker reports
Illustrative image of robots and artificial intelligence (AI) (Phonlamai iStock by Getty Images)
February 7, 2019, 10:23 pm
Israel needs new laws to limit intel services’ powers to eavesdrop online — IDI
Israel Democracy Institute points to paucity of legal controls over online spying by intelligence services, calls for more regulation, transparency, to protect human rights
By Sue Surkes
Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, foreground, and US Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette, during a meeting in Jerusalem, January 16, 2019. (Energy Ministry)
January 16, 2019, 3:52 pm
Chinese investment in Israel could harm intelligence ties, US official warns
On Israel visit, deputy energy secretary says Washington wants Jerusalem to better screen foreign investments, especially from the Chinese
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Gen. Col. Igor Korobov, the head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, speaks during a news conference in the Russian Defense Ministry's headquarters in Moscow, Russia, on August 25, 2017. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
November 22, 2018, 12:53 pm
Igor Korobov, head of Russia’s GRU spy agency, dies at 62
Korobov headed body accused of hacking 2016 US presidential campaign, undertaking nerve agent attack on Russian ex-spy in Britain, disrupting anti-doping efforts in world sports
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA
Yahya and Khaled Yousef, family members of Mohammed Yousef, who stabbed three Israelis, killing one. They are pictured in the village of Kobar in the West Bank on July 29, 2018 (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)
July 31, 2018, 12:55 pm
Israel questioned Adam stabber 2 years ago over Facebook posts, family says
Shin Bet security service declines to confirm if Mohammed Yousef, terrorist who killed Yotam Ovadia last week, was summoned to a meeting at its offices
By Adam Rasgon
Canadian data analytics expert and whistle-blower, Christopher Wylie poses for photographs outside a press conference in London on March 26, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Tolga AKMEN)
March 27, 2018, 6:20 pm
Whistleblower: Cambridge Analytica used Israeli firm to hack Nigerian president
In testimony to UK parliament, ex-Cambridge Analyica employee Christopher Wylie alleges data obtained by Black Cube was used in anti-Muslim campaign videos
By Tamar Pileggi
Graffiti reading 'Arabs out' and 'price tag' is sprayed on a wall in the Arab town of Abu Ghosh, near Jerusalem, on June 9, 2016 (photo credit: Israel Police)
June 19, 2017, 8:41 am
Security chiefs ask settler rabbis to ‘calm’ hilltop youth
Parley follows uptick in anti-Arab hate crimes seen as protests against restraining orders on far-right activists
By Sue Surkes
Former head of the Mossad, Shabtai Shavit, attends a press conference organized by 'Commanders for Israel's Security' in Tel Aviv on January 15, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 17, 2017, 5:10 pm
Former Israeli spymasters rip into Trump, say Israel must reassess intel sharing
Ex-Mossad head Shavit: US president is like a ‘bull in a china shop… If tomorrow I were asked to pass information to the CIA, I would do everything I could to not pass it to them’
By Judah Ari Gross
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands during a joint press conference at the White House in Washington, DC on February 15, 2017. (Saul Loeb/AFP)
May 17, 2017, 12:00 pm
Israeli intelligence source: We must reassess what info we share with US – report
‘We can’t hand over our crown jewels,’ an official says following allegations that US president relayed sensitive Israeli information to Russia
By Jacob Magid
A recruitment riddle posted on the website of the Shin Bet security agency (screen capture)
April 30, 2017, 6:40 pm
Shin Bet looking for recruits who can crack cyber-riddle
Only 6 people of 60,000 have so far figured out puzzle, a prerequisite for applying for job as cyberspy at the domestic intelligence agency
By ToI Staff
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