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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

Israeli intelligence

A live-fire exercise dubbed operation 'Strong Pillar' outside Al-Mawasi, a town on the southern coast of the Gaza Strip, on September 12, 2023. (Hamas via AP)
December 10, 2024, 11:27 am
Report: Hamas mobilized 2,000 men in May 2023 to drill attack, noted lack of IDF response
Channel 12 reports that months before Oct 7, terror group conducted mass exercise that flew under Israel’s radar, giving group confidence in ability to strike Jewish state
By ToI Staff
Iran is upping its cyberwarfare tactics, and is likely to only increase them further regardless of a potential Israel-Hamas ceasefire. (iStock photo/ mirsad sarajlic)
September 11, 2024, 4:51 pm
Iran upped cyberattacks on Israel after Oct. 7. Experts say a ceasefire won’t change that
This year, the Islamic Republic set a new benchmark for its cyber strategy, which extends far beyond the battlefield to include influence operations and intelligence gathering
By DAVID DIMOLFETTA
Smoke billows at the border fence with Israel from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip after some 3,000 Hamas terrorists stormed the border and entered Israel, October 7, 2023. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
December 27, 2023, 10:38 pm
Report: Shin Bet dismissed Gaza source’s tip on plans, timing of major Hamas attack
Source said to have told Israeli agency in the summer that terror group was planning ‘big move’ soon after Yom Kippur but info didn’t reach top brass, was only noticed after Oct. 7
By Michael Bachner
Ilan Evyatar (left) and Yonah Jeremy Bob (right) are the authors of 'Target Tehran.' (Courtesy)
December 13, 2023, 1:09 am
Israel’s (not-so) secret plan to prevent a nuclear Iran and create a new Middle East
For their new book ‘Target Tehran,’ Ilan Evyatar and Yonah Jeremy Bob interview spymasters, prime ministers and US officials on the shadowy means used to stop an existential threat
By JP O’ Malley
A diagram shown on Channel 12 on December 4, 2023, from an IDF report in July 2022, on potential Hamas invasion plans. (Channel 12 screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
December 5, 2023, 2:35 am
More details unveiled of IDF intel on Oct. 7 plans, consults hours before Hamas attack
2 IDF commando companies diverted to West Bank from Gaza border days before onslaught; Sinwar last year publicly hailed Hamas TV dramatization of invasion as ‘what we’re preparing’
By ToI Staff
Buildings destroyed in Israeli strikes on al-Zahra, on the outskirts of Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Ali Mahmoud)
November 8, 2023, 1:50 pm
Gaza man: Israeli agents spent hours on phone with me to evacuate targeted buildings
Mahmoud Shaheen tells BBC intel agents called him, urged him to get hundreds of residents to leave 22 buildings identified by IDF as housing Hamas infrastructure; all said survived
By ToI Staff
A live-fire exercise dubbed operation “Strong Pillar” outside Al-Mawasi, a town on the southern coast of the Gaza Strip, on September 12, 2023. (Hamas via AP)
October 13, 2023, 1:09 pm
Hamas drilled in plain sight, posted video of mock assault weeks before massacre
Israeli intel was caught off-guard by devastating assault; but terror group recently held live-fire exercise blasting through mock wall, raiding mock town
By Agencies
Demonstrators burn representations of Israeli and US flags during the annual Al-Quds Day rally in Tehran, Iran, May 7, 2021 (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
November 30, 2022, 3:46 pm
Iran says 4 sentenced to death for alleged collaboration with Israeli intelligence
Regime-affiliated news agency says ruling issued against ‘network of thugs’ that was ‘kidnapping people’ and ‘stealing and destroying property’
By ToI Staff
The Mossad's new director of intelligence, known as Aleph, is the first women to take on the position. Her appointment was announced on August 18, 2022 (Defense Ministry Spokesperson)
August 18, 2022, 2:02 pm
In firsts, Mossad’s director of intelligence and head of Iran desk are both women
Appointments mark first time women have held two senior positions in spy agency; Mossad chief: ‘Unlimited possibilities’ for women in organization; Bennett: ‘We’re in good hands’
By Ash Obel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with Sultan Qaboos bin Said in Oman on October 26, 2018 (Courtesy)
September 3, 2020, 11:55 am
Security and business: Israel charts potential of ties with 3 more Gulf states
With UAE normalization begun, Intelligence Ministry report says Saudi Arabia interested in ‘military and intelligence cooperation,’ Bahrain and Oman in security and trade relations
By Raphael Ahren
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 burning vehicle at Baghdad International Airport following an airstrike in Baghdad, Iraq, in which Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani was killed January 3, 2020. (Iraqi Prime Minister Press Office via AP)
January 12, 2020, 8:15 am
Israeli intel helped US carry out strike that killed Iran’s Soleimani — report
Information provided by Jewish state confirmed that Quds Force leader was at Baghdad airport before missile strike, NBC News reports
By ToI Staff
Picture taken in January 2019 at Chile's Antarctic base President Eduardo Frei, in Antarctica, showing a Chilean Air Force C-130 Hercules cargo plane as the one that disappeared in the sea between the southern tip of South America and Antarctica on December 9, 2019 with 38 people aboard. (Photo by Javier TORRES / AFP)
December 15, 2019, 11:20 am
Israeli military helped find remains of crashed Chilean plane near Antarctica
IDF’s visual intelligence unit formed a team of experts that interpreted aerial images of the Pacific and pinpointed area where C-130 Hercules vanished with 38 on board last week
By Michael Bachner and AP
Russian journalist Yulia Yuzik, arrested in Tehran in October 2019. (YouTube screenshot)
October 7, 2019, 3:20 pm
Iran says Russian journalist held over visa issue, not Israel spy claim
Family members and the Russian media had said Yulia Yuzik was arrested on suspicion of spying on the Islamic Republic on behalf of Israel
By ToI Staff and Agencies
The Emirati-flagged oil tanker A. Michel, May 13, 2019, one of four ships damaged in what Gulf officials called a 'sabotage' attack off the coast of the United Arab Emirates. (UAE National Media Council via AP)
June 3, 2019, 11:07 pm
Mossad intelligence helped link Iran to UAE tanker sabotage — report
US said set to present evidence on ‘pretty impressive’ attack — including materials gathered by Israel — to UN Security Council
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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