Intelligence

Turkey arrests six suspected of spying for Iran, targeted NATO-run air base

The six are suspected of conducting reconnaissance around the NATO-run Incirlik air base in the southeastern Turkish province of Adana.

Demonstrators hold pictures of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a rally in solidarity with Iran's government in Tehran, near the Iranian Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, January 18, 2026
 Andrei Kozlov (left) and Alomg Meir (right) after being rescued by Israeli special forces, June 8, 2024.

IDF spared Gazan terrorists in hopes to locate hostages, senior commander reveals

Protestors burn images of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a rally held in Solidarity with Iran's Uprising, organised by The national Council of Resistance of Iran, on Whitehall in central London on January 11, 2026.

Trump receives intel showing Iran's Islamic regime at weakest point since 1979 revolution - NYT

Protestors burn images of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a rally held in Solidarity with Iran's Uprising, organised by The national Council of Resistance of Iran, on Whitehall in central London on January 11, 2026.

How deeply are Israel's Mossad spymasters involved in Iran protest crisis? - analysis


Listening in: Hezbollah pager attack plans were a decade in the making - report

Exclusive reporting suggests that the communications attack was planned years.

 Mourners gather at the funeral of Hezbollah members Fadel Abbas Bazzi and Ahmad Ali Hassan, after hand-held radios and pagers used by armed group Hezbollah detonated across Lebanon, in Ghobeiry, Beirut southern suburbs, Lebanon September 19, 2024.

'Right to breathe freely': Israeli medical professionals think of hostages on World Lung Day

Israeli Society of Pulmonary Medicine calls on the public to push for hostages' release.

Coffin demonstration in Tel Aviv: the mock funeral for slain Israeli hostages, 5-Sept-2024.

From Ashkelon to Tehran: How Iran works to recruit agents in the heart of Israel

The arrest of 73-year-old Motti Maman from Ashkelon for allegedly spying for Iran, including planning attacks in Israel, was revealed following a joint Shin Bet and police operation.

Ashkelon resident Moti Maman arrested in August on suspicion of working with Iranian intelligence.

Unit 8200 commander resigns: 'Responsibility for 8200's part in failure rests entirely with me'

Brigadier General Yossi Sariel, Unit 8200 commander, resigned following criticism over the October 7 intelligence failure and earlier identity exposure.

 UNIT 8200 soldiers in action – working with data.

Four mid-level IDF intel. officers were set to be promoted, moved to positions of same rank instead

The four were in charge of providing intelligence information on October 7, when IDF intelligence failed to anticipate Hamas’s invasion.

Outgoing commander of the IDF Military Intelligence Aharon Haliva speaks during a replacing ceremony held at the IDF Intelligence Command headquarters in Glilot, August 21, 2024.

US cyber firm blocks Iran reconnaissance efforts to reveal Israel's intel collaborators

Similar operations were used in Arabic to target those affiliated with Syria and Hezbollah intelligence and security agencies. 

 Posts by @MiladAzadihr, a Twitter profile promoting the fake recruitment website topwor4u[.]com in an effort to gather intelligence on possible collaborators of Iran's adversaries, August 28, 2024.

Intel. chief in retirement speech: I will have Oct. 7 on my conscience for rest of my life

The incoming head of the intelligence directorate urged an investigation into the failures of October 7.

Outgoing commander of the IDF Military Intelligence Aharon Haliva speaks during a replacing ceremony held at the IDF Intelligence Command headquarters in Glilot, August 21, 2024.

A phone call led Hezbollah's Fuad Shukr to his death, says Hezbollah official - WSJ

The call that urged Shukr to move to the seventh floor likely came from an individual who had infiltrated Hezbollah’s communications network.

 Protesters, mainly Houthi supporters, hold up posters of assassinated Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr, who was killed in an Israeli strike, as they attend a rally to show solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Sanaa, Yemen August 9, 2024.

Defense, intelligence heads meet with air force pilots, intelligence soldiers over Iran crisis

Both visits by the Defense Minister and the Head of the Intelligence Directorate come amid continuous tensions between Israel, Iran, and Iran's proxy militias.

 Major General Aharon Haliva briefed by soldiers of the Intelligence Directorate, August 6, 2024.

Drama in Israel's defense establishment and the spy satellite array amid war - exclusive

The IDF's oldest spy satellite recently went out of service after 22 years and burned up in the atmosphere. Ofek-5, launched on May 28, 2002, was one of Israel's first operational imaging satellites.

 The Defense Ministry and the Aerospace Industry successfully launched the Ofek 13 satellite into space, March 29, 2023.