Israel Rocked by Revelations of More Israelis Indicted for Spying for Iran

October 31, 2024

3:49 PM

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The Israel Police and Shin Bet announced on Thursday that they had indicted a couple from the central city of Lod. Rafael and Lala Guliyev, both in their early 30s, on suspicion that they had passed information to Iranian intelligence agents. The information included surveillance data on national infrastructure sites as well as the personal movements of an academic figure that Iran was allegedly considering for assassination. This is just the latest case of Israelis recruited to spy for Iran in recent weeks, but a few hours later, there was another case announced.

This was one Asher Binyamin Weiss of Bnei Brak, who was indicted last week on suspicion of activities that involved tracking a nuclear scientist who Iran wanted to try and assassinate. The arrests of the Guliyevs and Weiss were a result of the investigation into another alleged Iranian spy ring in the country.

A Shin Bet official said the investigation revealed “once again the efforts of the Iranian intelligence agencies to recruit and exploit Israeli citizens in order to promote espionage and terrorist activity in Israel.”

Prosecutors added that the suspects are believed to have “committed security offenses at a time when Israel is fighting one of the most difficult wars it has ever known, on many fronts, including Iran. They were aware of being agents of entities hostile to Israel and nonetheless continued to cooperate with them.”

A police source said the force will work relentlessly “against those conscienceless criminals who cooperate with the enemy and endanger the Israeli public.”

In addition to stalking an academic from Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies think tank, the Guliyev's also allegedly took photographs and video of the Moldovan consulate in Tel Aviv, Israel Electric Corporation sites, the Haifa Port, a water pumping state in Hadera, public bomb shelters in Tel Aviv and graves of victims of Hamas’s October 7 massacre, as well as other sites of interest to their Iranian handlers.

They are alleged to have received a total of $26,000 fot their services. Weiss also received several thousand dollars in cryptocurrency for the work he did.

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