On Thursday, the Israeli newspaper Israel Hume revealed that Iran had tried to recruit Moshe Bogi Ya’alon, the former Minister of Defense and Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army.
The newspaper said: Yalon realized that the story was a prey and informed Shin Bet and that was the end of the story.
The newspaper reported that Shin Bet had recently revealed “the activities of Iranian intelligence agencies against academics and former Israeli officials in the security and military institutions.”
He pointed out: Iranian parties, under the guise of academics, journalists and businessmen, used the real identities of foreign parties to reach these Israelis.
He said Iran’s efforts to send fake emails were similar to the personal emails of a prominent Swiss security researcher, and that he had used his personal emails to send invitations to Israelis to attend an international conference in Munich. The abduction of these prominent Israelis.
Israeli army radio, for its part, noted that “a large number of those invited were actually planning to travel outside of Israel.”
In December, Israel announced it had disbanded an Iranian spy network that had recruited Israeli women to gather classified information.
On November 18, Israeli security services arrested a cleaning worker at the home of Defense Minister Bani Gantz for his contact with an Iranian-linked source.
Source: Lebanon Debate
