(September 9, 2026)
British intelligence has been given assurances by its Israeli counterpart that information sharing with the UK will continue as before, Ed Miliband, the foreign secretary, has said.
(September 9, 2026)
British intelligence has been given assurances by its Israeli counterpart that information sharing with the UK will continue as before, Ed Miliband, the foreign secretary, has said.
(December 27, 2022)
Haaretz continued:
Twenty years on, this is no longer the stuff of movies: Toka‘s tech allows clients to do just that and moreânot just diverting a live feed but also altering old feeds and erasing any evidence of a covert op.
Technical documents reviewed by an ethical hacker prove that Toka‘s tech can alter both live and recorded video feedsâall without leaving any forensics or telltale signs of a hack (in contrast to NSO‘s Pegasus spyware, or Intellexa‘s Predator, which leave a digital fingerprint on targeted devices).
7:11 PM · Jul 21, 2026
12:49 AM · Jul 22, 2026
The House on Tuesday approved a procedural vote to advance the $1.15 trillion 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a section to further integrate the US and Israeli militaries, a plan that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said was his idea.
The rule to allow floor debate and a vote on the NDAA and several pieces of legislation passed in a 214-211 vote, and a final vote on the Houseâs version of the NDAA is expected to take place on Wednesday. The procedural step came after the House Rules Committee denied a vote on an amendment introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to strip Section 219, the Israeli integration plan, from the bill.
Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked the advancement of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, citing President Trumpâs war with Iran, which continues to rage following the collapse of the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding.
The NDAA would provide the Pentagon with over $1.1 trillion in funding as part of the White Houseâs plan for a $1.5 trillion military budget for 2027, a nearly 50% increase from this year. The bill also includes an amendment, Section 1217, to further merge the US and Israeli militaries under a plan being pushed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
A procedural vote of 50-46 fell well short of the 60 votes that it needed to advance the NDAA. Every Democrat, except two who werenât present for the vote â Senators Jon Fetterman (PA) and Alex Padilla (CA) â voted against advancing the sprawling military spending bill.
(July 13, 2026)
The House provision, which has a Senate version known as Section 1217, would also forbid the president of the United States from limiting intelligence collaboration with Israel over its human rights abuses. If the President ever wants to limit such collaboration, he or she must tell Congress and can only cite American national security as a basis.
In other words, these bills would connect the US and Israeli militaries in unprecedented ways and make it exceedingly difficult for any future president to unwind this partnership with a foreign government.
(June 16, 2026)
Buried in the US$1.15 trillion National Defense Authorization Act is a provision that would deepen US military cooperation with Israel while walling that cooperation off from further congressional oversight.
Section 219 (formerly section 224) creates the role of an âexecutive agentâ focused on folding Israeli technology into US weapons programs, and vice versa, including in missile and air defense technologies as well as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, cyberwarfare, and autonomous systems. Once implemented, the provision would speed efforts to embed Israeli technologies into US weapons systems in ways almost never codified into law, even for allies. As the protracted experience with unwinding Turkish participation in the F-35 program shows, practically, integration binds the United States to rely on producers in ways that become next to impossible to walk back later, even if lawmakers want to.
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Section 219 also calls for âdata fusion.â In defense doctrine, data fusion means combining feeds from many sensors and intelligence sources into a single targeting picture. The United States would be absorbing Israeli data, which may have been collected under problematic mass surveillance programs. Moreover, section 219 would be reinforced by section 622 of the intelligence appropriations bill, which mandates intelligence sharing and would further promote combining US intelligence streams with Israeli ones that could then be used by the Israeli military for targeting.
(November 30, 2023)
The document circulated widely among Israeli military and intelligence leaders, but experts determined that an attack of that scale and ambition was beyond Hamasâs capabilities, according to documents and officials. It is unclear whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or other top political leaders saw the document, as well.
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Last year, shortly after the document was obtained, officials in the Israeli militaryâs Gaza division, which is responsible for defending the border with Gaza, said that Hamasâs intentions were unclear.
âIt is not yet possible to determine whether the plan has been fully accepted and how it will be manifested,â read a military assessment reviewed by The Times.
(November 30, 2023)
The document circulated widely among Israeli military and intelligence leaders, but experts determined that an attack of that scale and ambition was beyond Hamasâs capabilities, according to documents and officials. It is unclear whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or other top political leaders saw the document, as well.
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Last year, shortly after the document was obtained, officials in the Israeli militaryâs Gaza division, which is responsible for defending the border with Gaza, said that Hamasâs intentions were unclear.
âIt is not yet possible to determine whether the plan has been fully accepted and how it will be manifested,â read a military assessment reviewed by The Times.
(December 24, 2025)
The Knesset approved a one-year extension of a temporary order that authorizes the IDF and Shin Bet security service to hack into private security cameras without their owners‘ knowledge.
Although the temporary order originally stipulated that hacking into cameras would only be done in cases related to „significant military activities,“ the current proposal eliminated this condition so that the order would not be dependent on the state of war. However, the grounds for activating the order were reduced.
Ten Knesset members voted in favor of the order in the third and final vote, with no opponents.
(December 24, 2025)
Israelâs Knesset approved a one-year extension of a temporary order allowing the Israeli military and Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet to hack into private security cameras without ownersâ knowledge, Haaretz reported.
The original order limited such access to cases involving âsignificant military activities.â
The updated legislation removed this restriction, allowing the order to be used regardless of a state of war, while narrowing the grounds for its activation. In the third and final vote, ten Knesset members supported the measure and none opposed it.
(today)
The scale of intelligence gathering at the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) prompted the US commander of the base, Lt Gen Patrick Frank, to summon an Israeli counterpart for a meeting to tell him that ârecording has to stop hereâ.
Staff and visitors from other countries have also raised concerns about Israel recording inside the CMCC. Some have been told to avoid sharing sensitive information because of the risk it could be collected and exploited.
The US military declined to comment when asked about Israeli surveillance activities. The Israeli military declined to comment on Frankâs demand to halt recording and noted that conversations inside the CMCC are unclassified.
Microsoft has terminated the Israeli armyâs access to technology it was using to store vast troves of intelligence on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza, the tech giant informed Israelâs Defense Ministry in a letter late last week, according to the Guardian.
The decision followed an exposĂ© last month by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian revealing how Unit 8200, the Israeli armyâs elite cyber warfare agency, was housing intercepted recordings of millions of mobile phone calls by Palestinians on Microsoftâs cloud platform, Azure, creating one of the worldâs most intrusive collections of surveillance data over a single population group. According to the joint investigation, this data has been used over the past two years to plan lethal airstrikes in Gaza, as well as to arrest Palestinians in the West Bank.
The decision to cut off Unit 8200âs ability to use some of its technology results directly from an investigation published by the Guardian last month. It revealed how Azure was being used to store and process the trove of Palestinian communications in a mass surveillance programme.
In a joint investigation with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call, the Guardian revealed how Microsoft and Unit 8200 had worked together on a plan to move large volumes of sensitive intelligence material into Azure.
Der Vernichtungskrieg gegen die Hamas und Gaza sei alternativlos und aus Notwehr erfolgt, behauptet Israels MinisterprĂ€sident Netanjahu. Was aber, wenn sich der Terroranschlag vom 7. Oktober 2023 hĂ€tte verhindern lassen? Vieles spricht dafĂŒr, dass seine rechtsgerichtete Regierung die Dinge hat geschehen lassen. MĂŒsste die Geschichte dann nicht umgeschrieben werden, fragt sich Ralf Wurzbacher.
(August 12, 2025)
Following the Chain of Command
When HRF investigators began reconstructing the strike, they followed the trail from the moment a drone camera locked onto Al-Sharifâs position to the instant the missile hit.
Using operational patterns, signals intelligence reports, and expert military analysis, the foundation identified the chain of command behind the killing:
– Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir â IDF Chief of the General Staff
– Maj.-Gen. Tomer Bar â Commander of the Israeli Air Force
– Maj.-Gen. Yaniv Asor â Southern Command Commander
– Brig.-Gen. Yossi Sariel â Former Commander of Unit 8200 (Israelâs signals intelligence branch)
– General A. : Current Commander of Unit 8200
– Palmachim Airbase Commander â Name undisclosed
– âBlack Snakeâ Squadron Commander â Name undisclosed
– Col. Avichay Adraee â IDF Spokespersonâs Unit, Arab Media Division, responsible for a sustained smear campaign against Al-Sharif
At the political summit stands Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister who presided overâand encouragedâa strategy to eliminate journalists as part of Israelâs assault on Gaza.
Unit 8200, roughly equivalent in function to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), has transferred audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians in the occupied territories onto Microsoftâs cloud computing platform, Azure, operationalizing what is likely one of the worldâs largest and most intrusive collections of surveillance data over a single population group. This is according to interviews with 11 Microsoft and Israeli intelligence sources in addition to a cache of leaked internal Microsoft documents obtained by the Guardian.
In a meeting at Microsoftâs headquarters in Seattle in late 2021, the then-head of Unit 8200, Yossi Sariel, won the support of the tech giantâs CEO, Satya Nadella, to develop a customized and segregated area within Azure that has facilitated the armyâs mass surveillance project. According to the sources, Sariel approached Microsoft because the scope of Israelâs intelligence on millions of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza is so vast that it cannot be stored on military servers alone.
(November 30, 2023)
The document circulated widely among Israeli military and intelligence leaders, but experts determined that an attack of that scale and ambition was beyond Hamasâs capabilities, according to documents and officials. It is unclear whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or other top political leaders saw the document, as well.
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Last year, shortly after the document was obtained, officials in the Israeli militaryâs Gaza division, which is responsible for defending the border with Gaza, said that Hamasâs intentions were unclear.
âIt is not yet possible to determine whether the plan has been fully accepted and how it will be manifested,â read a military assessment reviewed by The Times.
(12. November 2016)
Kontext B.N.D.-Gesetz: Die Allermeisten haben weder eine Ahnung was TotalĂŒberwachung aka MassenĂŒberwachung tatsĂ€chlich bedeutet, noch welcher Gefahr auch sie dabei ausgesetzt sind, selbst wenn sie sich noch so sehr anpassen und die technischen Möglichkeiten im 21. Jahrhundert ĂŒber den privaten Konsum hinaus ignorieren. Welche Skrupellosigkeit und geistig-moralischen Verfall die Apparatschiks des elektronischen Polizeistaats bei ihrem Tun an den Tag legen, wĂ€hrend gleichzeitig seit Jahren regulĂ€re Polizei, Justiz und Rechtsstaat systemisch verschwinden, zeigen Berichte von Aussteigern, allerdings nicht aus Deutschland.
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Aus Interviews mit AussteigerInnen der mutmaĂlich eng mit den Mitgliedern und Mitgliedern der âTechnischen AufklĂ€rungâ des Bundesnachrichtendienstes eingebetteten israelischen Einheit 8200, veröffentlicht im âGuardianâ im September 2014:
âIch nahm eine Funktion an, in der Leute ÂŽZieleÂŽ genannt wurden, und diese Leute die uns wirklich interessieren sind in keinem Sinne Terroristen, sondern eher generell normale Menschen â die uns interessieren wegen ihrer Funktionen, so dass wir mehr Geheimdienstinformationen ĂŒber sie bekommen können und mehr Zugang erzielen. Wir nutzen unsere Möglichkeiten ĂŒber diese Menschen zu unserem Vorteil, um es uns leicht zu machen. Wir nutzen die Einwirkung / die Wucht (âimpact) die wir auf deren Leben haben. Manchmal beinhaltet dies das Leben, oder die Seele einer Person wirklich zu verletzen. Ich meine Erpressung, bei Dingen die sie vor Leuten um sich herum verbergen mĂŒssen. Ich kann Menschen wirklich das Leben zerstören. Es gab mir das GefĂŒhl omnipotent zu sein.
(12.9.2014)
I assumed a role in which people are called âtargetsâ, and those people who really interest us are in no sense terrorists, but rather generally normative people â who interest us because of their roles, so that we can obtain more intelligence and achieve greater access. We take advantage of the capabilities that we have over these people in order to put ourselves at ease. We take advantage of the impact that we have on their lives. Sometimes it involves truly harming a personâs life, or their soul. I mean extortion whereby they must hide things from people around them. It can really screw up their lives. It made me feel omnipotent.
Images that briefly circulated in Hebrew-language mediaâbefore being swiftly removedâshow the impact site belonged to Israelâs military intelligence. The visuals confirm that a highly sensitive security installation was directly hit.
According to Hebrew media sources, there is a strong possibility that secret backup sites linked to Israelâs Unit 8200âan elite electronic surveillance and intelligence divisionâwere completely destroyed in Herzliya.
The New York Times found that the broad contours of the plan were first discussed in late 2023, at private meetings of like-minded officials, military officers and business people with close ties to the Israeli government.
The group called itself the Mikveh Yisrael Forum, after a college where members convened in December 2023. Its leading figures gradually settled on the idea of hiring private contractors to distribute food in Gaza, circumventing the United Nations.
The planning documents anticipated public skepticism and preemptively prepared talking points in case the GHF encountered allegations likening its food distribution hubs and residential compounds to ââconcentration campsâ with biometricsâ or comparing the organization to Blackwater, a former U.S. mercenary firm implicated in violence against civilians in Iraq.
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In mid-2024, Israeli officials shared their plans with a group of private-sector American consultants led by Phil Reilly, a retired CIA paramilitary officer and former agency station chief in Afghanistan. Reillyâs group, said five of the Israeli and American individuals, took over the planning and determined that a new company led by Reilly, named Safe Reach Solutions, would be the future subcontractor that would provide security and logistics for the hubs.
(November 30, 2023)
The document circulated widely among Israeli military and intelligence leaders, but experts determined that an attack of that scale and ambition was beyond Hamasâs capabilities, according to documents and officials. It is unclear whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or other top political leaders saw the document, as well.
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Last year, shortly after the document was obtained, officials in the Israeli militaryâs Gaza division, which is responsible for defending the border with Gaza, said that Hamasâs intentions were unclear.
âIt is not yet possible to determine whether the plan has been fully accepted and how it will be manifested,â read a military assessment reviewed by The Times.
âThe continuation of the war does not contribute to any of its stated goals, and will lead to the deaths of hostages, IDF soldiers, and innocents,â they wrote, adding lower down: âWe see Hamas controlling the Strip and recruiting new operatives to its ranks, while the government has not presented a convincing plan to overthrow it.â
None of the letters published over the last few days have included calls for refusals to serve.
The investigation into the decision-making process made by top officials on the eve of the attack found that the IDF identified five signs of unusual Hamas activity the night before the terror groupâs October 7 onslaught, but believed they did not indicate an imminent attack.
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This investigation also found that the IDFâs conduct, decision-making, and intelligence assessments on the night between October 6 and 7 were based on the result of years of false assessments about Hamas.
As a result, intelligence officials on all levels failed to provide a warning for what would come.
Hamas had studied Nahal Oz from afar for years prior to launching the deadly assault and was intimately familiar with the layout of the base, including âwhere every room was,â the report says. It adds that the terror group knew that the base would be operating at a reduced capacity due to the Jewish holiday of Simhat Torah, which fell on a Saturday that year.
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The probe also reportedly addresses the impact that the incessant rocket fire had on the devastation inside the military outpost, as terrorists were able to easily kill large groups of soldiers who had gathered in bomb shelters.
(November 30, 2023)
The document circulated widely among Israeli military and intelligence leaders, but experts determined that an attack of that scale and ambition was beyond Hamasâs capabilities, according to documents and officials. It is unclear whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or other top political leaders saw the document, as well.
(…)
Last year, shortly after the document was obtained, officials in the Israeli militaryâs Gaza division, which is responsible for defending the border with Gaza, said that Hamasâs intentions were unclear.
âIt is not yet possible to determine whether the plan has been fully accepted and how it will be manifested,â read a military assessment reviewed by The Times.