Another security affair has come to light: The IDF military prosecution filed an indictment against two soldiers serving in the Israeli Air Force on suspicion of committing security offenses on behalf of Iranian intelligence operatives.
As part of a joint operation by the Shin Bet security agency, Police, the IDF Military Police Criminal Investigation Division and the IDF Information Security Department, two IDF soldiers serving as F-15 technicians were arrested during March 2026 on suspicion of security offenses involving contact with Iranian intelligence operatives and carrying out security-related missions under their direction.
Sent the locations of IDF Chief of Staff and ministers
According to the indictment filed Thursday by the military prosecution, one soldier was charged with aiding the enemy in wartime, passing information to the enemy, assisting contact with a foreign agent and other offenses. The second soldier was charged with contact with a foreign agent, passing information to the enemy and other offenses.
The two told investigators that contact with their Iranian handlers was cut off after they refused to carry out missions involving weapons. Even so, after the handlers themselves severed contact, the two allegedly did not stop trying to reestablish it for financial gain.
Among other things, the two allegedly sent the locations of then IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, as well as those of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
According to the indictment, over the course of several months the two soldiers were in contact with Iranian intelligence operatives and carried out a variety of missions at their direction in return for money. One of the soldiers also passed material from his military training concerning fighter jet systems to an Iranian foreign agent, along with documentation of facilities and areas inside a military base.
