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in the town of Kfar Ahim — where Defense Minister Israel Katz resides — in what officials say is the most recent case in a widening Iranian espionage campaign inside Israel.
In response, Katz thanked security services for "foiling an Iranian plot to harm me as defense minister of the State of Israel."
Roy Mizrahi and Almog Atias, both 24 and residents of Nesher near Haifa, were detained in late April following a joint investigation by the Shin Bet and the Israel Police’s Lahav 433 major crimes unit.
According to reports, they were recruited in a Telegram group for swingers.
Officials say Mizrahi maintained contact with Iranian operatives throughout 2025 and carried out a series of security-related missions — some alongside Atias — fully aware they were acting under Iranian direction.
One mission included transferring a bag that was buried in the ground, believed to contain an bomb, from one location to another at the instruction of Iranian handlers.
Mizrahi reportedly used a newly acquired phone and an encrypted messaging app to maintain covert communication with his contacts.
The Central District Attorney’s Office is expected to file serious indictments against the two in the coming days.
"This case joins a series of recent incidents that point to persistent efforts by hostile terrorist and intelligence entities to recruit Israeli citizens to carry out missions intended to harm the security of the State of Israel and its citizens," a security official said.
Earlier this week, 18-year-old Moshe Attias of Yavne was charged with spying on former prime minister Naftali Bennett while the latter was hospitalized.
Attias allegedly filmed the cardiology department at Kfar Saba’s Meir Medical Center, documenting the area where Bennett was being treated, and carried out additional missions at the behest of Iranian operatives.
Additionally, in January, authorities said they arrested two IDF reservists — Yuri Eliasfov and Georgi Andreyev, both 21 — for allegedly passing sensitive material about the Iron Dome missile defense system to Iran in exchange for payments as small as $50.
Those cases are the most recent in a two-year trend of Iranian intelligence operatives ramping up efforts to recruit ordinary Israelis as spies in exchange for money.
Last December, police arrested nearly 30 Israelis, mostly Jewish citizens, for espionage activities on behalf of Iran.
In most of those cases, the suspects began by carrying out small, innocuous tasks that gradually grew into more serious offenses, like intelligence gathering and liquidation plots.
Authorities have repeatedly urged Israelis to avoid any contact with foreign operatives and warned of severe legal consequences for those who cooperate with hostile intelligence services.