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Source: https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/01/31/irans-years-long-effort-to-infiltrate-israel-revealed/
Iran's Effort to Infiltrate Israel, Recruit Spies and Sow Terror
(Algemeiner) Benjamin Kerstein - Iran has been engaged in a years-long effort to infiltrate Israel, set up terror cells, and carry out terror attacks, Israeli news site Walla reported on Sunday. The effort began with the 1997 appointment of Qassem Soleimani as head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force. The report detailed a litany of Iranian and Iran-sponsored attempts in recent years to infiltrate Israel. In January 2018, the Israel Security Agency uncovered an Iranian intelligence infrastructure in the West Bank. In 2019, a major Iranian attempt to recruit agents in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza was uncovered that operated from Syria. In March 2020, an Israeli civilian was arrested on charges of spying for Iran. In June 2020, the ISA busted a terror squad from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine that was funded and trained by Iran and Hizbullah.