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Source: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-745570
Israel Received Critical Iran Intelligence from IDF Soldier's 15-Year Side Project
(Jerusalem Post) An Iranian Israeli immigrant who was fluent in Farsi and Arabic, known as SWO (res.) E., was assigned to monitor broadcasts from Arab nations for the IDF. While not part of his job, he also began listening in on the Iranian military, filling numerous notebooks over 15 years with intelligence on senior Iranian forces. After the Shah was overthrown in 1979, E.'s side project became his full-time job, as he built a team to help monitor Iranian communications. E. also compiled the first Hebrew-Farsi military dictionary which is still in use today.