Israeli Police officers and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) agents have arrested three more suspected Israeli spies for Iran, in two separate incidents, according to a joint statement by the two security agencies.
Two of the suspect spies are residents of Tiberias. Yoni Segal, 18, and Nehorai Omri Mizrahi, 20, are accused of filming shopping malls and hospitals across the country, sending their Iranian handler information on the number of stores and security guards, and layout of each building.
The Iranians received information from the pair on shopping malls in major Israeli cities, including Tel Aviv, Haifa and Tiberias, as well as information on Ichilov Medical Center in Tel Aviv.
An Iranian agent also allegedly tried to persuade Mizrahi to murder an unnamed fellow Israeli for a payment of hundreds of thousands of shekels. The handler also allegedly offered to fly Mizrahi and Segal to a foreign country, where they would be trained and then be given the identity of their target. The plan, however, never materialized.
In the second case, Jordan Valley resident Mark Morgein, 35, was arrested on suspicion of transporting a grenade from one hidden location to another at the request of his handler, with whom he maintained contact throughout the month of June.
Morgein allegedly moved the grenade while fully aware it would be used in an attack against Israeli citizens.
Investigators with the Israel Police Lahav 433 Unit submitted a prosecutor’s declaration to the Petach Tikva Magistrate’s Court on Monday, along with a request to extend the remand of all three suspects.
Remand was granted for a four-day period, through this Thursday.
