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December 23, 2024 | |

Israel SitRep: December 23, 2024

Today’s Issue: | IDF Plans to Stay in Syrian Mount Hermon Through Winter, Racing to Complete Preparations | Two Jerusalem Men Indicted for Providing Information to Hezbollah; Nazareth Man Indicted in...

October 31, 2024 | Janatan Sayeh |

Spy surge: Tehran’s espionage strategy against Israel

The Islamic Republic has accelerated its intelligence operations in Israel, with at least five spy rings uncovered by Israel in October alone. Between October 14 and 31, authorities arrested some 20 individuals...

September 23, 2024 | Max Lesser, Mason Krusch

Meta Bans Russian State Media

Meta — the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads — banned several Russian state media outlets last week, including RT and Rossiya Segodnya, as part of its ongoing efforts to...

August 26, 2024 | |

Iranian Cyber-Spying Group Posed as Tech Support to Target U.S. Political Officials’ WhatsApp Accounts

Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, reported on August 23 that it blocked a small cluster of WhatsApp accounts used by Iranian cyber-attackers to target officials...

February 21, 2024 | |

Israel SitRep: Feb. 21, 2024

Israel SitRep: Feb. 21, 2024 Today’s Issue: IAF Jets Strike Hezbollah Headquarters in Lebanon, Explosions Reported in Damascus | IDF Carries Out Overnight West Bank Raids, Arrests Wanted Persons,...

November 24, 2023 | |

Pause in Fighting Begins Between Israel and Hamas

A four-day pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas began at 7:00 a.m. on November 24 local time. The deal includes the return of 50 hostages held by the Iran-backed terrorist...

October 18, 2023 | |

Biden Arrives in Israel as Iran Aims to Destabilize Region

President Joe Biden landed in Israel on October 18 to express solidarity with Israel following the Hamas attack on October 7 that killed 1,400 people and resulted in some 200 hostages,...

July 10, 2023 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Breaking a leg in Jerusalem: How Arab-Israeli kindness challenged my assumptions

The kindness of one stranger from the West Bank doesn’t change the challenges associated with the two-state solution, but it certainly feels like the right time to question some of my assumptions.

July 23, 2021 | Annie Fixler, Divjot Bawa

Iran’s Social Engineering Capabilities Mature

Facebook last week dismantled a long-running Iranian cyber operation that collected sensitive information on U.S. military personnel and employees of American defense and aerospace companies. Unlike a previous...

May 19, 2021 | Craig Singleton |

Cover-Ups of WHO Misconduct Expose Leadership Failures and Compromised Agency Culture

The World Health Organization (WHO) reportedly covered up sexual assault allegations involving senior agency officials, while Italian prosecutors are investigating another top WHO figure for making false...

March 26, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Social Media Is an Intel Gold Mine. Why Aren’t Governments Using It?

“To platform or to deplatform” is the wrong debate.

February 12, 2021 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Trevor Logan

Burmese Military Blocks Social Media Access With the Assistance of Telecommunications Providers

Following the coup in Burma, the military junta has tried to quash public protests by cutting internet access and banning social media sites. The military has cloaked its actions in a veneer of legality,...

November 6, 2020 | Aykan Erdemir |

Turkey Fines Global Social Media Platforms in Desperate Bid to Stifle Online Dissent

The Turkish government announced on Wednesday its decision to fine Facebook, Instagram, Periscope, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube 10 million liras ($1.175 million) each for failing to comply with a new law...

November 3, 2020 | Aykan Erdemir, Umut Can Fidan

Zarrab Was Not the Only Iranian Ringleader to Exploit Turkey’s Permissive Jurisdiction

Reza Zarrab, the Turkey-based ringleader of Iran’s sanctions-evasion network who laundered over $20 billion in the biggest sanctions-evasion scheme in recent history, continues to make headlines. A...

August 14, 2020 | Mathew Ha |

North Korean Hackers Target Israeli Defense Companies

North Korean hackers launched attacks against Israel’s defense sector, according to a new report from ClearSky, a private cybersecurity company. The hackers likely sought to uncover military secrets essential...

May 20, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

The Naval Air Station Pensacola Shooter Shows That Al-Qaeda Is Still a Significant Threat

We now know that Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani was working for AQAP.

April 4, 2020 | Cleo Paskal |

Time to practice social distancing from CCP

How many times does CCP have to lie before we just say, ‘ok, they are liars’? It’s time to practice social (and economic and political) distancing from Patient Zero of the Covid-19 outbreak, the Chinese...

November 29, 2018 | Jonathan Schanzer |

I’m a Wonk at a Think Tank. Turkish Media Say I’m an International Man of Mystery.

It's amazing what you learn about yourself when you start publishing about Turkey's links to terrorist groups.

October 12, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir, John Lechner

Khashoggi Crisis Holds a Mirror to Turkey

Saudi journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi has gone missing after visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, sparking a diplomatic crisis between Turkey and Saudi Arabia. The Turkish government alleges...

January 4, 2017 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

ISIL’s Virtual Planners: A Critical Terrorist Innovation

On December 19, Anis Amri plowed a hijacked truck through the Christm...