Police Internal Investigations Probes Officer Over Suspected Contact With Iranian Intelligence Agent

The Police Internal Investigations Department announced today (Wednesday) that it questioned a police officer serving as an investigator in the Lahav 433 unit. The officer is suspected of having contact with an Iranian agent. The suspect was questioned under caution בעקבות information received from the Barak division in the unit where he serves.

The department said the officer was detained for questioning yesterday, and at the end of his interrogation he was released under restrictive conditions and to house arrest. No further details were provided, including whether the Shin Bet is involved in the investigation.

As previously reported, over the past two years more than 50 espionage cases on behalf of Iran have been investigated. In most of them, indictments were filed. The latest came earlier this month, when indictments were filed against an Israeli citizen and three IDF soldiers on suspicion that they acted for Iranian intelligence operatives and carried out security-related missions for them across the country.

According to a joint statement from the police, the Shin Bet, and the IDF, the suspects began their activity while they were still minors, before they were drafted into the military, while maintaining prolonged ties with Iranian handlers. They were arrested during March 2026.

The investigation found that one of those involved served as a recruiting figure and worked to bring the other defendants into the activity. As part of this, according to the suspicion, the four carried out various photography missions across Israel and documented a series of sites that were later passed on to their handlers. Among the sites documented: train stations, shopping centers, security cameras, as well as the Air Force technical school, where some of the suspects studied.