Shin Bet boss Ronen Bar battles internal headwinds and Palestinian strife

Israeli intelligence mobilised in response to renewed violence 

Worried Israeli senior security officials have warned Benjamin Netanyahu that the country's new far-right government's punitive response to Palestinian strikes may worsen the security situation.

• NORWAY/FRANCE/RUSSIA - Russian defector's story challenged
  

• ISRAEL/JORDAN - Shin Bet director joins Netanyahu on reassurance mission in Amman
  

• UNITED STATES - Intelligence services revise their integration procedures
  

• UNITED STATES - Congress scrutinises DIA's HR management
  

Behind the new deal between Turkey's MIT and the Mossad  Free

With Israeli-Turkish diplomatic relations now fully restored, a reconciliation over intelligence sharing appears to have been sealed as well. Turkish intelligence services and the Mossad recently discreetly signed an understanding aimed largely at allowing Tel Aviv to track down Iranian cells in Turkey.

Tracfin seeks cooperation with counterpart IMPA to crackdown on bi-national financial crimes 

A real problem for the French-Israeli relationship for years now, financial frauds carried out by dual nationals from the Jewish state continue to grow in number, but a joint agreement between the two countries is set to change that.

How the Mossad outsources covert operations to its Malaysian agents 

The Mossad's attempt to run covert operations in Malaysia from Israel has recently been publicly exposed as a failure. It also unwittingly disclosed how it recruits, trains and remotely controls cells of local agents.

Iranian drone reports could see Israel increase intelligence cooperation with Ukraine 

Tel Aviv has been treading on eggshells with both Kyiv and Moscow since the start of the Ukrainian conflict, but may slightly shift its position in the light of reports of Iranian drones allegedly being used by Russia.

• ISRAEL/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Shin Bet lays down its terms for Dubai airport. 

• RUSSIA - Russian army also struggling to find instructors for its mobilisation. 

• ITALY - Meloni's government changes skip past Elisabetta Belloni.

• PALESTINE - New breed of fighters worries Preventive Security chief Majad Faraj 

• UNITED STATES - US-China rivalry may obstruct intelligence-sharing with Ukraine
  

• UNITED KINGDOM - Joint Intelligence Organisation targets China over economic security
  

• RUSSIA - Investigatory bodies try to hold on to top staff
  

• FRANCE - Tracfin seeks new chief to boost technical department. 

• ISRAEL/EGYPT - Ronen Bar on reconciliation mission in Cairo. 

• RUSSIA - FSB coast guards take the plunge.

• UKRAINE - Death a regional SBU head sparks probe. 

Behind Shin Bet's VIP missions 

Best known for its intelligence operations, Shin Bet has other more mundane duties in the political and diplomatic life of the state of Israel. Escorting delegations travelling abroad and playing a role in the expansion of the country's tourist industry are also part of its duties.

Mossad trains European intel agents in open-source spy tools analysis  Free

Israel's secret service has launched a special programme to train European agents to tap the huge potential of open-source investigation tools to boost their recruitment and intelligence-gathering capacities.

Mossad ordered to help build bridges with Khartoum 

A delegation of Sudanese officials is currently visiting Israel in an attempt to establish diplomatic relations, a process currently at a standstill. The Israeli intelligence officers who were recently in Sudan will facilitate the meeting.

Shin Bet criticised for human intelligence failures 

Following a wave of attacks unprecedented since the second Intifada, the Israeli authorities have pointed the finger at internal intelligence service Shin Bet, claiming that shortcomings in its human intelligence gathering capacities prevented threats from being identified.