Overview
- The State Attorney's Office filed the indictment on Jan. 5 in the Central District Court in Lod, charging the defendant with contact with a foreign agent.
- According to investigators, the suspect installed a SIM-enabled dashcam that an operator accessed remotely to live stream locations, including the street where former prime minister Naftali Bennett lives.
- Security personnel approached the suspect near Bennett’s home in December, he fled the scene, and he was arrested about a week later.
- The Shin Bet and Israel Police say he admitted carrying out intelligence-gathering tasks under Iranian direction in exchange for cryptocurrency transfers via Binance.
- Prosecutors seek his detention to the end of proceedings, citing videos identifying Bennett’s street and noting parallel Iranian recruitment cases reported since 2023, including a separate December arrest.