Overview
- On June 30, Shin Bet and Jerusalem District Police arrested a father, his son and an accomplice in an undercover probe codenamed “Matrix.”
- Investigators uncovered converted apartments serving as bomb-making labs and seized dozens of improvised explosive devices along with chemical and electronic components sourced from online tutorials and gardening centers.
- The son, who converted to Islam after being barred from IDF service, was trained by his father in firearms use and radicalized through extremist ideology.
- Police revealed the father carried out an undetected shooting near the Qalandiya checkpoint, orchestrated arms and IED purchases, sold explosives to undercover agent “Matrix” and sought financial backing from Hamas.
- Evidence shows the cell planned a bombing at a central Israel nightclub and explosive assaults targeting soldiers and police at a northern Jerusalem checkpoint.