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Israeli Intelligence Community

The Israeli intelligence community (Hebrew: קהילת המודיעין הישראלית) is made up of Aman (military intelligence), Mossad (foreign intelligence) and Shin Bet (domestic intelligence).

See also:

Israeli Intelligence Community (IIC) is organised as follows:

Civil

Mossad: The agency responsible primarily for foreign-intelligence work

Shabak ("Shin Bet"): The organization charged with maintaining internal security, including in the Israeli-occupied territories

National Security Council (official website: http://www.nsc.gov.il/)

LOTAR

Division of Investigations and Intelligence (official website) of the Israeli Police

Mamad (Center for Political Research) (official website: https://www.gov.il/he/departments/Units/mamad) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Authority (official website) of the Ministry of Justice.

Military

Military Intelligence Directorate (Aman): the supreme military-intelligence branch of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF)

Intelligence Corps: The main intelligence-collection and -analysis body of the IDF General Staff; also includes the Israeli SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) agency known as Unit 8200, HUMINT (Human Intelligence) Unit 504 and VISINT (Visual Intelligence) Unit 9900 (all of which are Aman Units)

Information Security Department: The main information-security and counterintelligence unit of Aman

Research Department: The main all-source intelligence-assessment Unit of Aman

Control Department of Aman

The Intelligence Units of the four Regional Commands (Central, Northern, Southern, Home Front – all of which are Aman Units)

Air Intelligence Directorate: The intelligence unit of the Israeli Air Force

Field Intelligence Force (renamed Combat Intelligence Collection Corps, which is the intelligence Unit of the Land Forces)

Sayeret Matkal (סיירת מטכ"ל): The IDF's premier special-forces unit, directly subordinate to Aman

Former Agencies

Path (נתיב, Nativ), officially Lishkat Hakesher or The Liaison Bureau (June 1951–2021 | official websites: https://www.nativ.gov.il and https://www.gov.il/...): The organization responsible for bringing Jews from Soviet Bloc countries, a later manifestation of the Mossad Le'aliyah Bet. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, it moved out of the intelligence community and became a Department within the Prime Minister's office.

Science Relations Bureau (הלשכה לקשרי מדע, Lekem) (1957–1981): The agency responsible for obtaining and securing secret nuclear technology. It was dissolved in 1986.

Sources:
https://www.intelligence.org.il/...
https://irp.fas.org/world/israel/mossad/
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/israel-intelligence-agencies
https://he.wikipedia.org/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Intelligence_Community

For additional information go to Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC) (official websites):
Israel, https://www.iicc.org.il/

Esteban Rivera, 13 March 2026