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# Israeli Intelligence Community

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