The Jerusalem Post reports: “Two men from Tiberias, Yoni Segal, 18, and Nehorai Mizrahi, were indicted by the prosecution at the Nazareth District Court on Thursday for spying for the Islamic Republic of Iran, on the charges of contact with a foreign agent, espionage, and obstruction of justice.
They were arrested on the night between June 14 and 15, the Lahav 433 National Crime Unit announced on Monday, with aid from the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency).
Per the indictment, in May, the two initiated contact with Iranian agents through the Telegram app. The agents, the indictment shows, presented themselves as ‘Kaplanist leftists’ (in reference to the protest movement), and asked the two to commit several acts, including writing the words ‘Bibi [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] is a dictator’ on a piece of paper and burning it. They were paid in cryptocurrency…”
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