Israel

Multiple credible reports in October 2023 claimed Egyptian intelligence had warned Israel of an imminent major Hamas attack 'three days before' the 7 October 2023 assault. Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry both made statements consistent with such a warning having been conveyed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office denied receiving a specific warning of the attack's scale or timing. A Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee inquiry in October 2023 heard testimony from intelligence officials. The Israeli State Comptroller published a report in July 2024 on intelligence failures. The claim is partially true: Egypt conveyed general threat warnings; whether a specific operationally actionable warning was conveyed and ignored remains disputed.

On 17 September 2024, approximately 5,000 pagers used by Hezbollah operatives across Lebanon and Syria detonated simultaneously, killing 12 people and injuring thousands. The following day, 18 September, ICOM IC-V82 walkie-talkies exploded, killing 20+ more. Total casualties: at least 42 killed, 3,500+ injured. Reuters and Washington Post reporting described a supply-chain compromise via shell companies BAC Consulting (Hungary) and Norta Global (Bulgaria). Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu confirmed Israeli responsibility in a declassification announced in August 2025. The UN OHCHR opened an investigation into compliance with international humanitarian law.

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was shot by Yigal Amir on 4 November 1995 at Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv, immediately after a peace rally. Amir, a 25-year-old religious-nationalist law student, fired at close range and was apprehended on the spot. Rabin died in surgery at Ichilov Hospital. Conspiracy framings centre on the role of Shabak agent Avishai Raviv (codenamed 'Champion'), who operated as an agent-provocateur in right-wing settler circles and was acquainted with Amir, and on alleged protective-service failures documented by the Shamgar Commission. The core murder conviction is not in dispute; debate concerns whether the incitement environment was state-enabled.

The Lavon Affair (also called Operation Susannah) was a failed Israeli covert operation in 1954 in which Egyptian-Jewish agents recruited by Israeli military intelligence carried out a series of bombings against British and American targets in Cairo and Alexandria. The operation was designed to be attributed to the Muslim Brotherhood or Egyptian communists, with the aim of destabilising the relationship between Egypt and the Western powers and discrediting the Nasser government. The network was exposed by Egyptian security services; Israeli defence minister Pinhas Lavon resigned over the affair in 1955. Israel officially acknowledged the operation in 2005.