73-year-old Motti Maman, the Israeli recruited by Iran to assassinate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Shin Bet Chief Ronen Bar, and former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is arrested, defense echelon says.
The Magistrate’s Court in Be’er Sheva permitted the publication that Motti Maman, a 73-year-old resident of Ashkelon, is the Israeli accused of being recruited by Iran to assassinate senior officials. His arrest was extended by 21 days.
The target: the Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and head of the Shin Bet.
The report: An Israeli citizen was recruited by intelligence agencies in Iran to push the assassination of Israeli public personalities. He was smuggled twice into Iran and received payment for carrying out missions.
An Israeli citizen was arrested in August on suspicion of committing security offenses, related to holding contact with intelligence agencies in the Iranian regime, the ISA and Israel Police’s Lahav 433 revealed.
The investigation found that the citizen was a businessman. He had lived in Turkey for an extended period of time and had business and social ties with people of Turkish and Iranian origin.
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