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The department of Non-Arab Affairs has a wider counter-intelligence role which includes monitoring immigrants and foreign diplomatic missions.<ref name="Global153>Paul Todd and Jonathan Bloch, Global Intelligence: The World's Secret Services Today, Zed Books, 2003, p.153.</ref>
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The department of Non-Arab Affairs has a wider counter-intelligence role which includes monitoring immigrants and foreign diplomatic missions.<ref name="Global153>Paul Todd and Jonathan Bloch, Global Intelligence: The World's Secret Services Today, Zed Books, 2003, p.153.</ref> It's role includes responsibility for the Jewish Division.<ref>Tomer Zarchin and Amos Harel, [http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/shin-bet-deputy-suspended-for-role-in-lover-s-promotion-1.295011 Shin Bet deputy suspended for role in lover's promotion], ''Haaretz'', 9 June 2010.</ref>
 
*[[Amos Manor]], head c.1950.<ref name="YnetObit">Efrat Weiss, [http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3433999,00.html Former Shin Bet chief Amos Manor dies, age 89], Ynet, 5 August 2007.</ref>
 
*[[Amos Manor]], head c.1950.<ref name="YnetObit">Efrat Weiss, [http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3433999,00.html Former Shin Bet chief Amos Manor dies, age 89], Ynet, 5 August 2007.</ref>
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*''K''' - c.2010.<ref>Tomer Zarchin and Amos Harel, [http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/shin-bet-deputy-suspended-for-role-in-lover-s-promotion-1.295011 Shin Bet deputy suspended for role in lover's promotion], ''Haaretz'', 9 June 2010.</ref>
  
 
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====Protective Security====

Revision as of 13:49, 24 July 2012

The Israel Security Agency or General Security Agency, known in Hebrew as Shabak (an abbreviation for Sherut ha-Bitachon ha-Klali) or Shin Bet, is the Israeli counterintelligence and internal security service.[1]

Structure and Personnel

Shin Bet has three operational departments and five for operational support.[2]

Directors

Deputy Directors

Operations Division

According to journalists Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman, the Operations Division in the early years of Shin Bet had three departments, Arab Affairs, Non-Arab Affairs, and Protective Security.[11] Given Avraham Ben-Dor's move from head of operations to head of security in 1972, its possible that security became an independent division at some point. [12]

Arab Affairs

The department of Arab Affairs is responsible for counter-terrorism, counter-subversion and monitoring 'Arab militants'. Its Henza detachments work with Aman Mista'averim units in occupied territories and some neighboring states.[2]

Non-Arab Affairs

The department of Non-Arab Affairs has a wider counter-intelligence role which includes monitoring immigrants and foreign diplomatic missions.[2] It's role includes responsibility for the Jewish Division.[14]

Protective Security

The protective security department is responsible for protecting strategic infrastructure and for the El Al airline.[2]

Support Divisions

Support branch departments have included administration, interrogation and legal counsel, technology, co-ordination and planning, and logistics.[11]

Administrative Division

Training Division

Other Staff

Resources

Notes

  1. Shabak/Shin Bet/Israel Security Agency/Sherut ha-Bitachon ha-Klali, Federation of American Scientists, accessed 9 May 2009.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Paul Todd and Jonathan Bloch, Global Intelligence: The World's Secret Services Today, Zed Books, 2003, p.153.
  3. ISA Directors Then and Now, ISA Security Agency (Shin Bet), accessed 9 April 2009.
  4. Yuval Diskin appointed ISA Director, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 10 February 2005.
  5. Netanyahu appoints Yoram Cohen as Israel's next Shin Bet chief, Haaretz, 28 March 2011.
  6. 6.0 6.1 Efrat Weiss, Former Shin Bet chief Amos Manor dies, age 89, Ynet, 5 August 2007.
  7. Yosef Harmelin, Israel Security Agency, accessed 24 July 2012.
  8. 8.0 8.1 Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, Every Spy a Prince: The Secret History of Israel's Intelligence Community, Houghton Mifflin, 1991, p.284.
  9. 9.0 9.1 Yaakov Peri, Israel Security Agency, accessed 24 July 2012.
  10. 10.0 10.1 Avid Dichter, Israel Security Agency, accessed 24 July 2012
  11. 11.0 11.1 Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, Every Spy a Prince: The Secret History of Israel's Intelligence Community, Houghton Mifflin, 1991, p.50.
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 Avraham (Shalom) Ben-Dor , Israel Security Agency, accessed 24 July 2012.
  13. Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, Every Spy a Prince: The Secret History of Israel's Intelligence Community, Houghton Mifflin, 1991, p.169.
  14. Tomer Zarchin and Amos Harel, Shin Bet deputy suspended for role in lover's promotion, Haaretz, 9 June 2010.
  15. Tomer Zarchin and Amos Harel, Shin Bet deputy suspended for role in lover's promotion, Haaretz, 9 June 2010.
  16. Carmi Gillon, Israel Security Agency, accessed 24 July 2012.