Israel's Urim base in the Negev desert is among the most important and powerful intelligence gathering sites in the world.
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Israel's powerful position in the Middle East is often associated with its armed forces, nuclear weapons arsenal or covert (Mossad) operatives. But just as important is its intelligence gathering -- monitoring governments, international organisations, foreign companies, political organisations and individuals.
Most of this happens at the installation in the Negev a couple of kilometres to the north of the kibbutz of Urim. Our sources, close to Israeli intelligence,
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know the base first-hand. They describe lines of satellite dishes of different sizes, and barracks and operations buildings on both sides of the road (the 2333) that leads to the base. |