An Israeli woman was convicted on Wednesday on a spying charge for Iran
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after the Supreme Court overturned a previous 2023 ruling by a district court exonerating her.
A panel of three judges accepted an appeal by prosecutors that the woman, who cannot be named in media, should be convicted of passing information that could be useful to an enemy agent. However,
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the court did not alter her original sentence of two and a half months in prison for contact with a foreign agent, despite feeling it should be adjusted, because the appeal had not contested that part of the case.
In their ruling, Supreme Court Justices Judge Yosef Elron, Alex Stein, and Ruth Ronen focused on the aspect that information was passed to an "enemy" agent, rather than just a foreign actor, finding that the Jerusalem District Court should have reached the same conclusion.
The Shin Bet security service announced in January 2022 that it had arrested five Jewish Israelis accused of assisting an Iranian operative calling himself "Rambod Namdar," who often pretended to be a Jewish man, in gathering intelligence and making connections in Israel. The five suspects — four women and one man — were all Jewish im
Four were eventually acquitted, or the charges were dropped, but the woman was charged with maintaining contact with an Iranian agent between 2014 and 2018 and providing him information, including photographing various sites in Israel. Namdar presented himself as an Iranian Moslem bachelor interested in Judaism, but prosecutors said the woman suspected that he was working for the regime in Tehran.
The Jerusalem District Court in 2023 convicted the woman of contact with a foreign agent, but cleared her of the charge of conveying information that may benefit the enemy.
Elron said there was enough evidence to show that Namdar was an "enemy" agent, rejecting the lower court’s conclusion that though he was apparently a foreign agent, it was not clear that he was working for an enemy.
"His obvious interest in the security of the State of Israel, its institutions, and its operations, while working tirelessly to collect sensitive information, indicates that this is someone who acted on behalf of the enemy," the justices wrote.
In their appeal, prosecutors pointed to the topics Namdar showed interest in when conversing with the Israeli women he contacted, the tasks he asked of the women, and the kind of information he asked them to obtain for him, which included attempts to identify family members in the security forces. He also asked for information about the location of military bases, Mosssd
......and Shin Bet headquarters, security arrangements in public places, and sought personal details of security bigshots.
In addition, the woman herself told police during her investigation that she "99 percent" suspected that Namdar was an Iranian agent.
"Someone who appears to be an Iranian agent and behaves like an Iranian agent is an Iranian agent," Stein wrote.
Elron criticized the prosecution for only appealing against the acquittal and not the two-and-a-half-month jail sentence that the woman was given for her conviction, a punishment he described as "ridiculous."
However,
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because the appeal was not against the sentence, he said the court’s "hands are tied" in adjusting the prison time which he said should have been "a most significant period behind bars."
The prosecution responded to the ruling in a statement that the court’s decision "stresses the duty Israeli citizens have to take extra caution in ties with foreign entities and strengthen state security defense against intelligence threats."
Namdar was reportedly in contact with around 20 other Israelis, the majority of them women.
Over the past two years, Iranian intelligence operatives have ramped up their efforts to recruit ordinary Israelis as spies in exchange for money.
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