Prosecutors charged a 14-year-old boy with espionage on Wednesday after he allegedly carried out missions on Iran’s behalf, including filming the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv.
Over the past two years, dozens of Israelis have been charged with spying for Iran. In many of the cases, Iranian agents recruited Israelis via social media, specifically through Telegram.
The minor, a resident of central Israel, was charged in the Tel Aviv Juvenile Court with maintaining contact with a foreign agent and passing intelligence to the enemy, among other offenses.
According to the State Attorney’s Office, the teenager contacted the Iranian agent via a Telegram account in April 2025 in response to a message about a job he was interested in. The minor agreed to carry out the tasks for payment in cryptocurrencies that would be transferred to a digital wallet.
The minor opened four digital wallets, to which the agent transferred a total of over $1,170.
According to the charge sheet, the defendant took videos near Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center-Ichilov and in Ramat Gan, where an elderly couple was recently killed in an Iranian missile strike.
Additionally, he captured the location of the Kirya military headquarters in a video depicting Tel Aviv’s skyline.
The minor is also accused of posting graffiti messages across Tel Aviv, including one that read, "We are committed to the covenant."
According to prosecutors, the teen was also asked to spy on Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar as he went about his day and to vandalize his home with the message, "We will take Dire Revenge in turn! Ruhollah’s children," an apparent reference to Iran’s first supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini. The defendant told his Iranian contact that he couldn’t carry out the mission during the school year, and that it would have to wait until a vacation.
Prosecutors added that the Iranian agent even enlisted the 14-year-old to rent an apartment near IDF headquarters. Although the teen allegedly spoke with several landlords about renting in the area and sent the agent a photo of an apartment, he never secured one.
After being questioned, the minor tried to get a classmate to lie during an interrogation and say he was the one who had transferred him most of the money seized in his digital wallets, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors didn’t specify when the alleged offenses took place.
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