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2025-07-26 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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'Hacksaw Rigs': Mysterious Pensioner Tried to Blow Up Netanyahu
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Leonid Tsukanov
[REGNUM] On July 24, the Israeli Attorney General's Office filed charges of plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. For a country at war, which is also regularly subject to terrorist attacks, this might seem routine. If not for the identity of the accused.
According to the investigation, the terrorist attack was prepared by a 70-year-old resident of Tel Aviv. The pensioner, suffering from a fatal disease, decided to carry out the dangerous action allegedly "for reasons of conscience," hoping that with the death of the leader of the right-wing coalition, the country would have a chance to get out of the crisis.
But, contrary to public expectations, she has never done business with Iran, which is confirmed by state prosecutors. However, there are forces in Israel that suggest “digging deeper” and looking for hidden connections.
"CITIZEN X"
Due to the fact that the case has a great public resonance and is connected with the security of the top officials of the Jewish state, the special services do not disclose the identification data of the detainee. In thematic materials, she is most often referred to as a "retiree from Tel Aviv" or "citizen X".
On the other hand, the investigative bodies do not skimp on her portrait. Among other things, it is noted that the detainee was a "civic activist" and "a regular at protests." She also supported the course of one of the opposition centrist parties (most likely, Yesh Atid, headed by former Prime Minister Yair Lapid) and "systematically criticized the Netanyahu government."
According to investigators, the pensioner decided to organize the assassination attempt "for ideological reasons." She believed that the Israeli prime minister's reckless actions "drove the country into a crisis," turning ordinary Israelis into "international pariahs." And the unwillingness to admit mistakes weakened the Jewish state more than any armed conflict.
Such judgments, by the way, are quite popular in opposition circles, and law enforcement officials were not too surprised by them. Moreover, another factor served as a trigger for the transition from words to deeds.
TAKE TO THE GRAVE
According to Israeli media, the detainee suffered from a fatal illness and at some point decided to take Netanyahu to her grave. Apparently, she was trying to provoke early elections in Israel and thus help the country get out of the crisis.
She planned to carry out her plan using an improvised explosive device, converted from an RPG round, and tried to enter the black market for weapons through acquaintances and other activists. She also studied the security system of government institutions and the routes of Netanyahu's car.
The pensioner was turned in by her own people.
| Good to know they aren’t totally vile, being merely anti-democratic, selfish, short-sighted, and dangerously wrong. |
One of the comrades in the protest movement, a retired Shin Bet officer, became an unwitting listener to the revelations of “citizen X” and hastened to report this to his former superiors.
| Not totally lost to the dark side… |
However, as it turned out later, he was not the only “vigilant citizen” – the special services received at least three requests from different people (most of them opposition-minded citizens), with whom the pensioner managed to enter into negotiations.
The opposition’s rapid distancing from its activist is not surprising – the overwhelming majority of Israel’s protest forces are not interested in a forceful solution to the domestic political crisis and reject terror as a method of achieving goals.
Moreover, an assassination attempt on the prime minister could damage the image of the entire Israeli opposition movement, especially given the fact that the activities of most protest groups and social movements were funded by American Democrats.
| Embarrassing to have that revealed for all involved, one imagines, but healthy for the body politic. |
The auditors of the US House of Representatives reported this publicly a few days ago. For obvious reasons, there were no people willing to add the label of anti-state terrorism to the “outside-controlled protests”.
"VICIOUS CONNECTIONS"
A specific feature of the case is that “Tehran’s interests” do not figure in it at all, unlike most similar scandals, where the “Iranian trace” became the main version in the first days, and any activity to destabilize the situation in Israel was linked to the “strategic interests” of Tel Aviv’s opponents.
In the case of "citizen X," the prosecution is inclined to consider the assassination attempt "the result of a clouded mind," and plans to insist on compulsory treatment for the detainee without imprisonment. Especially since she prepared the act of retaliation alone and did not receive external funding, although she tried to involve several like-minded people in the case.
Even the most desperate "mole hunters" could not bring themselves to declare the pensioner an "Iranian agent." For a combination of reasons, she was not kept in a pretrial detention center, but released on the condition that she not visit government institutions. And a separate line was written prohibiting her from approaching Netanyahu and "any facilities where he may be."
However, there are still those who want to look for traces of Iranian intelligence in this high-profile case.
In particular, there are calls to recall the case of 73-year-old businessman Moti Maman, arrested on charges of working for the Iranians a year earlier. Like "citizen X," Maman planned an assassination attempt on the Israeli prime minister and, at the initial stages, justified his plans with "high ideals." And only later, under pressure from investigators, did he admit to financial interest and contacts with Iranian intelligence services.
Alarmists insist that the current detainee could have acted according to a similar scheme.
The evidence for this version is extremely shaky.
For example, it was noted that the detainee allegedly mentioned Maman several times in conversations with her comrades and noted his "civic courage." Attempts were also noted to promote a version that the pensioner, like Maman before her, interacted with Turkish public activists and conducted "active correspondence with them on social networks," allegedly receiving "valuable instructions."
Small bloggers associated with far-right political forces are particularly zealous in this matter. And their interest is most likely due to the desire to shift public attention from inter-factional friction in the government (some of which was provoked by the far-right) to the “Iranian threat.”
However, the investigation has not yet confirmed any of the rumors being circulated. And it has also warned particularly zealous commentators about responsibility for fabricating fakes.
The desire to connect the “Maman case” and the “case of citizen X” should be interpreted rather as an attempt to further discredit the opposition in the eyes of the public and once again emphasize the “vicious connections” of the opponents of the ruling camp.
However, despite the apparent tactical benefit of such coverage, this trend does not receive support from Netanyahu – at least not publicly.
The prime minister is not interested in dividing society in the context of ongoing conflicts on external borders, nor in giving each high-profile case a “spy flair.” Moreover, the Israeli opposition is in a depressed state even without additional pressure, and it seems unnecessary to transfer resources to it.
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