Unit 8200

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Location of Unit 8200 on Mount Avital , Golan Heights

Unit 8200 ( unit eight two hundred ) (יחידה 8200 or jechida shmone matayim in Hebrew ) is a unit of the Israeli armed forces for telecommunications and electronic reconnaissance , which is responsible for the extraction of signal intelligence information and for code decoding. The unit reports to the Aman Military Intelligence Service .

history

Unit 8200 was established in 1952 using excess American military equipment. Originally it was called "2nd Intelligence Service Unit" (German: 2nd Intelligence Service Unit) and then "515th Intelligence Service Unit" (German: 515th Intelligence Service Unit). In 1954, the unit was relocated from Jaffa to its current location at Glilot Junction.

Former employees of Unit 8200 founded leading Israeli high-tech companies, including: B. Check Point , ICQ , Nice, AudioCodes and Gilat. Two companies involved in the Room 641A scandal uncovered by Mark Klein in 2006 and the surveillance and espionage affair in 2013 were founded by former Unit 8200 employees: Verint Systems and Narus produce high-performance real-time eavesdropping systems and were developed by former members of the unit launched.

It is believed that Unit 8200 of the creators of Stuxnet - computer worm was that in 2010 Control Systems Iranian plants for uranium enrichment sabotaged.

In September 2014, a group of 43 reservists from the unit announced in a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that they would refuse to serve in the West Bank . They said they could no longer support the service's practices which "violate the rights of millions of people" and aim to deepen military control over the occupied territories. In the context of an all-encompassing espionage, information from the private sphere of life such as homosexuality or adultery would be used extortionately in order to recruit collaborators among the Palestinians. The refusal of urgent medical treatment also serves as leverage to B. Get information about relatives that the service is looking for. Other members of the unit initiated a reply in which they sharply rejected the allegations made.

For "violating the standards and morals of the Israeli army," all 43 members involved in the letter were fired.

literature

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Gil Kerbs: The Unit. In: forbes.com. February 8, 2007, accessed January 6, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Highlighting cyber vulnerabilities, rogue ex-soldier revealed to have hacked IDF . ( timesofisrael.com [accessed November 29, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Michael B Kelley: DID YOU KNOW ?: Two Secretive Israeli Companies Reportedly Bugged The US Telecommunications Grid For The NSA. In: businessinsider.com. June 7, 2013, accessed January 6, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Israel seen as prime cyber attack suspect. In: upi.com. October 28, 2010, accessed January 6, 2017 .
  6. ^ I24news: Top Israeli minister slams conscientious objectors. (No longer available online.) In: i24news.tv. September 13, 2014, archived from the original on June 4, 2016 ; accessed on January 6, 2017 (English).
  7. ↑ Refuse Israel's elite reservists ( Memento from September 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Middle East conflict: Israeli elite intelligence officers no longer want to spy on Palestinians. In: Spiegel Online . September 12, 2014, accessed January 6, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Counter-Letter Published Against Leftist IDF Refusers. In: israelnationalnews.com. September 12, 2014, accessed January 6, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Julia Amalia Heyer: Israeli soldiers criticize the occupation: The brave. In: Spiegel Online . September 12, 2014, accessed January 6, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Protest against Palestine policy - Israel's army dismisses 43 reservists. In: sueddeutsche.de . January 27, 2015, accessed January 6, 2017 .