Hizballa places the advantage of Israeli Arabs in their ability to attain highly appreciated intelligence for both Iran and Hizballa, which constitutes an Iranian front in the Middle East.

Generally, Hizballa's activity against Israel can be divided into 3 categories:

• Activity in the Territories (West Bank and Gaza Strip) – which has accelerated since the last uprising in late September 2000, and is manifested by extensive support of Palestinian resistance, including: financing and directing existing Palestinian infrastructures in conducting attacks against Israel; providing military knowledge in explosives; smuggling high-quality weapons into the field, also through the sea (as in the case of the freighters Santorini and Karine A), and dispatching activists for training abroad.
  Throughout the uprising dozens of infrastructures operated by Hizballa had been revealed, most of them in Samaria (two thirds) and some in the Gaza Strip. Most infrastructures are affiliated with Fatah's Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, although cooperation is also held with other terror organizations such as Hamas, PIJ and PFLP.
  
  
• Using foreigners sent to Israel for intelligence collection missions or executing terror attacks. Among them are prominent examples such as Hussein Maqdad (1996) who was severely wounded during a failed attempt to assemble an explosive charge in an eastern Jerusalem hotel, and Iad Khaled Ashuah, born in 1966, a Danish citizen of Lebanese descent, who was recruited by Hizballa while visiting his relatives in Lebanon. Ashuah arrived in Israel (Jan. 2005) under a tourist cover assigned with tasks which include: information collection and documenting of security facilities, as well as spotting candidate recruits for Hizballa. In effect, Ashuah was instructed to focus on Israeli Arabs with nationalistic views or personal motives in order to facilitate their recruitment. Prior to his arrest he had already begun approaching 2 Israeli Arabs for recruitment.
  
  
• Hizballa identifies the great advantage in Israeli Arabs, which stems from their being Israeli citizens, who enjoy freedom of movement and accessibility to targets, including security targets; they are familiar with the language and culture, hold social and economic contacts with Israelis, and are also have access to both the Territories and abroad.

Hizballa handling of Israeli-Arab sources
Apart from inflaming terror activities against Israel by recruits from the Territories, Hizballa ascribes great importance to learning and adapting to the adversary. For that purpose, Hizballa dedicates extensive efforts to mobilizing collaborators from among native Israeli Arabs through intelligence collection on various subjects, such as:

• Israel's security layout
• Civilian infrastructures (electricity, energy, chemicals)
• Israeli Politics and social atmosphere in Israeli society.
• Locating IDF movements along the northern border.

Hizaballa favors Israeli Arabs' involvement in terror, and strives to set up dormant cells waiting to be activated upon a call. Nonetheless, the first and foremost strategic mission is expanding the recruiting pool allowing it accessibility to necessary information.
Since the beginning of the uprising (Sept. 2000) and until 2006, ISA exposed several Israeli Arab terror groupings directed by Hizballa, most of them operationally supporting terror infrastructures in the Territories. These infrastructures carry out attacks inside Israel and acquire weapons by smuggling it from Lebanon through Israel to the West Bank.

Infrastructures and attempts for recruiting Israeli Arabs
A decade ago, Hizballa had spun an elaborate contact-web of collaborating Lebanese drug-barons for its purposes. At times, drug deals with criminal elements in Israel were conditioned not only by payments, but also by providing information required by Hizballa.
In recent years, Hizballa spotting pool among Israeli Arabs had expanded to additional pools such as radical and separatist elements with exploitable weaknesses. Actual recruiting took place mainly by Hizballa elements upon departing abroad or a pilgrimage to Mecca (Ali Ghanem, Ismail Suleiman), in student camps (Rawi Sultani), as well as among overseas students (Manar Jabarin, Khaled Kashkush).
Often family ties are used especially among the Lebanese Diaspora and among friends. Lately Hizballa is using social networks such as Facebook for spotting potential candidates.

Prominent features in Hizballa modus operandi towards Israeli Arabs
Following are few examples of Hizballa activity towards Israel:

• 2000 – Elhanan Tenebaum's kidnapping assisted by Kase Ubeid, an Israeli Arab from Taibe who subsequently fled to Lebanon and began operating there for Hizballa.
  
  
• 2002 – Ten Israeli citizens from the Galilee were detained for transferring sensitive intelligence information to Hizballa in Lebanon. The main convict, Omar Heib, born in 1963, is a Beit Zarzir resident, an IDF Lieutenant Colonel, who was accused of providing sensitive military information in exchange for drugs and money and was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. Heib, who was associated with a Hizballa affiliated Lebanese drug-dealer named Abu Said, was asked to provide information regarding IDF deployment in the Shabaa area, maps of northern Israel, locations of tank-ambushes, as well as personal details on former head of Israeli Northern Command, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi.
  
  Other detainees were Jamal Rahal, born in 1975, and Tamer Heib, born in 1971, who served as couriers transferring information and drugs into Israel. Another detainee, Amer Azal, born in 1974, provided Hizballa with Israeli cellular phones, one of which was found on the body of one of the perpetrators infiltrating from Lebanon into Israel and carrying out a shooting attack near Kibbutz Metzuva (March 2002). This incident resulted in 6 Israelis killed.
  
  
• 2003 – Two cases of espionage for Hizballa were unveiled, involving large-scale weapons and drug smuggling into Israel by several residents of the Ghajar village. The main convict, Saad Kahmuz, born in 1963, a Ghajar resident, was closely associated with Ramzi Nahara, a Lebanese drug dealer affiliated with Hizballa. In the months prior to his arrest he smuggled into Israel four tones of drugs. Kahmuz carried out video filming missions for Hizballa (from Ghajar to the Golani junction as well as in Kiryat Shmona), and at Nahara's request, transferred state-of the art night-vision goggles, electronic translation devices, reference-maps and books about the IDF, as well as the Statistical Abstract of Israel. Kahmuz accomplices were his brother Ahmed Kahmuz, born in 1981, and his son Yusef Kahmuz, born in 1982, who served as couriers of weapons and drugs.
  
  Furthermore, a grouping from the village of Reina, instructed by Hizballa to set up a terror network which will carry out attacks inside Israel, including suicide attacks - was thwarted. The main convict, Ghassan Atamalla, born in 1963, a resident of Reina village, is a senior Balad Party member who was recruited by Hizballa in the beginning of 2003, and was directed to set up a terror infrastructure among Israeli Arabs financed by Hizballa. He recruited his brother, Sirhan Atamalla, born in 1978, a Balad activist, and others. Ghassan arranged for Sirhan to undergo arms training in Lebanon, after meeting with Hizballa members in Turkey. Sirhan acquired training in arms, as well as assembling explosive devices using TNT and C4 chemical explosives. He was also trained in clandestine behaviour, shaking surveillance, etc.
  
  
• 2004 – Detention of senior members of the "Sons of the Village" movement, resident of Arabe who were recruited by Hizballa and instructed to assist terror cells in the West Bank. Both Mohammad Kanana, born in 1965, general secretary of the "Sons of the Village", and his brother Majed Kanana, born in 1971, a psychologist and a senior member, were recruited in Jordan by Hizballa spotter Ibrahim Ajawa. They were asked to transfer manuals for explosive charges and rockets to "inside" terror infrastructures in exchange for tens of thousands of dollars. The training materials were delivered in the form of footages, photographs and computer-files, stored on a memory component and concealed inside domestic electronic gear. Majed Kanana transferred the "electronic equipment" to a Jenin terror cell, financed and directed by Hizballa. The brothers were also asked to provide the spotter in Jordan with detailed maps of Israel.
  
  Ahmed Al Heib, born in 1968, a Beduoin career-army tracker from the village of Beit Zarzir, provided Hizballa with military intelligence and equipment in exchange for money.
  
  Ali Ahmed Ganaim, born in 1948, a Baka Al Gharbiya resident, was head of the haj and omrah (pilgrimage in Mecca) association in his village. As part of his work, he went twice to Mecca with financial assistance from Nabil Mahzume, formerly imprisoned for security offences, released in the Jibril Deal and deported to Lebanon. Nabil brought Ghanaim together with a foreign agent in 2003 in Mecca, presented as an Iranian. The agent asked Ghanaim to spot Arab Israeli students who would meet him in Jordan, and whom he would assign with missions in Israel, in return for funding their studies.
  
  
• 2005 – Owni Abu Johar, born in 1967, a Nazareth resident, was recruited in July 2005 by Hizballa in Uganda by a relative, a Dubai resident, who met him in South Africa. He was assigned with associating with security personnel in order to acquire intelligence for Hizballa, collecting information on IDF bases and obtaining phone numbers of drug dealers in Israel. In additional meetings conducted in Europe with his Hizballa handler, a plan was devised to promote his ties with security personnel by opening a restaurant financed by Hizballa. The restaurant would facilitate Johar with socializing and making new acquaintances. The court approved a plea bargain sentencing him to five years imprisonment.
  
  
• 2006 – Riad Mustafa Mazarib, born in 1976, resident of Beit Zarzir village, made contact with a Lebanese drug dealer. After the Second Lebanon War broke out, at the dealer's request, he supplied him with information intended for Hizballa on IDF troop movements and plans, inter alia, timing of operations, aerial strikes, parachuting troops as well as exact locations of rocket hits.
  
  
• 2007 - MK Azmi Bshara, born in 1956, Nazereth, resigned from the Knesset, left Israel and refused to return to Israel to complete his interrogation. He is accused of assisting the enemy in time of war, passing information to the enemy and laundering money received from foreign sources. The offences took place during the Second Lebanon War, for which he allegedly received payment.
  
  Manar Mufid Jabarin was offered a recruitment proposal from Hizballa while studying in Jordan in 2003-2004. The proposal was conveyed through another student in the university with whom Jabarin was socialized also after returning to Israel (2005-2007). The two also conversed about her training plan, both theoretical and practical. At the student's request, she brought a USB flash drive with her in order to pass it to local Hizballa agents.
  
  
• 2008 – Khaled Kashkush, born in 1979, a Kalanswa resident who resided and studied medicine in Germany and recruited by Hizballa agents there by a relative, Dr. Hisham Hassan, a Lebanese doctor heading a Hizballa fundraising society. Kashkush held several meetings in Germany with his Hizballa handler (2005-2008) and received 13,000€. His assignments included the spotting of Israeli Arab overseas-students for recruitment purposes, and mapping of residential and public buildings in Kalanswa. He was instructed to get a job after returning to Israel in one of the country's largest hospitals, in order to gather information on soldiers and security personnel hospitalized there.
  
  
• 2009 – Ismail Mohammad Suleiman, born 1982, a Bedouin resident of Hajajra in the Galilee, was recruited by Hizballa while on omrah in Mecca (Sept. 2008). He was recruited by a Lebanese handler, instructing him to gather information on IDF activity in his area. He was arrested prior to holding another meeting with his handler during the 2009 omrah, when he was to be further assigned by other Hizballa agents.
  
  Rawi Fouad Sultani, born 1986, a Tira resident was recruited by Hizballa in Morocco while on a Balad youth-camp (Aug. 2008) by Salman Harb, a Lebanese Shi'ite handler. In Dec. 2008 Sultani flew to Poland, where he met with another handler (named Sami). Sultani gave Sami information about IDF Chief of General Staff, with whom he used to train in a workout gym. Sultani was ordered to gather information on senior dignitaries and army bases in Israel, and transmit the information through phone or internet (Facebook).

Summary
During the past decade there had been a marked rise in Hizballa's motivation to deepen its influence among Israeli Arabs while elaborating its modus operandi. The organization's constant strive to expand its recruiting pool from among Israeli Arabs demonstrates the great importance it ascribes to this minority in its fight against Israel, while exploiting Israel's democracy. Hizballa's intensive focusing on separatist and radical elements among Israeli Arabs increases the risk level for Israel embodied in their willingness to take action against the state.

In spite of the above, it should be stressed that the overwhelming majority of Israeli Arabs are law abiding citizens who comply with the rules of a democratic state.