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Famous Cases
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 | Shimon Levinson (Lavi) Affair | |
| In April 1983, Mr. Levinson entered the Soviet Union's embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, and offered his assistance to the Russians. He was recruited and operated by the Soviet intelligence agency and secret police, the KGB, until his arrest in May 1991. |
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 | Rasko - Operating a Double Agent vis à vis the Romanian Intelligence | |
| In the summer of 1958, a new immigrant from Romania arrived at a government office and informed the clerk that he arrived to Israel under cover as a Romanian Intelligence agent with different espionage missions to carry out, and asked to meet a security official. He immigrated to Israel with his family only a few days earlier. |
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| The Kastner Affair (1957) | |
| Israel (Rudolf) Kastner, a leader of the Jewish community in Hungary during the Holocaust served in the beginning of the 50s as the spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry after immigrating to Israel. In the summer of 1952, Malchiel Gruenwald, a Hungarian elderly from Jerusalem, published pamphlets accusing Kastner for being a Nazi collaborator in the extermination of Hungarian Jews, a plunderer of Jewish property, and a supporter of a Nazi war criminal after the war. The pamphlets called for Kastner's assassination. |
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 | Exposure of Fatah's Large Weapon Dead Drop (1978-1980) | |
| In 1978-1980, ISA conducted a complex Intelligence operation in the Gaza Strip that exposed about half a ton of weaponry. The ammunition dump was concealed by Fatah in a Dead Drop1 (DD) in Gaza city and was the largest quantity of ammunition and weaponry seized in one DD, belonging to a terrorist organization within the Territories. |
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 | Exposure of a Jewish-Arab Espionage and Terror Network (1972) | |
| On December 7, 1972 the media released an announcement from the spokesman for the Israeli Police, Northern region: “The security establishment exposed and arrested a covert organization, operating in the northern and central part of the country on behalf of Syria. This organization included Arabs, most of whom were from the northern part of the country as well as Jews with extreme left wing views. Some of the members in the organization were spying against Israel and the organization was preparing for sabotage operations in Israel. |
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 | Anne-Marie Murphy Case (1986) | |
| On Thursday, April 17, 1986, at the Heathrow International Airport in London, El Al security agents thwarted an attempt to blow up an El Al plane in mid-air. The plane, a Boeing 747, flight no. 016 on the New York – London – Tel Aviv route, was preparing to depart with 395 passengers and crew |
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 | Capuchi Case (1974) | |
| In May 1974, three Katyusha rockets were discovered near the Armon Ha-Natziv neighborhood southern Jerusalem, aimed and ready for deployment toward the center of the city. The day before, an explosive charge composed of three bazooka bombs had been discovered in Jerusalem. |
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 | Yisrael Bar (1961) | |
| On March 31, 1961, Yisrael Bar, a senior employee in the Ministry of Defense, was arrested under suspicion of espionage for the USSR. Yisrael Bar, a former lieutenant colonel in the IDF, was a well known military commentator and an expert on military history, and was employed in a civilian job in the Ministry of Defense to write a book on the history of the War of Independence. |
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