With a major spike in COVID-19 cases hitting Israel, authorities are again tracking those infected with the deadly virus and locking down the hardest hit areas in the Jewish state.

Among those apprehended is Mahmoud Bakir, a senior smuggler who works with terror groups in Gaza. His arrest constitutes a significant operational achievement.

According to a Ministry of Health report, Israel’s Security Agency identified 4,089 cases as of May 10, the Calcalist reports.

Israel's Shin Bet thwarted 560 terror attacks in 2019 alone.

The Shin Bet's second-to-none counterintelligence efforts focused on sabotage, terrorist activities, and other security threats to the citizens of Israel.

'The two support ISIS and even see themselves as its emissaries until such time as an Islamic State [branch] is formed in Israel,' said the Israeli Shin Bet security agency.

PM Netanyahu commended 'the operational-intelligence effort that led to the thwarting of a terrorist attack that Hamas planned to carry out on our territory.'

Israeli security agencies say they foiled a major Hamas cyber attack on vital infrastructure this past weekend.

Israeli security forces conducted an early-morning raid, arresting 22 terror suspects and seizing weapons and funding for terror. 

At the funeral for Ori Ansbacher on Friday, hundreds of tearful mourners sang a song of Redemption ahead of the heartbreaking eulogies and burial.

Israeli forces were successful in tracking down and killing two Palestinian terrorists responsible for separate recent murderous attacks.

Palestinian terrorists fired at Israelis near Givat Asaf, north of Jerusalem, killing two and seriously wounding two others. 

A Shin Bet investigation revealed an ongoing plot to smuggle cell phones into prisons that stretched back as far as 2016.

In a new tactic, Hamas leaders in Gaza take advantage of Israel's humanitarian decision to allow ill Palestinians into the country for medical treatment.

Hamas in Gaza and Turkey and Hezbollah in Lebanon are working around the clock to attack Israelis in Judea and Samaria, the head of Shin Bet said.

May was the most violent month since October 2015, with Palestinians carrying out 365 attacks.

A large terrorist network in the Nablus region that plotted major attacks in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem has been foiled by the Shin Bet and IDF in recent months.

Israel's security forces carried out several successful operations to thwart Palestinian terrorism.  

Gazans captured by Israel after being sent by Hamas to Israel's border revealed the terror group's deep involvement and exploitation of the March of Return.

Israel has thwarted numerous foreign-originated cyber attacks in the past year, revealed the head of Israeli intelligence.

Israeli security forces arrested another Israeli Arab who planned to carry out an attack in ISIS' name.

Israel Security Agency head says over 1,100 'lone wolf' terror attacks were thwarted in 2017, nearly tripling last year's 400.

Israeli security forces arrested three Israeli Arabs who were planning a terror attack on the Temple Mount on behalf of ISIS.

Israel's security services prevented 200 terrorist attacks from more than 70 Palestinian terrorist cells since the beginning of 2017.

'The Shin Bet, alongside its partners, has succeeded —through technological, intelligence and operational adjustments—in locating more than 2,000 potential lone terrorists since the beginning of 2016.'