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Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/03/21/inside-the-assassins-serving-iran-in-israel/
Revealed: Iran Came Close to Assassinating Senior Israeli Officials
(Israel Hayom) Itay Ilnai - Three weeks before Oct. 7, 2023, Israeli intelligence received information that Hizbullah, at Iran's direction, was planning to assassinate former Israeli Defense Minister and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya'alon. On Sep. 15, 2023, Ya'alon was planning to participate in a charity bike ride in Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park, as he had been doing for years. But before dawn, Israel Security Agency operatives told him he was not to leave the house. At 6:30 a.m. a powerful Claymore-type explosive device detonated in Yarkon Park, planted beneath a tree on Ya'alon's planned riding route. Only by sheer luck was no one hurt. With the help of security cameras, the ISA traced those who had planted the bomb and arrested them that same day. The investigation found a skilled and well-equipped terrorist cell had been operating inside Israel, headed by Ibrahim Makhoul, an Israeli citizen, recruited by Hizbullah in an operation directed by figures in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. It later became clear that the same terrorist network had planned to assassinate another former senior security figure using an additional Claymore device, someone who held one of Ya'alon's former positions.