Like CIA false flags and FBI entrapment ops, this is not about a rouge IDF operator. This is an historical IDF institution.

The Mista’arvim are elite Israeli undercover units whose operatives disguise themselves as Arabs to gather intelligence, infiltrate protests, rescue hostages, and engage in counterterrorism operations. Mista’arvim is a Hebrew word derived from the Arabic musta’ribeen (singular: musta’rib), which means those who “disguise themselves as Arabs,” initially describing non-Muslims who adopted Arab culture following the Islamic conquest.

In the 1940s, the term was adopted by the Palmach, a Zionist paramilitary group that later became the core of the Israeli army. The term was used to describe its unit comprised of Jews who grew up in Arab contexts and were trained to conduct espionage missions. The first Mista’arvim unit, known as the “Arab Department” (Ha-Machlaka Ha-Aravit), was established in 1942 as a unit of the Palmach. The unit was founded when the Jewish establishment cooperated with the British mandate authorities in Palestine during World War II. The British needed intelligence agents to infiltrate the local population in the Levant and impede German plans in the region.

With Germany’s defeat, the British no longer needed the platoon, eventually leading to its disbandment. The platoon was soon relaunched as an independent unit of the Palmach called Ha-Shahar (dawn), with its main objective to penetrate Palestinian communities for espionage and sabotage purposes. Following the establishment of Israel in 1948, the term Mista’arvim was used to describe undercover units comprised of Jewish fighters required to pass as Arabs to execute various undercover missions, such as arrests, assassinations, and intelligence gathering. These units initially comprised Arabic-speaking Mizrahi Jews (Jews from the Middle East and North Africa). Still, later units included both Arabic-speaking Mizrahi Jews and Jews who studied Arabic before or during their military training.

Former Israeli special forces member Elon Perry said, “Mista’arvim must have courage, patience, alertness, self-confidence, and charisma.”

In 1986, Ehud Barak created a more sophisticated and better-organized mista’arvim force called Duvdevan (Hebrew for cherry). Established in 1986, shortly before the outbreak of the First Intifada in 1987, Duvdevan’s primary goal was to identify, locate, capture, or kill terrorists. The recruits, who often include Druze and Bedouin, are comfortable with Arabic culture, language, and customs. They look, talk, and dress like Arabs. -JP
The terror group Daesh, otherwise known as the Islamic State. Such speculation has been fueled by Israel’s reference to Daesh as a “useful tool” and its acknowledgment that it views a Syria under complete Daesh control as preferable to the continuation of the current Syrian government. It is supported as well by the extensive aid and even medical treatments that Daesh militants have received from Israel. However, allegations have recently emerged that could suggest that the connection is even deeper than previously believed.

According to a report from the Israeli website Inian Merkazi and Abna news agency, Libyan security forces arrested a Daesh commander in the city of Benghazi — only to find out soon after that the man they had captured, Ephraim Benjamin, was also an agent of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service. Benjamin, who was known in Libya as Abu Hafs, had begun work in Libya after the 2011 NATO-led invasion of Libya that ousted former leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Middle East Monitor reported that Hafs/Benjamin was said to have become a prominent imam in a Benghazi mosque, before becoming a Daesh leader who commanded more than 200 fighters. Middle East Monitor has since removed the report from its site.

Libyan authorities have allegedly accused Benjamin of gathering intelligence information on Daesh for Mossad and Middle East Monitor noted that some Libyan news outlets took to calling him the “Mossad shiekh.” Inian Merkazi suggested that Benjamin’s arrest showed that Mossad was influential in the rise of Daesh in the region, given that Benjamin began work in Libya in 2011 while Daesh did not begin operation in Libya until 2015.
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