03 — ORGANIZATION
The Israeli Intelligence Community
Israel's intelligence community is a set of separate bodies — foreign intelligence (Mossad), internal security (Shin Bet), military intelligence (Aman), military signals collection (Unit 8200) and past specialized bureaus (Lakam) — coordinated under political authority. This page maps the documented structure.
Evidence Assessment
The institutional landscape and its general structure.
Internal coordination detail is only partially public.
Key Facts
- Structure:
- Separate bodies, not a single agency
- Members:
- Mossad, Shin Bet, Aman, Unit 8200, and others
- History:
- Includes Lakam (1957–1986)
- Evidence:
- Documented generally
A set of separate bodies
The community is coordinated but not unified: foreign collection, domestic security, military intelligence and signals intelligence sit in different institutions. The encyclopedia corrects the common habit of attributing everything to the Mossad.
Historical scope
The record includes bodies that no longer exist, such as Lakam, and the evolving military units. Each has its own documentation status.