{"id":626684,"date":"2026-09-16T18:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/626684\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T18:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:36:13","slug":"israelis-in-ireland-concealing-former-intelligence-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/626684\/","title":{"rendered":"Israelis in Ireland concealing former intelligence roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">More than a third of the Israeli ex-intelligence agents based in Ireland exposed by The Ditch in 2024 have scrubbed details of their Israel Defense Forces (IDF) service from their LinkedIn profiles.<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gh-feature-image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_3335.jpeg\" alt=\"Israelis in Ireland concealing former intelligence roles\"\/><\/p>\n<p>More than a third of the Israeli ex-intelligence agents based in Ireland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontheditch.com\/former-spy-israeli\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exposed by The Ditch in 2024<\/a> have scrubbed details of their Israel Defense Forces (IDF) service from their LinkedIn profiles.<\/p>\n<p>One of the eight ex-soldiers concealing their past includes a senior Dublin-based Google employee who served seven years as a military intelligence officer in the IDF.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another former intelligence corps soldier deleted their LinkedIn profile after The Ditch\u2019s report created a new account without reference to their military past under a different version of their name and is now studying for a master&#8217;s degree at Trinity College Dublin \u2013 as Palestinians continue to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontheditch.com\/palestinian-visa-refusal-rate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">denied the opportunity<\/a> to study in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>The other six Irish-based former IDF personnel work for Google, Stripe, Meta, TikTok, Salesforce and Honeywell.<\/p>\n<p>One previously worked as a security officer in Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s office, while another worked as a security policy adviser for the same office.<\/p>\n<p>The Ditch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontheditch.com\/government-grants-residency-to-idf-soldiers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported last week<\/a> that Jim O\u2019Callaghan\u2019s justice department granted residency to Israelis who served in the Israel Defense Forces during the Gaza genocide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than a third of the Israeli ex-intelligence agents based in Ireland exposed by The Ditch in 2024&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-626684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}