{"id":542363,"date":"2026-07-15T08:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/542363\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T08:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:25:13","slug":"israeli-soldier-who-passed-information-to-iran-during-war-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/542363\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli soldier who passed information to Iran during war sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An IDF soldier convicted of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-901616\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">spying for Iranian forces<\/a> throughout 2025 was sentenced to five years in prison by a military court, the IDF announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The soldier was accused of passing information on to Iranian agents in exchange for financial compensation, including videos of interceptions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-902552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iranian missiles<\/a> during the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to the IDF, the soldier received several Telegram messages offering him money in exchange for videos and photographs of sensitive security information.<\/p>\n<p>Among the videos the soldier is accused of sending were two of rockets being intercepted, which he had filmed during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/omg\/article-900386\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Operation Rising Lion<\/a>, as well as several he found online showing missiles hitting Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The soldier eventually confessed that he had been in contact with a foreign agent and was arrested by security forces.<\/p>\n<p>During his trial, the military court took into account that the soldier had not shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-902520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IDF<\/a> information or any footage he had obtained in his role in the military.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In addition to his prison sentence, the soldier received a 1,000 shekel fine and was demoted to the rank of Private.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An IDF soldier convicted of spying for Iranian forces throughout 2025 was sentenced to five years in prison&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20891,1031,956,85,87,46,43,17468,1464],"class_list":["post-542363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-espionage","tag-idf","tag-idf-soldiers","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-operation-rising-lion","tag-rockets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}