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The Orem Military Base (Yarkon) is one of the most important facilities for spying and gathering intelligence information for the Israeli occupation. It is the headquarters of Unit (8200), which is the most prominent Israeli military intelligence unit, known by the abbreviation (Aman), and its location is in the city of (Herzliya) north of Tel Aviv.
the site
The base is located west Negev desert Southern Palestine, halfway between Gaza strip AndBeershebaIt is two kilometers north of Kibbutz (agricultural settlement) “Urim,” and 30 kilometers from Beersheba.
Its location – in the contact area between the continents of Asia and Africa – played a role in the possibility of monitoring communications and signals on a large scale.
Foundation
The base was established with American, British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand cooperation to intercept and spy on calls around the world. It includes 30 antennas of different sizes, in addition to a full row of satellite dishes, radars, and towers. It is subject to strict security protection, represented by high fences, electronic gates, electrical wires, and police dogs.
Tasks and capabilities
The missions of the Orem base are as follows:
- Interception of telephone calls and maritime communications.
- Monitoring and eavesdropping on personal computers.
- Monitoring and jamming satellites.
- Intercepting signals of various types, in addition to e-mail messages.
wide range
The base was created to monitor satellites, expanded to include maritime communications, and then targeted regional satellites. The information collected by Al-Qaeda is sent to “Unit 8200”, where it is analyzed, translated and transmitted to an intelligence service. Mossad And the rest of the Israeli army units.
Its scope of work extends to wide geographical areas reaching the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Asia. As a result of this geographical expansion and the amount of information received, this base has become equal in capabilities to a number of the largest espionage bases in the world.
In its intelligence field, the Orem base relies on monitoring, eavesdropping, photography, jamming, and other activities.
Workers at the base
This base is considered Israel’s ears and eyes. It was secret and was not announced until 2010, when information about it was leaked through Western media.
Due to its importance, it was largely kept secret, to the point of not announcing the identity of its leader or its employees, who are chosen according to their competence and talents since the study stage, and are considered among the best minds in the army.
Achievements that Al-Qaeda praises
Those in charge of the Orem base say that they were able to penetrate the Iranian nuclear reactors by launching the Stuxnet virus, which is one of the most famous electronic viruses, and is linked to infrastructure sabotage.
This program is of the type known as a “computer worm”, which is a stand-alone program that does not depend on anything else and is created with the aim of destroying and stealing the data of Internet users, or causing harm to them.
These programs are characterized by their rapid spread and difficulty in getting rid of them, due to their ability to color, replicate, and evade.
Those in charge of Al-Qaeda also say that they intercepted a phone call between the late Egyptian president Jamal Abdulnasser And the late Jordanian king King HussainDuring the first day of the June 1967 war.
They also said that they intercepted a phone call between the late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat The group that hijacked the Italian ship Achille Lauro in 1995.
Failure in the face of the “Al-Aqsa Flood”
Despite Al-Qaeda’s ability and “multiple successes”, it failed to know the details and preparations of the Qassam Brigades for the operation Al-Aqsa flood Which surprised the Israeli occupation on October 7, 2023, as fighters entered Al-Qassam Brigades This secret base, they killed those in it, and took from it very sensitive intelligence files and equipment.
Al-Qassam fighters knew how to find this secret base among several bases next to it. Then they were able to move around and reach exactly the back gate of the base, which was empty. They succeeded in withdrawing from the site after completing their mission there and finishing off a number of the occupation forces.
