Iron Dome in action, on May 13, 2021. (Avichai Socher/Israeli Defense Forces)
A truck driver working for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) took photos of Iron Dome air defense batteries and sent them to an Iranian-run account on Facebook, Hebrew media reported on April 25.
The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, known as Kan in Hebrew, said that the driver took dozens of photos of Iron Dome batteries while on duty and sent the footage to an account he believed belonged to a woman he was in love with.
The driver “voluntarily” documented the Iron Dome batteries with their locations and sent them to the supposed woman, only to later discover that the account was fake and that the information was handed over to an Iranian side, the broadcaster added.
The Iron Dome was developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries mainly to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and shells. However, the system can also engage more traditional aerial targets, like fighter jets, helicopters, drones and cruise missiles. The system has a maximum range of 70 kilometers.
Israel claims that the Iron Dome system has a success rate of around 90%. Nevertheless, the system’s effectiveness has been questioned on numerous occasions since it first entered service with the IDF in 2011.
During the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, the system failed to intercept thousands of projectiles, including rockets and drones, which were launched at southern Israel by the Hamas Movement and other Palestinian armed factions. It also failed to repel several rocket and drone attacks launched at the northern part of the country by Hezbollah from Lebanon.
Iranian cyber operations against Israel have been on the rise for quite some time now. In the last few years, Israeli intelligence and security forces unveiled several Iranian cyber operations which were meant to collect intelligence and even recruit spies.
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