Exhibition in honor of 60th anniversary
Photo: Jonathan Zur
Weapons displayed at exhibition
Photo: Jonathan Zur
Exhibition offers rare peek into IDF Intelligence activity
After much deliberation, in honor of 60th anniversary, IDF Intelligence Corps decides to make exhibition showing surveillance units, weapons, Hizbullah operations publicly available
The Intelligence Corps plans to open its doors to the public in honor of Israel's
60th Independence Day. An exhibition of IDF weaponry and activities will be displayed at the intelligence training base, allowing visitors a peek into the daily lives of soldiers and officers working for the most covert corps in the IDF.
The exhibition will include a model describing the inner workings of Hizbullah, showing the way in which the organization's operatives utilize Lebanon's landscape to disguise their weapons, as was done during the Second Lebanon War.
For example, launching areas from which rockets were fired towards Israel will be displayed.
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The exhibition will also include different weapons used by Palestinian and Lebanese organizations, such as rockets, mortar shells, shrapnel bombs, cameras, and anti-tank missile launchers used by Hizbullah against IDF tanks during the war.
The IDF has also prepared a model tunnel similar to those dug by terrorist organizations on the Israel-Egypt border in order to smuggle weapons. According to intelligence reports, Palestinians are able to dig four to 15 meters a day, depending on the soil and the proficiency of the diggers. Many also use global positioning systems.
Another display allows a rare peek into the signal intelligence unit 8200. Visitors will be able to view soldiers listening in on calls traced by technologically advanced systems. A video has also been compiled, broadcasting rare audio fragments used by intelligence during the Entebbe operation.
Chief Intelligence Officer Brigadier-General Yuval Halamish admitted that the IDF was skeptical about making the exhibition publicly available, and finally only some of the material was approved for public display.
"I invite all Israeli people to witness the exhibition, and the important activity of the Intelligence Corps," ha said.
