Israel's foreign intelligence service Mossad has obtained coronavirus testi...
FILE PHOTO: Women walk by the shore of the Mediterranean Sea after Israel's health ministry urged people not to leave their homes except to seek"vital needs and services" in new directives in precautionary measures against coronavirus, in Tel Aviv, Israel March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Corinna Kern
According to some local media reports, the Mossad haul included 100,000 kits procured from Gulf Arab states that do not formally recognize Israel but which have pursued low-level coordination on regional security challenges such as Iran. Separately, the Health Ministry director-general thanked Mossad for providing it with “important and working-order kits” - phrasing that may have been aimed at dispelling media speculation that the equipment could prove defunct.
The Mossad test-kit mission was apparently so secret that even Israel’s intelligence minister was kept in the dark.
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