The Glilot base is located in northern Israel. It is the largest eavesdropping base in Israel, the backbone of intelligence, and responsible for espionage and cybersecurity. It includes the central headquarters of the Military Intelligence Division (Aman), and the main headquarters of Units 8200 and 9900.
the site
It is located in the city of Ramat Sharon, near the city of Herzliya, about 1.5 kilometers from the city of Tel Aviv, and about 110 kilometers from the Lebanese border, and its area is about 250 thousand square meters.
The base includes the Aman Intelligence School, the division’s communications battalion building, and contains giant satellite dishes, communications antenna poles, and a maintenance area.
Next to it is located one of the headquarters of the Israeli foreign intelligence service, Mossad, as well as the Intelligence Heritage Center and a memorial site for members of the intelligence community.
Tasks and units
The base includes the main headquarters of Units 8200 and 9900 and the Military Intelligence Division (Aman), and the following is a definition of each one of them:
The largest unit in the Military Intelligence Division, its mission is to collect basic information. It specializes in secret operations, code-breaking, counter-intelligence, and cyber warfare. It provides 80% of the intelligence information collected and produced for all intelligence branches. This unit often participates and carries out its work from within combat zones.
The unit moved to Camp Glilot in 1953, and its name was then 515. The “Maram” department specialized in computer systems was established there. It then became a central intelligence agency and participated in collecting information about senior figures in Hezbollah during the July 2006 war.
The unit runs the “Urim” military base located in the Negev Desert, and it failed to predict the Al-Aqsa flood, which took Israel by surprise on October 7, 2023, as resistance fighters were able to infiltrate it, raid it, and kill those inside it, and obtained intelligence files, sensitive information, and valuable equipment. Without damage.
- “Unit 9900” is the younger sister of Unit 8200
Unit 9900 specializes in gathering geographic and visual intelligence, deals with the fields of optical decoding, micro-mapping and satellite mapping, and has a pivotal role in strategic planning of operations and countermeasures.
The unit consists of 6 sub-units:
- The satellite unit specialized in providing intelligence information.
- The drone unit specializes in conducting air sorties and obtaining accurate images.
- The mapping unit specializes in creating real-time maps of operational needs.
- Decoder.
- War management unit by transmitting intelligence information to soldiers during confrontation.
- Chlef aerial reconnaissance unit.
An intelligence service affiliated with the Israeli army, which is responsible for collecting and analyzing military information, providing war warnings, and working in coordination with the rest of the other Israeli intelligence services according to the assessment of the objectives.
It is the most expensive device for Israel’s budget, the largest storage center for information and the most prominent consumer of it, and the division has a huge computer network that is also the largest.
According to Israeli law, the Aman Service is primarily responsible for providing the government with strategic assessments on the basis of which public policies are formulated, especially with regard to the conflict with Arab countries.
stations
Units 8200 and 9900 were subjected to intelligence failure several times, including the failure to provide early warning of the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle launched by the Palestinian resistance on the settlements surrounding the Gaza Strip in October 2023.
The unit led 8,200 activities on social media after October 7, 2023, targeting Hamas leaders and its military apparatus, and focusing on inciting feelings of hatred against the resistance.
In June 2024, the Israeli Channel 7 reported that the Israeli army imposed a reprimand on about 30 soldiers and officers, after discovering a serious security vulnerability, which enabled them to access confidential information at the base, after the inspection team was able to impersonate an officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel and colonel and infiltrate the base and collect it. tip.
On August 25, 2024, Hezbollah announced that it had targeted the Glilot base with 340 Katyusha missiles and a number of drones, in response to Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah leader Fouad Shukr, who was serving as Chief of Staff of the party’s military wing.
On October 21, 2024, Hezbollah announced that it had targeted Al-Qaeda with “specific missiles” and a number of sites.
