Tel Aviv, November 25: A Mossad training operation has ended in a fiasco after a trainee spy for the secret service agency was arrested while trying to bomb a car.
The trainee was booked on Monday after a female passerby noticed him plant a fake bomb under a vehicle on a street in Tel Aviv and reported the suspicious behavior to the police.
Israeli authorities have refused to comment on the incident.
But Israeli media outlets have expressed their surprise at the incident, saying they hoped the agency’s operatives were “more effective abroad”.
Up to three Mossad employees were believed to have been suspended following the incident, Ynet reported..
The prime minister’s office said it did “not respond to information about such activities undertaken by security agencies or attributed to them,” the Israeli news website added.
Mossad does not inform local uniformed police about its training exercises.
——Agencies