HaModi'in BeMishtarah ["Police Intelligence": police manual providing techniques for intelligence-gathering]

(ISRAEL, STATE OF)

for the Israel Police Force Central Command

n.p

January, 1967

On front cover: "Sodi" [confidential] ,Copy no. 00099.”

The manual begins with a glossary of police professional terminology (pp.1-6, including definitions into English), much of which appears to have been inherited from the British C.D. Of particular interest are the lengthy instructions as to how to infiltrate organizations whose avowed aim is the disruption of law and order in the State. Thus we are given the following examples: An extremist Charedi organization that aims to forcibly impose Sabbath observance; the organization Ha'Olam HaZeh which sought to organize a large convoy of vehicles in order to disrupt Sabbath observance in Jerusalem; the Al-Ard sports club whose purpose is to inculcate its' youth with a nationalist Arab consciousness so as to undermine the territorial integrity of the State of Israel; This document issued six months prior to the Six Day War, which of course brought immeasurably greater challenges to the State of Israel