Prosecutors filed charges Thursday against a 22-year-old from Beersheba suspected of spying for Iran during his mandatory military service.

The suspect, Rafael Reuveni, allegedly maintained contact with an Iranian intelligence agent since September. The handler recruited him to take videos in a park near his home, and photograph a bus station and a shopping mall in the southern city, according to the indictment.

He was arrested in late October by police, based on intelligence collected by the Shin Bet, and was indicted in the Beersheba District Court on charges of maintaining contact with a foreign agent and passing intelligence to an enemy.

Reuveni was also accused of sending his handler mostly fabricated information about the army base where he served, after the agent asked him about the base’s personnel and emergency procedures.

The defendant told his handler the truth about his specific job at the base, but when asked to substantiate the details with video evidence, he refused, and the two began to argue about payment, prosecutors said.

Later on, the agent asked Reuveni to provide him information on his fellow soldiers at base in exchange for NIS 50 ($15) per person.........

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