Israeli man arrested on charges of spying for Iran

Agency says he was in contact with Iranian intelligence to recruit Arab Israelis to carry out terrorist attacks

Israeli Police check car at a roadblock at the main road near the Israeli Arab village of Abu Ghosh leading to Jerusalem. EPA  

An Israeli was indicted on Tuesday on charges of spying for Iran and preparing terrorist attacks, the domestic intelligence agency Shin Bet said.

It said the man had been in contact with Iranian intelligence to recruit Arab Israelis to carry out the attacks.

The man, arrested on March 16 in possession of encryption equipment and a computer hard drive, had been paid and tasked with providing information on "strategic sites" in Israel, Shin Bet said.

He also had contact with a member in Lebanon of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, it said.

He was charged in a court in the central city of Lod with "serious infringement of the security" of Israel.