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The SHABAK duties are:

• Protect the lives of senior public officials (see also: bodyguards).
• Secure important infrastructure and government buildings.
• Ensure the security of El-Al, Arkia and Israir flights and Israel's embassies abroad.
• Counter-espionage.
• Expose terrorist organizations of Israeli civilians (both Arabs and Jews) and thwart their schemes.
• Interrogations of terror suspects.
• Providing intelligence for counter-terrorism operations in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

One of the Shin Bet's roles is to protect the lives of senior Israeli ministers and public servants (such as the president). The Shin Bet is also responsible for the prevention of funding of underground movements and terror groups whose members are Israeli citizens. It accomplishes this goal using interrogations and secret agents.

The Shin Bet is most known for its role in the conflict against those it considers Palestinian terrorists. The Shin Bet produces intelligence which enables the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) to thwart suicide bombingA suicide bombing is a bomb attack on people or property, committed by a person who knows the explosion will cause his or her own death (see suicide). Historically the term has been used by Western media as far back as World War II in reference to the acts before they reach their destinations. The Shin Bet's intelligence has enabled the IDF to target senior leaders who they consider among Israel's enemies, mainly those of HamasHamas acronym of Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah ( Arabic: Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas is also Arabic for 'zeal' or 'courage') is a Palestinian Islamist paramilitary and political organization, regarded by some as a militant organization and by o, but also of the Islamic JihadPalestinian Islamic Jihad PIJ Arabic Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami al-Filastini is a militant group, widely regarded as terrorist throughout the world, whose goal is the destruction of the State of Israel and its replacement with an Islamist state for Palest, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the FatahFatah (Arabic: al-fatah literally: "the victory through holy struggle") is a Palestinian faction founded in 1959 by Yasser Arafat, who until his death, was head of the Palestinian Authority. Fatah is the reverse spelling of the acronym Hataf (Harekat at-T and even one Al-QaedaAl-Qaeda ( Arabic: #x627;لقاعده "the foundation" or "the base") is a militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in 1988 to expand the mujahideen resistance movement against the Soviet occupa linkman ( Iad Al-Bik ).

Some consider the quality and quantity of the intelligence gathered by the Shin Bet among the best of the world's secret service agencies.

In November 2003 four former heads of Shin Bet, Avraham Shalom , Yaakov Peri , Carmi GillonCarmi Gillon is a former Israeli ambassador in Denmark and a former head of the SHABAK. He was sacked as the head of the SHABAK because of the failure of SHABAK to prevent the assisnation in Israeli prime-minister Izhak Rabin. He was highly criticized for and Ami AyalonAmi Ayalon is an Israeli former admiral and today, a peace activists. Ayalon served as an commander of the Israeli Navy and reached the rank of admiral. He later served as the head of the Shin Bet Israel's internal security service. On June 25, 2003, Ayal called upon the Government of Israel to reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians. [1].

See also: Israel Defence Forces, MAGAV, Mossad.