Former U.S. four-star general Jack Keane reacts to the killing of a Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah from an IDF strike and a possible response from Iran.

Last month, Israel stunned sci-fi and espionage genre junkies by brilliantly executing another daring, sophisticated covert operation, in which it eliminated dozens of Hezbollah terrorists across Lebanon. To achieve their mission, sometimes Israeli spy services take advantage of their targets’ reliance on or fear of technology. Sometimes, they exploit human psychology and weaknesses. Here’s how.

The September operation was said to be conceptualized by Israeli intelligence around 2020, when the now dead Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah issued an order to his fighters to replace mobile phones with pagers and walkie-talkies. His concern emanated from Israel’s successful use of geolocation capabilities embedded in cell phones for targeted assassinations of terrorists. Nasrallah repeated his warning as recently as eight months ago, when he referred to cell phones as "lethal collaborators."

"Disable it, bury it, lock it in a metal box," he said in a speech posted on YouTube on Feb. 13.

Shortly after Nasrallah’s order to augment security by going low-tech came about, Israeli intelligence launched a multi-year complex clandestine operation. A network of front companies posing as an international pager manufacturer was set up, which serviced ordinary commercial clients and Hezbollah. It included a front company in Hungary, which manufactured pagers on behalf of a Taiwanese company, and two additional shell companies.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, attends David Barnea's oath-taking ceremony as the new head of Israeli national intelligence service Mossad in Tel Aviv, Israel, on June 1, 2021. Yossi Cohen, left, the outgoing head of Mossad, also attended the ceremony. (Photo by GPO/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Multi-layer security was intended to protect the identities of the Israeli intelligence operatives who were producing the pagers specifically for Hezbollah. Unlike the standard production process used for the regular clients, pagers intended for Hezbollah were produced separately and contained........

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