'Aman' : IDF Military Intelligence Directorate

 directorate, military intelligence agency

The Directorate of Military Intelligence (Hebrew: אגף המודיעין, Agaf HaModi'in – lit. "the Intelligence Section", often abbreviated to Aman) is the central, overarching military intelligence body of the Israel Defense Forces. Aman was created in 1950, when the Intelligence Department was spun off from the IDF's General Staff (then, Agam: אג"ם); the Intelligence Department itself was composed largely of former members of the Haganah Intelligence Service (HIS). Aman is an independent service, and not part of the ground forces, navy or the Israeli Air Force. It has a staff of 7,000 personnel (1996 estimate).

Order of Battle

Staff units

Intelligence Corps
Collection Department

Collection units

Unit 8200
Hatzav Unit
Visual Intelligence Branch
HUMINT Branch

Research
Research Department

Information security
Information Security Department
Military Censor
(Part of Aman, but an entirely independent unit, not subordinate to any military or political level, only to parliamentary and judicial oversight)

Other units
Supervision Department
External Relations Department
Sayeret Matkal

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