3-Year Iranian Influence Op Preys on Divides in Israeli Society

Recorded Future's Insikt Group details a yearslong Iranian influence campaign dubbed "Emerald Divide" (aka Storm-1364) that has run in phases since 2021 to exacerbate social and political divisions in Israel. The operation uses generative AI and impersonation on platforms like YouTube and Telegram, maintains a coordinated inauthentic behavior network of ~250 accounts (including seven primary Telegram accounts), and has harvested protestor PII via Google forms; Recorded Future links behavioral evidence to prior reporting from Microsoft and Israeli security services.