December 8, 2008
Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC)  
Exporting the Iranian revolution to Lebanon: Iran and Hezbollah operate an extensive network of cultural and religious institutions as well as publishing houses. This network is used to inculcate Lebanese society, primarily the Shi'ite community, with Iranian radical Islamic ideology.  
Nurturing the personality cult of Khamenei (left) and Khomeini (right) through books distributed by Hezbollah in Lebanon.

December 10, 2008
Yoram Schweitzer
INSS Insight No. 83 

The murder spree in the streets of Mumbai prompted the question whether we are witnessing a new kind of terror that exceeds the level of murderousness of previous terrorist actions, or was this a matter of terror strategists adhering to basic operational principles in order to achieve a known spectrum of objectives.

December 8, 2008
IICC
1. Over the weekend of December 5-6, rocket and mortar shell fire from the Gaza Strip into Israel escalated . Seven rockets were fired (one of which fell in the Gaza Strip), one hitting Ashqelon 's industrial zone. Eight mortar shells landed in Israeli territory. Four of the shells, of the nine fired at Kerem Shalom, landed in Egyptian territory. The Egyptian security forces warned Hamas and placed responsibility for the event on it (Al-Yawm al-Sabaa website, December 6). None of the rockets or mortar shells caused casualties or property damage.

December 9, 2008
The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new Arabic-language audio recording from Al-Qaida Deputy Commander Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri released on December 1. During the recording, titled "The Death of Our Heroes and Betrayal of Our Rulers", al-Zawahiri hailed the recently-executed culprits behind the 2002 nightclub bombings on the island of Bali - who "did not change, did not substitute, and did not compromise an inch in their ideology and in their determination to perform jihad on behalf of Allah and to drive the enemies of Islam away from the lands of Islam.