Israel saw brisk immigration by Iranian Jews in the 1950s and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Tehran. That provided a enormous pool of potential spies with Farsi fluency from home.

Targets included PM Netanyahu, Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat, Canadian security delegation.

“The Finnish people that lived here turned their life to be with the same as the local life of the Jewish people", said Tsuriel Bar David, manager of the Yad HaShmona hotel.

“No one can be recognized as a friend of Israel if he is an antisemite,” Rivlin declared.

“They are harming that symbol. They are making us fear something that is so beautiful, clean and playful, and has connotations of family, community, love and happiness.”

Amnesty called on the coalition and member states to acknowledge the scale of devastation, make public necessary information for an independent investigation and make reparations to victims.

"The enemy knows that if they hit us once they will be hit 10 times more."

The investigation was opened after police received a complaint from a woman who said she was sexually harassed by senior officials during the period she worked at the council.