Titi was an ambulance driver and allegedly provided his Iranian handlers with various types of intelligence, including the emergency protocols of various Israeli hospitals.
Israeli security forces on Thursday submitted an indictment against 34-year-old Israeli citizen Amir Hisham Muhammad Titi, who is accused of carrying out operations on behalf of Iran. Police said he was arrested several weeks before the indictment.
The indictment was filed on Thursday morning in the Haifa District Court. Titi is facing one count of assisting the enemy during wartime, two counts of transmitting information to the enemy with intent to harm state security, and six counts of transmitting information liable to benefit the enemy.
Titi, an ambulance driver, admitted that he was in contact with hostile parties linked to "Iran or Hezbollah" since October 2024. He said that initial contact with the handlers was through an Instagram account purporting to belong to National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. Still, he noted that during the operation he suspected that it was an enemy party rather than the minister himself.
Titi reached out to the account for help in obtaining a gun license and was gradually recruited from there.
In the final interrogation before the indictment, Titi claimed that he did not know the person he spoke with was Iranian; the prosecution noted that this was a marked change from his earlier accounts.
At the beginning of his relationship with the Iranian handlers, Titi was asked to photograph sites where Iranian ballistic missiles hit in Israel to identify "weaknesses in the Iron Dome, but he was unable to reach them.
Unable to gain access to missile hit sites, the handlers had Titi provide them with other types of intelligence, including the emergency protocols of various Israeli hospitals, which he accessed through his work. He provided them with dozens of photos and written reports about various aspects of several hospitals, according to the indictment.
Titi also reported to his handlers in real time when President Isaac Herzog and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich were visiting Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya. He also reportedly provided a photograph of the president with his security detail during the visit.
In addition to his hospital-related spy work, Titi is accused of taking on missions to collect media documentation of various locations in Israel, including Hostages Square in Tel Aviv. The indictment added that in August 2025, at the instruction of his handlers, Titi printed dozens of pictures of Israeli hostages and distributed them at a protest at Hostage Square - a task for which he received approximately NIS 3,600.
He also reportedly took photographs of the Horev Mall in Haifa as well as various locations in the town of Amikam, where former defense minister Yoav Gallant lives. The indictment also added that he was tasked with mapping the security camera system at the Haifa Museum of Art.
Titi received tens of thousands of shekels for this work, police said in their Thursday announcement, funneled through his family members' bank accounts and through a digital cryptocurrency wallet. The indictment claimed that Titi also provided his handlers with some intelligence purely to harm Israel, without financial compensation.
His most lucrative mission was to transmit data on the number of people killed and wounded in the most recent war with Iran in March and April 2026 for NIS 10,000.
As recently as May 2026, Titi's handler also offered him NIS 50,000 to "find and hit" a target that they would provide details for, and he expressed willingness to do so, but the mission never happened.
Yoav Etiel contributed to this report.