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Sayanim provide assistance of various kinds to Mossad officers operating in foreign countries. This assistance can include facilitating medical care, money, logistics, and even overt intelligence gathering.
Sayanim can be Judges, Court Clerks, Expert Witnesses, Child Protective Service Workers, Assistant District Attorneys, Police Officers, or anyone with a great degree of power over peopleโs lives, and "will do anything" at the behest of Mossad case officers (katsa) for the State of Israel against its enemies or those perceived to be unfavorable politically to Israeli policy. Sayanim are supposedly not directly involved in intelligence operations , and are only paid for their expenses.
โA sayan, singular for sayanim, must be 100% Jewish, and in many cases a dual national.โ