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A secret Israeli military bunker under the Tel Aviv tower struck by Iran, according to an analysis
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Grayzone geolocates an underground bunker of an crucial military command and control center located in the densely populated Tel Aviv district. Known as Center 81, an American-built facility houses an highly secret intelligence base.
When Iran struck ballistic missiles into a series of targets in the heart of the North on June 13, Tel Aviv, Israeli authorities immediately surrounded the area with cordon to prevent journalists from filming the damage. "The building in this area has just been hit," said Trey Yingst of Fox News erstwhile he arrived at the HaKirya area that evening, the seat of the Israeli Ministry of Defence and the close Azrieli Centre. However, in a fewer seconds Israeli police officers came to the scene to aggressively distract Yingsta from the place where he stood, north of the HaKirya Bridge on the west side of Menachem Begin Road.
On that day, Iranian rockets hit In North Tower complex of Da Vinci apartments, about 550 meters southwest of Yingst location. The grey area has determined that the building is located straight south of the towers Israeli Air Force "Canarit" ♪ Oh, yeah ♪ "Kannarit" and the underground military intelligence bunker, jointly managed by US and Israeli troops. According to an analysis of e-mails, public papers and Israeli press reports, here is simply a highly secret, electromagneticly protected intelligence center known as "Płatówka 81".
Israel aggressively censors information about its urban military and intelligence facilities while accusing its opponents of engaging in "protection from humans" – the practice of protecting military targets with the civilian population, which is prohibited by global humanitarian law. While the existence Project US Army to grow Center 81 to an object of 6000 square meters was widely informed from government papers around 2013, a circumstantial location remained unknown.
Photo taken outside Center 81 was geolocated within the Da Vinci flat complex, which 1 of the residents condemned as a shield for Israeli military command. The e-mails that leaked from the erstwhile chief of staff of the Israeli Army indicate that hotel 81 is an crucial command and control hub. "Jerusalem Post" reported Also, that the Iranian rocket that hit Leonard da Vinci's towers was "just a stone's throw from Netanyahu's office", which was then known as "Build 22". The Prime Minister's office began to undergo renovation only a fewer weeks after the 12-day war between Israel and Iran in 2025 and it is said to have been damaged as a consequence of the strike.
The Israeli military built a larger underground command center in Kirya, known as the "Sion fortress," expanding elder Command Centre known as "Down". Given its temporal, spatial and functional proximity, it is likely that "The Pit" was connected to Area 81. Journalists Israel Hayom and The fresh York Times They visited the fortress of Zion, but did not uncover its exact location or entrance.
Geolocation "Teren 81"
Despite the abolition of American government prohibiting their publication, Google Maps inactive blur satellite images containing any traces of delicate Israeli strategical information. On an episode of Leonardo da Vinci Street, straight in front of the Leonardo da Vinci Towers, Google went 1 step further in its pro-Israeli censorship, refusing to share pictures of the street view. The area east of Leonardo Da Vinci and west of the Azrieli Center is besides censored by Moscow maps of Yandex, with completely blocked satellite photos and metadata of Leonardo da Vinci towers.
Image of Terra 81 published by the United States Army Engineering Corps in February 2013 as part of corrosive test The coating of the underground structure and galvanized steel plating can be geolocalised at the site where the Da Vinci residential skyscrapers are now located, with the confederate of the 2 18-story Kannarit towers of Israeli air force just a fewer metres away. By website Kannarit skyscrapers published by Israeli construction company Danya Cebus, buildings were "built for [Israeli] Air Force Command". Israeli company Alumeshet for aluminum buildings described its work on towers in 2002 as including the construction of a "explosion mitigation strategy that ensures maximum safety".
Haaretz reported about the existence of an Army Corps study stating that Center 81 was located somewhere in the centre of Tel Aviv. A closer analysis of the image in the study reveals that it was taken about 60 metres north of Eliezera Kaplan Street, on the east side of Leonardo da Vinci Street, in the southwest corner of Ha'Kirya.
The east wall of the 29-story Daniel Frisch Tower fills most of the background photos of the Army Corps, which shows 2 large boxes with instruments to be transported to the Center 81 basement. Located about 160 metres northwest of the photographer, trees from Gerry Pencer Park partially obscure the base of the tower, and the London Ministores Tower highest is besides visible on the right.
The features of the Army Corps photograph precisely match those of the photograph published in Google Maps from February 2019 from the southwest corner of Eliezer Kaplan and Leonard da Vinci, which contains the same 5 distinctive curved pipes connected to the Kannarit tower just above barbed wire.
Kirya complex located among human shields
Detailed report France 24 regarding Israeli censorship of reports of Iranian attacks states that the accounts of the attack on 42-story Leonard Da Vinci's towers were most likely intentionally delayed, stating that "it seems to be censorship." Israeli paper Haaretz waited until June 29 to mention this strike in article – full 2 weeks after the attack, even though the photos from it were already circulating on the Internet.
Speaking of this incident, The Israeli media a fewer weeks later, 1 of the residents recalled that he had been informed of the actual destiny of the tower in a conversation with a friend who asked, "Brother, do you not realize that they approved the construction of all these skyscrapers to defend Kirya?"
"Today I realize that I paid 12,000 shekels [$3,650] a period for Kirya's protection," explained the resident, utilizing a popular shortcut to Israeli military command.
Geolocation of the photos from Center 81 suggests that Da Vinci Towers besides defend the secret underground intelligence center. Bunker is reportedly little than 100 metres from the playground, next to a large cultural centrewho
at the base of the towers in July 2023. Putting any of its most delicate military installations in the heart of the civilian area, Israel became active in the practice of covering people, which it routinely accuses Palestinians of.
The tenants of the eight-story commercial building located in the Da Vinci complex besides have direct links with military intelligence. Israeli company dealing with generic artificial intelligence AI21 Labs, which was founded by veterans of the IDF radio-electronic intelligence arm, Unit 8200, early this year confirmed participation of AI21 staff in the improvement of a ChatGPT-like military AI tool aimed at Palestinians. AI21 – which is besides related au Stanford University – announced lease the space on the 4th and 5th level of the Da Vinci office building in late 2023.
Israeli-American capital finances towers
Next to Da Vinci complex, Kannarit towers were built by a large Israeli construction company Danya Cebus, which She said the work was carried out as part of a joint venture with another company known as Sorel Boneh. In mid 2018, controlling stake of the parent company Soleh Boneh, Shikun & Binui, passed from Shari Arison, erstwhile The richest woman in Israel, for real property developer from Los Angeles Netanala H. Saidoff's "Naty".
Saidoff oversaw respective affiliated non-profit organizations in the Los Angeles area of Israel-American Council (IAC) and guaranteed the StandWithUs legal program, a pro-Israeli training group. Shikun & Binui's board member, Saga Balash, was the first CEO of both the IAC and the Israeli-funded propaganda initiative Concert/Voices of Israel.
Perimeter 81's office with a suggestive name for cybersecurity – now part of Check Point Technologies' listed stock exchange – besides located About 40 metres west of the alleged location of Center 81. Check Point is in the process of creating new premises in Tel Aviv with Israel Canada Groupwith Acro Real Estate purchased rights to the Da Vinci complex in 2015 from a site previously owned by the Ministry of Defence for NIS 830 million (about $20 million). The current CEO of Check Point, Nadav Zafrir, commanded Unit 8200 in years 2009-2013.
Public US contract registers It follows that the branch of the German M+W Group based in Plano, Texas – now known as Exyte – began a $7.4 million contract in June 2011 for the construction of Center 81, including company support for Army Corps research. In August 2013, a much larger "Faza 2" of Site 81 task was subsequently awarded a controversial Oxford Construction company from Pennsylvania for US$29.6 million and contracts were transferred to Oxford national after bankruptcy under Chapter 7 in 2017 In 2018, Oxford Construction received court actionIn which its owners were accused of extortion, fraud and negligence. Final payment of USD 758 461 for Oxford national for the work "Faza 2" in Center 81 was processed on February 26, 2019.
The e-mails that have leaked item the usage of Center 81 for "command and control"
Previously unpublished electronic correspondence between erstwhile NATO commander James Stavridis and erstwhile chief of staff of the Israeli army Gabi Ashkenazi appears to confirm the presence of a command and control network operating in the bunker of Center 81 – in the midst of a densely populated civilian area.
"Hi Gabi" – wrote Stavridis to the Ashkenazi on September 1, 2015. "I work in the US with an breathtaking company called Think Logical. They are building command and control networks and have just won a large contract in Center 81 with the IDF [Israeli defence Forces]".
Grayzone discovered Ashkenazi's email in an archive that leaked from an alleged Iran-related hacktivist group known as Handal, whose curator erstwhile American non-profit organization Distributed Denial of Secrets.
"I enjoy my fresh occupation as Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy here in Boston – the leading school of global relations," we read in an email from Stavridis, who asked the Ashkenazi to aid recruit "someone who would aid [Thinklogical] decision around Israel" as a consultant – the best "emerged IDF general".
It seems that after asking for comment from The Gryazone, Stavridis joined his wife and executive assistant by chance the answer that was, "See this? Are you sure? He's ending. The news was accompanied by an extended footer describing Stavridis' current roles as Vice president of Global Affairs The Carlyle Group and president of the Board of Rockefeller Foundation.
General Ashkenazi and Pajer did not respond to requests for comment. The Israeli Defence Forces besides did not respond to requests sent by email to 3 different address spokesmen.
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