Gabi Ayub was an Israeli Shin Bet captain. The son of an Egyptian father and a Lebanese mother, he was twice divorced and frequently took remote desert vacations. Ayub was on good terms with Abu Maher, head of the Palestinian Preventive Security, collaborating with him to fight terror threats such as ISIL; he also collaborated with Mista'arvim commanders Mickey Moreno and Eli Daniel in their fights with Hamas and ISIL. In 2023, he traveled to Brussels, Belgium to meet with his informant Omar Tawalbe, whom he had helped raise, and who said that he was concerned for his safety due to the other members of his Hezbollah cell treating him with suspicion. When Ayub went to meet Tawalbe, Tawalbe murdered Ayub's Mossad bodyguards and took Ayub captive, holding him at an apartment in Molenbeek. He tortured him into betraying the names of the Shin Bet informants in Jenin, and he was shot by one of Tawalbe's henchmen when he lashed out at his captors as they attempted to move him from his apartment to Lebanon. Ayub was rescued by a desperate blood transfusion, and he was brought to Lebanon, where he was held by Haj Ali until Hezbollah received news that two Israeli agents had infiltrated the country. Hezbollah made plans to take Ayub to a Syrian airfield and, from there, to an Iranian prison well beyond Israel's reach, but the Israelis staged a daring rescue mission that killed Haj Ali and freed Ayub. Ayub, vengeful for Omar's betrayal, stole Doron Kabilio's gun and shot Omar dead. On his return to Israel, Ayub recuperated from his wounds, but he endured a long depression after learning that the informants and Israeli operatives he had informed on had been killed by Hezbollah.
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