Residents of the village Majed Sha'ar, 58, his wife Mona, 48 and their son Fada, 27, and Mahmoud Masarwa, 62, an Israeli Arab from Bakka al-Gharbiya, are suspected of spying on Israel for the Syrian intelligence, Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) said in a statement.
 

The four were arrested In July. Fada was arrested on his return to Israel from France where he had been studying.
 

Mona admitted to maintaining contact with the Syrian agent but refuted charges that she was involved in relaying information to him and was released to house arrest.
 

According to the ISA, Majed allegedly relayed information to Madhat Salah, a former resident of Majdal Shams who fled to Syria twelve years ago and serves in the Syrian intelligence and is responsible for the Golan Heights area.
 

Majed transmitted the information to Salah via his son who studied in France. The ISA suspect his wife was also involved in transmitting the information to the Syrian agent, the ISA said.
 

The three confessed to investigators plans to abduct a Syrian pilot who defected to Israel with his plane in 1989. They located the whereabouts of the pilot and his family and allegedly relayed the information to Salah.

Majed allegedly filmed locations of Israeli army bases and mapped out the locations of possible entry points the Israeli Army may use to enter Syria, the ISA said. The information also included the number of troops, tanks and air force planes deployed in the area. Majed also allegedly passed on information to the Syrian agent concerning an Israeli submarine he spotted in Haifa bay.
 

Majed and Masarwa admitted to meeting Syrian intelligence agents on a number of occasions in recent years in Turkey, Jordan and Egypt, the ISA said.