JERUSALEM, Aug 23 (AFP) - The ex-wife of a "mole" working for Israel's Shin Beth domestic security service, said Monday she was claiming damages from the state for having used her without her consent.
"My ex-husband used me under order from his superiors as a cover for infiltrating" Jewish ultra-nationalist groups, she complained to Israel public television.
The woman, a former Jewish settler in the West Bank who identified herself as Ila, said her ex-husband had not told her he was working for the Shin Beth.
"Not only has he betrayed me personally, but he has betrayed the way of life in which we believed," she told the channel.
"One month before the marriage, he asked me if I would marry a Shin Beth agent, and I said 'yes' without paying much attention to the question," she added.
At the end of the 1980s, her husband admitted he worked for the Shin Beth but vowed to cut all ties with it, she said, slamming his words as "nothing but a trick".
Following the divorce, she realised her ex-husband had been a Shin Beth agent paid by the state for 20 years, and was now demanding compensation.