Libya has arrested a prayer leader and preacher of the ISIS terrorist group who later confessed to be an officer working for the Israeli national intelligence agency, Mossad.

According to the Libyan authorities, the real name of ISIS preacher Abu Hafs was Benjamin Efraim, an Israeli national operating in one of Mossad’s special units which conduct espionage operations in Arab and Islamic countries.

The Libyan authorities said the Mossad spy has started his career in Libya by leading a 200-member ISIS-affiliated group and moved to Benghazi in disguise as a preacher.

According to them, Abu Hafs had attempted to infiltrate into Egypt, adding that the group, under his command, is among the most barbaric terrorist groups which had threatened to export war to Egypt.