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Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i Naval Intelligence Department is a staff unit in the Israeli navy headquarters. Like other IDF intelligence

Intelligence (information gathering)

Intelligence assessment is the development of forecasts of behaviour or recommended courses of action to the leadership of an organization, based on a wide range of available information sources both overt and covert. Assessments are developed in response to requirements declared by the leadership...

 bodies, it is professionally subordinate to the Intelligence Directorate

Aman (IDF)

The Directorate of Military Intelligence is Israel's central, overarching military intelligence, of the Israel Defense Forces. Aman was created in 1950, when the Intelligence Department was spun off from the IDF's General Staff ; the Intelligence Department itself was composed largely of former...

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The NID is responsible for providing the Corps and the IDF at large with the naval intelligence picture, as part of the Intelligence Community

Israeli Intelligence Community

The Israeli Intelligence Community is the designation given to the complex of organizations responsible for intelligence collection, dissemination, and research for the State of Israel...

. It provides warning of war or terrorism from the sea; instructs and trains the Sea Corps' on areas related to field intelligence, intelligence-related human resources, and hydrography

Hydrography

Hydrography is the measurement of the depths, the tides and currents of a body of water and establishment of the sea, river or lake bed topography and morphology. Normally and historically for the purpose of charting a body of water for the safe navigation of shipping...

; and coordinates between the Sea Corps and other elements in the Intelligence Community.