Israeli governmental sources admitted that Tel Aviv's security organizations failed to prevent Egypt from completing a very important deal to launch a spy satellite in 2009. The deal represents a huge danger to Israel's national security for the satellite's ability to take pictures of military and strategic sites. Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported the Israeli government asked for the French government's interference to ban French company Asterium from selling a spy satellite to Egypt in 2009. Israel succeeded in stopping that deal, but Egypt did not give up and turned the Israelis' success in to a dismal failure and bought the satellite from Russia. The Israeli newspaper revealed that Israel is trying to get the French and Italian governments' interference again, to stop French company “Telis” and Italian company “Telistifetscio” from selling a spy satellite to Turkey. Israeli national security is exposed to severe dangers if there is any leak of information from Ankara to Israel's enemies like: Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas Movement in the Gaza strip via the satellite. The newspaper pointed out that Israel succeeded in preventing French Company Asterium from selling spy satellites to Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates before. Israel did allow Israeli company “Image Sat”, specialized in aircraft manufacture, to cooperate with the UAE to provide it with satellite images.
