It has been confirmed by both Australian and Israeli authorities that Israel intelligence agencies helped avert the Sydney incident where a pair of brothers planned to smuggle a homemade bomb onto an Etihad plane.
At the time, Australian authorities said the brothers backed out of their plan before reaching security for unknown reasons.
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said during a radio interview that Israel was directly involved in uncovering the brothers and that they were very grateful for the assistance the fellow nation provided.