An Auckland court sentenced two Israelis suspected of being Mossad spies to six months in prison on Thursday after they admitted trying to obtain a New Zealand passport fraudulently.
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark suspended all high-level contacts with Israel on Thursday after the men were jailed.
Here are some previous international scandals involving Mossad and other Israeli intelligence agencies.
1954: Egypt cracks Israeli Military Intelligence cell of Egyptian Jews who firebombed sites frequented by Westerners to embarrass Cairo and stop it nationalising the Suez Canal.
Two are hanged, one commits suicide and six others are jailed. Defence Minister Pinhas Lavon quits, though denies authorising plot.
1963: Swiss police arrest an Israeli and an Austrian after a German scientist's daughter accuses them of threatening her - part of a Mossad intimidation campaign against Germans suspected of helping an Egyptian missile programme. Mossad chief Issar Harel resigns. Detainees are freed after a few months.
1967: Two suspected Mossad agents arrested in Germany while breaking into a home believed to belong to a former official of the Nazi Gestapo.
They are released as a goodwill gesture to Israel after the 1967 Middle East war.
1973: Mossad assassins shoot dead a Moroccan-born waiter in Norway, mistaking him for one of the Palestinian masterminds of an attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics in which 11 Israeli athletes died.
Five agents are tried, but eventually released. Israel offers compensation to the waiter's next of kin.
1985: US Navy analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for passing intelligence to Lakam, an Israeli agency specialising in scientific co-operation. Israel apologises to the United States and dismantles Lakam. Pollard is sentenced to life in prison.
1991: Four Israelis, widely reported to be Mossad agents, are arrested during apparent attempt to bug Iranian embassy in Cyprus. They are released for lack of evidence.
1997: Two Mossad assassins are captured by Jordanian authorities after a failed attempt to kill Khaled Meshaal, a leader of the Islamic militant group Hamas. They are sent home after Israel frees jailed Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin.
1998: A group of Israelis is discovered trying to tap the phones of a suspected Lebanese Hizbollah militant in Switzerland.
In a closed-door trial, one Israeli, described in the media as a Mossad agent, is fined and given a suspended jail sentence. His three accomplices are released.
-- In Cyprus, two suspected Mossad agents are arrested and charged with spying on sensitive military installations. They are released after nine months in prison under a plea bargain.
2004: Uriel Zoshe Kelman and Eli Cara are sentenced to six months in prison by an Auckland court after they admit trying to obtain a New Zealand passport fraudulently.
Israeli officials do not comment on allegations from Wellington that the two men are linked to the Mossad intelligence service.
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