According to information revealed by the Yad L'Achim organization on Tuesday, agents of the Israel Security Agency (ISA; Shabak) tried to recruit some of the volunteer group's activist members into the service of the state. 
The rescues involve significant risk to both the women and the Yad L'Achim operatives.
A leading Torah scholar told the Yad L'Achim operatives, who are regularly involved in rescuing Jewish women and children from abusive Arab families in Israel, that their work is just as important to the nation as that of the Shabak.
Shabak agents anonymously approached five veteran activists in Yad L'Achim, according to the organization. For the past several months, activists say, they have been subjected to intensive pressure to join the Israeli agency "for the sake of saving the People of Israel." Details of the recent series of meetings and pressures, as well as the identities of those involved, could not be further revealed due to considerations of operational security.
Yad L'Achim regularly carries out operations within Arab villages and towns rescuing Jewish women, along with their children, who seek to return to their people after having married Arab men. Under Islam, a person who accepted Islam and later became an apostate, as most of the rescued Jewish women have done, is subject to the death penalty. Often, the rescues involve significant risk to both the women and the Yad L'Achim operatives, and they always entail great secrecy.
Faced with the Shabak persuasion alongside their commitment to their activities in Yad L'Achim, the five activists approached one of Israel's leading Torah scholars seeking his advice. Upon hearing the details of the situation, the rabbi became emotional and told the activists, "Your activities with Yad L'Achim redeeming captives save the People of Israel no less than the activities the Shabak expects you to carry out."
In addition to rescuing Jewish women and children from Arab towns, Yad L'Achim is well known for its activities countering Christian missionary activity in Israel.
'Divine Activists' Lend a Hand
In the wake of the Shabak interest in his activities, the chairman of Yad L'Achim, Rabbi Shalom Dov Lifschitz, this week wrote a letter to the head of the Shabak, Yuval Diskin, inviting him to observe the volunteer organization's activities first-hand.
"Instead of going through hidden channels, you are hereby invited to get a first-hand impression of the activities of Yad L'Achim rescuing souls and redeeming captives," Rabbi Lifschitz wrote, "and to see with your own eyes that it is only oversight from On High that guides the activists and brings those rescued to safe shores."
Rabbi Lifschitz went further and said that Yad L'Achim benefited from the help of unseen activists as well. "Our success is due to nothing but the Divine fact that every activist is joined by an angel that guarantees his success in the mitzvah of redeeming captives. I have no doubt that supernatural Heavenly assistance accompanies every one of [our] activities."