Israeli soldiers and police late Sunday night caught two armed Bedouin terrorists from Jordan trying to cross into Israel on a boat on the Dead Sea.
The Bedouin, estimated to be in their 40s, were trying to smuggle a number of Kalashnikov rifles, magazines of bullets and other weapons accessories.
Authorities said they caught the suspects after having investigated other suspects.
Bedouin make up a large majority of the population in Jordan and pose a growing threat to the Hashemite kingdom, despite the fact that King Abdullah himself is a Bedouin. They also have increasingly become involved in terrorist activates in Israel, frequently aiding Hamas smuggling efforts from Egypt into Israel.
Jordan and Israel are co-signers of a peace treaty, but terrorists try to cross the border occasionally.
Elsewhere Sunday night, police discovered and confiscated six stun grenades in an Arab village in the Galilee and arrested a 42-year-old suspect.