Terrorist groups - home based:
Kahane Chai (Kach): aim(s): expel Arabs from Israel's biblical lands and, ultimately, restore the biblical state of Israel area(s) of operation: Israel and West Bank settlements, where operatives have conducted bombings and shootings against Israeli Arabs and Palestinians; considered to be operationally inactive in recent years

Terrorist groups - foreign based:
Abdallah Azzam Brigades (AAB): aim(s): disrupt Israel's efforts to establish security area(s) of operation: responsible over the years for numerous lethal rocket attacks fired into Israeli territory from Lebanon into densely populated areas, especially Nahariyya and Ashqelon
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade (AAMB): aim(s): drive the Israeli military and West Bank settlers from the West Bank and impel Israelis to leave Jerusalem and, ultimately, establish a Palestinian state comprising the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Jerusalem area(s) of operation: launches rockets and missiles into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip; conducts suicide bombings in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem; on 27 January 2002, operative Wafa IDRIS became the first known Palestinian female suicide bomber and the first known female suicide bomber to conduct an attack inside Israel, when she detonated her vest in Jerusalem, killing an 81-year-old woman and wounding at least 100 other people
Army of Islam (AOI): aim(s): disrupt Israel's efforts to provide security and, ultimately, destroy the state of Israel to establish a regional Islamic caliphate area(s) of operation: has a history of launching rocket attacks into Israeli territory mostly from the Gaza Strip; attacks have ebbed in recent years
Hizballah: aim(s): destroy the state of Israel area(s) of operation: has been operational across Israel at various times since Hizballah's incepetion in 1982, especially in the north, and launching numerous rockets and other airborne projectiles and devices into Israeli towns in many regions; on 12 July 2006, a 34-day military conflict between Hizballah and Israel was precipitated when Hizballah fired rockets on several Israeli towns, while operatives crossed into northern Israel from southern Lebanon to attack an Israeli army convoy, killing eight and abducting two soldiers; intense fighting took place in Lebanon, northern Israel, and the Golan Heights until a UN-brokered ceasefire went into effect on 14 August 2006; responsible for hundreds of Israeli deaths over the years
ISIL Sinai Province (formerly Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis): aim(s): destroy the state of Israel and, ultimately, establish a regional Islamic caliphate area(s) of operation: launches rockets into southern Israel from the Sinai Peninsula, primarily in the Eshkol region and approaching the southern city of Elat; outlawed in Israel
HAMAS: aim(s): lift Israel's blockade surrounding the Gaza Strip and, ultimately, destroy the state of Israel area(s) of operation: operatives have launched tens of thousands of projectiles directed at Israeli urban areas over the years, resulting in numerous long-running lethal conflicts between HAMAS and Israeli forces; primarily stages projectile attacks from the Gaza Strip into Israel; regularly digs underground tunnels leading to Israeli territory for the purpose of smuggling fighters or supplies in and out of the country; on 25 June 2006, operatives kidnapped Israeli soldier Corporal Gilad SCHALIT near the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Israel and held him until 18 October 2011, when he was released as part of a prisoner exchange; two soldiers were killed and two others injured during the kidnapping
Mujahidin Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC): aim(s): destroy the state of Israel area(s) of operation: primarily operational in the south, with a limited presence by 2017; the majority of veteran members have defected to join other groups; had previously participated in numerous rocket attacks into southern Israel's populated areas, such as Sderot, from the Gaza Strip and Egypt; most of the launchings were in coordination alongside the Army of Islam (AOI), another US-designated foreign terrorist organization
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ): aim(s): committed to the destruction of Israel and creation of an Islamic state in all of historic Palestine as defined by the British Mandate, including contemporary Israel, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank area(s) of operation: launches attacks from the Gaza Strip into Israel; responsible for thousands of rocket attacks and numerous suicide bombings against Israeli civilians and military personnel over the years, primarily in southern Israel; PIJ's first female suicide bomber killed 22 people and wounded 60 others on 2 October 2003, when she detonated a powerful explosive at the Maxim Restaurant in Haifa
Palestine Liberation Front (PLF): aim(s): destroy Israel and, ultimately, establish a Palestinian state area(s) of operation: maintains a limited operational presence; until recent years, operatives conducted occasional shooting and IED attacks against Israeli Military targets inside Israel, including bombing Israeli planes
PFLP-General Command (PFLP-GC): aim(s): destroy the state of Israel area(s) of operation: primarily northern Israel; attacks have ebbed in recent years
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP): aim(s): destroy the state of Israel and, ultimately, establish a secular, Marxist Palestinian state area(s) of operation: mostly active near Jerusalem; on 18 November 2014, four members with guns, axes, and knives stormed the Kehilat Bnei Torah Synagogue in West Jerusalem, during prayer services, killing four rabbis and a congregant and wounding at least eight; responsible for several attacks on citizens over the years