Historical Dictionary of Israeli Intelligence

would later get him out of the country if his regime was toppled (see MOSES OPERATION). Sharon and Kimche went further and pro- ...

1982, which specifically prohibited military assistance to the Con- tras. One of the administration officials involved was Colon ...

halted. The third director of the ISA, Amos Manor, ordered the de- struction of the section’s political archive, which contained ...

immigrants did not cease. In the ISA there existed a nameless unit, or one isolated from the others sections and units, whose fu ...

Today the ISA is responsible for security against any who seek to undermine Israel by terrorist activity or violent revolution. ...

Jewish Department, who was responsible for photo-montage pictures of Rabin in Nazi SS uniform displayed at a right-wing rally, i ...

The ISA task is to provide intelligence on when and where the target will be vulnerable to the strike. The required information ...

except in a state of emergency. The law’s provisions concerning inter- rogation methods have not been made public. In 2005, at t ...

tor is immune from prosecution. However, the part of the law on in- terrogation methods was not made public. The law also ruled ...

government resolved to establish a commission of inquiry in accor- dance with the Israeli Commissions of Inquiry Law of 1968. Th ...

KALMANOVITCH, SHABTAI (1947– ). Born in Lithuania, Kalmanovitch trained as a chemical engineer. Soon after his studies, he joine ...

ministers. He was also a close friend of Boris Rotskoy, the deputy of President Boris Yeltsin. Rotskoy was subsequently arrested ...

KARON, DAVID (1915–?).Born in Russia, Karon went to Palestine in 1931 to study agriculture and then returned home. In the Spanis ...

Shemer in a stolen jeep. Shemer and Ekstein were former employees of the Israeli Security Agency(ISA). The police arrested them ...

Hadera and in the early 1950s became the leader of a criminal gang that stole cars and handled stolen property. Even the gang me ...

When Kedar landed in Israel, he was arrested as he exited the plane. He was tried in early 1962 in a military court and sentence ...

tion (PLO); and spiritual godfather and chief of Black September Or- ganization. He was the PLO’s third-ranking member after Ara ...

but the would-be assassins were caught and arrested by the Jordanian police and interrogated. This fiasco caused enormous embarr ...

world. The CIA offered $1 million for a copy, but because the CPSU Congress was so secret, it was impossible to get an agent ins ...

The members of the Kilowatt Group are the European Union coun- tries; Canada; Norway; Switzerland; the United States, represente ...