Historical Dictionary of Israeli Intelligence

In the Mossad, Kimche was an agent recruiter and runner. In 1954, while going through a list of potential recruits, Kimche disco ...

Although Kimche was regarded as apolitical, he identified him- self with the Israeli Labor party. At the time of the 1977 genera ...

rael’s 1982 Peace for Galilee Operation, Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. The ill-starred outcome of this operation began the destr ...

of the Yom Kippur War, flatly blamed Meir for not requesting the king to be more specific and divulge when war was going to erup ...

Klingberg contacted the Soviet Union for the first time in 1957, and soon afterward he started his espionage activity. The Israe ...

Research Department of Military Intelligence(MI) in 1967–1971. He was then promoted to lieutenant colonel and until the 1973 Yo ...

he worked for the security division in the state comptroller’s office and gained a master’s degree in the national security prog ...

was the mastermind of an abortive plan to assassinate Prime Minister Golda Meir during her visit in New York in 1969. A car rigg ...

der, or where the detainee possessed vital information, such as the lo- cation of arms or caches of explosives for planned acts ...

railroad in the south of Palestine on 2 April 1948. In the 1948–1949 War of Independence, Lapidot was stationed in Jerusalem and ...

LEVANON, NEHEMIAH (1915–2003).Born in Latvia, Levanon im- migrated to Palestine in 1938. He served as the second director of Nat ...

mostly in reserve service, but he periodically rejoined the regular army. As both a reserve and a regular officer, he was a memb ...

his “contacts in Thailand were an advantage” for getting this busi- ness, and he was asked to go to Israel to conclude the deal. ...

the airport. After their interrogation, the whole cell was arrested and incriminating documents and the keys to a network of saf ...

came chief of the General Staff, with the rank of lieutenant general. Lipkin-Shahak retired from the IDF in 1998 and entered pol ...

armored buses that were the only means of transport to Ben-Shemen village, which was set amid Arab villages and towns that were ...

In November 1959 Lotz was sent to West Germany, where he spent a year generating his cover story as a former Wehrmacht officer. ...

In 1963 responsibility in Israel for running agents, Lotz included, was transferred from MI to the Mossad. His new bosses in the ...

Lotz’s position in Egypt; Lotz seemed to Osman somewhat naive about the dirty business of espionage. Lotz, inwardly savoring the ...

Matters went well for Lotz for several years. Then, in the fall of 1964, certain changes took place in Egyptian foreign policy. ...