Historical Dictionary of Israeli Intelligence

in units of two or three team members, disguised as Arabs. From late 1947 they made countless sorties into the villages and the ...

years. As economic and political conditions in Ethiopia deteriorated, tens of thousands of Jews set out to cross the border into ...

could help by allowing the United States to take the Ethiopian Jews out of the refugee camps. The Sudanese official found this l ...

On 28 March 1985 the U.S. operation, code-named Sheba, began. Israeli Ethiopian Jews working for the Mossad identified the Ethio ...

MOSHEL, AHARON.A German-born Jew, Moshel was a journalist working for the French edition of Jewish Observer and Middle East Revi ...

practical purposes, it wasthe Political Department, although in fact not all of the Political Department was transferred to the ...

The special operations division, known as Metsada (formerly known as Caesarea), conducts sabotage and paramilitary projects. A ...

the 1972 Munich massacre; the kidnapping of Mordechai Vanunu in 1986; providing the intelligence background for the Osirak nucle ...

1968); Zvi Zamir(1968–1974); Yitzhak Hofi(1974–1982); Nahum Admoni(1982–1990); Shabtai Shavit(1990–1996); Danny Yatom (1996–1998 ...

of illegal immigrants reached the shores of Palestine on dozens of ships, such as the Exodus 1947. When caught by the British, t ...

The Israeli response to the Munich massacre involved widespread reprisals against all individuals and organizations thought to h ...

he saw Nafsu going to bed with a PLO member as well as a Lebanese Christian. The implication was that Nafsu was homosexual, and ...

function is to serve as a coordinating, integrative, deliberative, and supervisory body on matters of national security and to o ...

post at the NSC until the appointment of a new chair. One can expect that Eiland’s successor as NSC chairman will be no more tha ...

States. The benefit to the United States from supporting Nativ was access to intelligence about the Soviet Union and other Commu ...

offices in Israeli embassies in the Former Soviet Union (FSU) coun- tries as well as in Israeli consulates in the West. Clearly, ...

in the bureau of Admiral Binyamin Telem, who instructed the Israeli Navy to prepare for war. The next day, Lunz tried to convinc ...

and deputy commander of the Operations Department of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) General Staff. From 1952 to 1954 he was com ...

the Planning Commission of the Seas Project. Intermittently from 1982 to 1996 he was member of the Knesset, minister of science ...

NEW ZEALAND PASSPORTS.In November 2003 two Israelis, Uriel Kelman (age 30) and Eli Cara (50), arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, ...