Historical Dictionary of Israeli Intelligence

announcement that a call-up exercise was to be held. Arab armies be- lieved that Israel was preparing for war and went to a stat ...

Once every two weeks, Sarah Aaronsohn would hold parties at the botanical experimental station that were as “licentious as in th ...

At age 15 he joined the Shahar, the Arab Platoonof the Palmah un- derground militia. After Israel’s War of Independence, Nimrodi ...

Kimche, former deputy director of the Mossad and then director- general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, with a lasting penchant ...

counterterrorism to the Israeli government, then under the premier- ship of Shimon Peres. He had previously served as party spok ...

for a flight to Urupan, Mexico, with an unidentified Italian partner. The airplane took off in good condition, but then experien ...

the West German designs and the Israelis on hand, they were able to begin construction. At the same time, the Gabriel missiles t ...

purchasing the missile boats. On 10 November 1969, Limon in- formed Cherbourg shipyard officials that the Israeli government had ...

were dismissed for their part in approving the sale of the missile boats to the fictitious Starboat Line. Seven days after leavi ...

uranium missing from NUMEC’s Apollo plant sparked the curiosity of the FBI, the CIA, Congress, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC ...

On 3 October 1957, France and Israel concluded an agreement for the construction of a 24-megawatt (MW) research reactor at Dimon ...

that safety procedures are alarmingly inadequate, and that workers be- come contaminated, being exposed to high levels of radiat ...

actor, but they found no hard evidence of weapons-related activities such as the existence of the plutonium-reprocessing plant. ...

1979 the Mossad was believed responsible for two explosions at a construction yard in Seine-sur-Mer, France. Two research reacto ...

leave the country, although it did not hand him over to the Turkish au- thorities. Öcalan went to Russia first, and from there h ...

On 15 February 1999 a Falcon 900 executive jet landed at Nairobi’s Wilson Airport. The pilot told the airport authorities that h ...

Technical specifications of Israeli satellite capabilities are not pub- lished. However, based on foreign sources, Ofeq-3 is cap ...

OFFICE OF SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS.See BUREAU OF SCIEN- TIFIC LIAISON. OPERA OPERATION.The code name of the Israel Air Force (IAF) bo ...

ing and leaving Tammuz-1 was to be last light so that the aircraft would be directly in front of the setting sun, making it more ...

been previous instances of former Mossad operatives threatening to publish some kind of story about the Mossad if they were not ...