Historical Dictionary of Israeli Intelligence

the Egyptian consulate in Genoa. He told the Egyptians everything about his past as a SS soldier and an IDF officer hoping that ...

SCHUMACHER, YOSSELE (1953– ).In 1960, Schumacher, an Is- raeli Jewish boy, was without his parents in his grandparents’ apart- m ...

synagogue in Hendon were at once exposed. The congregation called the police and the “religious” agents were arrested. They were ...

In short order, Harel extracted the entire story. In 1960, in a scheme planned in advance, Frei had been contacted by Yossele’s ...

with him. He invited him to cafés, to dinners, and to expensive Broad- way shows. Each time, he got from Pollard a sheaf of docu ...

in the operation it could never have taken place without high-level ap- proval. On 1 March 1987, a few days before Pollard was s ...

Palestine. Sereni alienated many in the British Army for his staunch Zionist views, and he was imprisoned briefly for allegedly ...

from prison and allowed to leave the country for Israel. They became Jews by choice. Shahin’s family lobbied the Egyptian govern ...

Shalom’s career in the ISAspanned three and a half decades. He par- ticipated in major clandestine operations, including the joi ...

Retiring from the IDF with the rank of major general, Shaltiel joined the Foreign Ministry as Israeli minister in Brazil and Mex ...

German electronics engineer who had worked on the Nazi V-2 rocket project during World War II. Harel himself joined Shamir and h ...

1933, Sharett was elected to replace him. As head of the Political De- partment, Sharett conducted negotiations with the British ...

rector in 1989. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Middle East Studies from Hebrew University and a master of public administration ...

Shiloah was a confidant of Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben- Gurion. In July 1949 Shiloah counseled the prime minister t ...

SIMAN-TOV, BINYAMIN (1947– ).Born in Iraq, Siman-Tov immi- grated to Israel in 1950. He was drafted into the Israel Defense Forc ...

agreements and in what amounted to an act of war, Egypt sealed off maritime access to the Israeli port of Eilat, effectively sto ...

the border by the Iraqi Army to be a casus belli. Countries as a whole across the world, like many Israelis who read newspaper h ...

accomplished its tasks on the eve of and during the Sinai Campaign fostered greater expenditure on MI and the allocation of addi ...

filtration and terroristattacks on Israelis. The capture and hanging of Eli Cohenin Damascus in 1965 only fueled the flames. Ara ...

have wished to instigate a conflict in order to humiliate Israel or to instill a sense of invincibility in the Arab camp. In fac ...