Historical Dictionary of Israeli Intelligence

On the morning of 23 May, the Israeli cabinet held a briefing with the participation of the director of MI, Major General Aharon ...

IAF was against the Egyptian air bases and was launched in two waves. The Israeli aircraft flew out over the Mediterranean and t ...

things were going badly. Nasser tried to convince the king that the air attack on 5 June had been carried out jointly by the Isr ...

helping to organize the near-impossible logistical feat of the Solomon Operation, at great risk to his own life as well as the l ...

considered an important agent after he led his case officer to a Fatah contact man in Nablus whose address he had obtained from ...

there, he was arrested by the British police. In his interrogation he named all the Israeli case officers working under diplomat ...

Sharett, and the director of the Mossad, Reuven Shiloah, decided that the intelligence-collecting function should be removed fro ...

who were then in Beirut. Others who were involved in the massacre were killed in Europe (see WRATH OF GOD OPERATION). The Mossad ...

raid weapons-manufacturing facilities and fuel dumps that the Pales- tine Liberation Organization maintained in the Tyre-Sidon a ...

Union was well aware of the risk it was taking by stationing MiGs out- side of its own borders in the service of foreign armies. ...

pressures the Iraqi government was imposing on him and other Ma- ronites. Some of his friends had even been imprisoned, and he w ...

The new commander of the IAF as of April 1966, Major General Mordechai Hod, met Redfa himself to plan the MiG flight together. A ...

fected with his MiG-21 to Israel. It was no surprise when, during the Six-Day Warin June 1967, the IAF demonstrated its superior ...

TAMARI, DOV (1936– ).The Israeli-born Tamari was conscripted into the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in 1954. For 15 years he serve ...

mandated territory, and then by various plans to partition the area stretching westward of the river to the Mediterranean Sea. B ...

Cairo, and on 6 November 1944 they carried out the assassination; they were quickly caught. The Jewish Agency in Palestine denou ...

A week later, news of a massacre of 40 Jews in a pogrom in Poland reminded the Jews of Palestine how Britain’s restrictive immig ...

Jewish immigration in accordance with “the numbers and interests of the present population.” Syrian-born Sheikh Izz ad-Din al-Ka ...

seems to indicate that the Jordanian authorities were opposed to it. However, the lower-ranking officials and military commander ...

Many Palestinians fled to Jordan and destabilized its political system. Within months, Israel was again the target of a wave of ...