Historical Dictionary of Israeli Intelligence

Sheikh Ahmad Yassin) and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The Intifada’s terror efforts against the Israeli population centered on two ...

Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Fatah were said to have at their disposal enormous quantities of weapons and explosive devices, which ...

gregation for excessive anti-Arab religious zeal. Kahane was mur- dered in 1990 by El Sayyid Nosair, a member of an Arab terrori ...

TEVEL.See MOSSAD. THIRD MAN, THE. See BAD BUSINESS; ELAD, AVRAHAM (AVRI). THOMAS, JACK LEON (?–1962). An Egyptian-born American, ...

young Egyptian-Copt army officer, as a candidate for their espionage network, disregarding word from Tel Aviv to await further i ...

thought that they were just interrogating Tobianski as a suspect and did not know that they had sentenced him to death. Afew hou ...

immigration to Israel known as the Yakhin Operation. On those vis- its even his family did not know of his whereabouts. In the m ...

which at the time was embroiled in a civil war in Algeria, since the Algerian rebels were supplied and trained by Egypt and othe ...

whom were Arabs; the rest were Jewish students at Hebrew Univer- sity in Jerusalem and the University of Haifa. It opposed the e ...

groups in Israel like Matzpen. ISA agents succeeded in penetrating these groups, including the new underground organization. In ...

– U – ULSHAN-DORI COMMISSION.This commission was appointed by Prime Minister Moshe Sharettto investigate who gave the order for ...

After Meir Amitbecame the director of the Mossad in 1963 the functions of Unit 131 were moved from MI to the Mossad. UNIT 132.Th ...

UNIT 8200.The signals intelligence (SIGINT) unit in Military Intelli- gence(MI). According to foreign sources, its original name ...

– V – VANUNU, MORDECHAI (1954– ).Born in Marrakech, Morocco, to a right-wing Jewish family, Vanunu immigrated with his parents a ...

group and converted to Christianity. He found a job driving a taxi part-time. Among the faithful in the prayer group was a Colom ...

British, Vanunu would be kidnapped in Italy. A Mossad “female assis- tant agent,” the young and attractive Cheryl Ben-Tov, known ...

meter) cell. He was deprived of basic rights, including access to news- papers, radio, and television. He was permitted a short ...

the Suez Canal, although in practice the army group intelligence of- ficer was required to provide this kind of information. But ...

teries were operational, and 16 were manned by 3,000 Soviet person- nel. These batteries had an effective range to 12.5 miles (2 ...

Moshe Dayan. The committee authorized the assassination of all the individuals involved, directly or indirectly, in the Munich m ...