Historical Dictionary of Israeli Intelligence

Athens, where they searched for the perpetrator at all the customs brokerages, hotels, and cafés. At last they discovered a fema ...

Kidon’s teams succeeded in tracking down and killing only some of the targets on the list: Zwaiter on 6 October 1972; Hamshari o ...

Bouchiki in Lillehammer were arrested in Oslo, and four members of the team—Dan Arbel, Marianne Gladnikoff, Sylvia Raphael, and ...

Bank, and then in August 1993 was appointed commander of the Field Units Training Center and commander of an armored division. I ...

lowing the reprimand, he downgraded the profile of providing early warnings. However, the Agranat Commissionlater praised his de ...

presented its recommendations on 31 July 1963, advising that the in- telligence research of the Foreign Ministry be strengthened ...

times. Toledano and his men offered to help them to go to Israel. In a typical operation, within just three hours several famili ...

The Mossad agents instructed them how to reach the rendezvous points from where they were taken by trucks to Moroccan ports wher ...

War of Independence, Yariv served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as deputy battalion commander in the Alexandroni Brigade an ...

surviving an airplane crash in the Libyan Desert in April 1992. The chair was equipped with a sophisticated monitoring device. I ...

YATOM, EHUD (1948– ).A former Israeli Security Agency(ISA) of- ficer with rank equivalent to major general in the Israel Defense ...

Lieutenant General Mordechai Gur, was also reluctant to recom- mend a military rescue operation unless relevant and updated inte ...

tion Department of MI, was dispatched to Paris with Lieutenant Colonel Amnon Biran to collect all possible information from the ...

hostages in the terminal were released alive, except for one who was killed when he leaped at the Israeli forces. Another hostag ...

tier with Egypt along the east bank of the Suez Canal, from which Egyptian forces on the other side could be observed. By 1969 t ...

Egyptian naval units and paratroopers would then try to take Sharm al-Sheikh at the southern end of the Sinai Peninsula. MI was ...

launch a war. The MI analysts realized that Sadat had the necessary divisions prepared to cross the Suez Canal, the necessary br ...

intelligence (HUMINT) had a key part in contributing information to MI, in addition to signals intelligence (SIGINT) and imagery ...

only 10 people knew of the impending assault on Israel; they in- cluded President Assad, his minister of war and commander-in-ch ...

At about 2:00 A.M. on 5 October, Zamir got a phone call from the Mossad’s case officer in London, who was in contact with Marwan ...