Historical Dictionary of Israeli Intelligence

Chronology xix 1915 November:Netzah Yisrael Lo Yeshaker(NILI), a clandestine pro-British spying organization, is founded in Otto ...

1941 The Palmah underground militia creates the Syrian Platoon, commanded by Yisrael Ben-Yehuda and Yehoshua (Josh) Palmon, who ...

a field court-martial conducted by Shai members and presided over by Isser Be’eri. The charge is treason, based on circumstantia ...

the intelligence services. 3 August: Buqa’i is tried and hanged in Am- man. October: Isser Be’eri is tried for his part in the e ...

the Department of Intelligence to Directorate of Intelligence in the Gen- eral Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), raising ...

intelligence by means of an explosive envelope. The same day, the Egypt- ian military attaché in Amman, Jordan, Major Salah Must ...

to the public. As a result, Yehoshafat Harkabi, director of Military Intelli- gence (DMI), and his head of Operations Branch, Ma ...

with whom he tours the length and breadth of Syria. By means of these con- tacts, Cohen collects much information, according to ...

position until October 1972. January: Yosef Harmelin is appointed direc- tor of the ISA, which he will hold until 1975; he will ...

Sinai Peninsula. Nasser places the Egyptian army on full alert. The Is- raeli intelligence community, having calculated that the ...

eliminated, but he does not share this information with Hussein. Still, it is clear from the conversation that Hussein knows tha ...

1972 September:After the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Mu- nich Olympic Games by Palestinian terrorists of the Black ...

aircraft and suffer one loss. This naturally reinforces the military’s belief that the Arabs will not attack on account of Israe ...

and the Third Army, to the south, which crossed between the Suez and Great Bitter Lake. This seam is the most vulnerable point o ...

lecting intelligence and careful planning. 3–4 July: In Operation Yehonathan, four Israel Air Force (IAF) transport aircraft fly ...

1983 The Moshe Dayan Center for the Middle East is established at Tel Aviv University; it concentrates its research on the Arab ...

Mordechai Vanunu, a former technician at the Dimona Nuclear Re- search Center, reveals sensitive information about the reactor t ...

xxxvi •CHRONOLOGY Jews from Ethiopia to Israel. The Israeli government has reached an agreement with Ethiopia’s ruler, Colonel H ...

until September 2002. 9 July: Major General Amos Malka takes office as director of Military Intelligence (DMI). 15 July: Nahum M ...

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