Historical Dictionary of Israeli Intelligence

Agency(ISA) in 1950 while he was still serving in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). After the Sinai Campaignin November 1956, he ...

AL-CHIR, HUSSEIN ABAD.A member of Black September Organi- zation, Al-Chir served as liaison between the Palestine Liberation Or- ...

work to the Egyptians. It was directed to probe into whether there was sufficient evidence to indict Elad for this deed. As a re ...

retired after Amit’s appointment that he flew to Europe to invite the head of Mossad’s political and liaison department in Europ ...

declared mentally unfit to stand trial. He was hospitalized at the Mizra psychiatric hospital near Acre and discharged from the ...

friend who worked in the ISA research department in his capacity as ISA coordinator in Galilee. He had persuaded his friend to g ...

Italy. He returned to the United States after several years and studied at Yale University. During his student years, he founded ...

1975 to 1997 he served in senior positions with the Mossadin Israel and abroad. He rose through the organization’s ranks and bec ...

In 1969 Marwan Ashraf walked into the Israeli Embassy in London and volunteered to furnish information. The offer was turned dow ...

Egyptian media and confirmed that Ashraf had indeed been an Is- raeli agent, but he maintained that he was a double agent who de ...

have been able, if he so wished, to order the Egyptian forces to in- vade Israel and cut off the Negev without the Israel Defens ...

ability of the Maronite Christians in Lebanon to create a new order there. MI was the only Israeli intelligence organization to ...

rael and the Palestinians, and the peace process that followed this declaration. MI believed that Syria’s military movements in ...

questioner was a young man who spoke Hebrew with a Moroccan- French accent and identified himself as Haim Avergil. Avergil was c ...

AVNI, BENNY (?–2005).In the early 1950s Lieutenant Benny Avni served in Unit 154, the collection unit of Military Intelligence(M ...

able to join the small economics department of the Israeli Foreign Min- istry, then urgently in need of more qualified employees ...

Ze’ev Avni’s deeds were considered so damaging that no public statement was made about arrest, his trial, or his sentence. He wa ...

and brilliant career. Proving his capabilities in numerous naval opera- tions, Ayalon quickly climbed the ladder and became the ...

only that through the cell phone the ISA would be able to monitor Ayash’s conversations. In fact, the ISA planted 1.7 ounces of ...

For the Alexandria cell, he recruited Shmuel Becor Azzar, Robert Nis- sim Dassa, Victor Moise Levy, Meir Shmuel Meyuhas, Philip ...