Historical Dictionary of Israeli Intelligence

the commander of Unit 131suborned their subordinate to commit perjury before the Ulshan-Dori Commission.” See also AMIAD COMMISS ...

Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Yuval Steinitz. The other members of the committee were Knesset members Haim Ra- ...

COMMITTEE OF SEVEN.In 1960 the Israeli government decided once again to set up a committee—this time of seven ministers, headed ...

leaders of Palestinian terrorism who were not necessarily linked to the slaughter. These plans were put into action in the Wrath ...

ident Anwar Sadat had changed his mind in the fall of 1972. By late 1972, however, Sadat had decided that, instead of waiting fo ...

CONTROL UNIT.See DEVIL’S ADVOCATE. CROSS, TED.See GROSS AFFAIR. – D – DAGAN, MEIR (1945– ).Born Meir Huberman in the Soviet Unio ...

21st century. He wishes to make the espionage agency more opera- tional. Soon after assuming his post, he called a meeting of de ...

an electronics specialist who had been engaged on Nazi Germany’s V-2 project in World War II, survived an assassination attempt ...

Le’Aliyah Bethin Europe. After World War II, he operated in Arab countries, and in the fighting in Palestine for the creation of ...

Egypt for Europe, and thereafter they traveled to Israel. On 30 March 2005 Dassa was accorded recognition by Israeli president M ...

DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.See MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. DEVIL’S ADVOCATE/IPKHA MISTABRA.Following the recom- mendation of ...

the full title of this unit is not known exactly on account of its ultrase- crecy. The closest possible Hebrew phrase for this a ...

fice, Carmon resigned his position because of health problems. Horev then transformed MALMAB into a large organization with very ...

and rose through the ranks without taking any shortcuts. From 1979 to 1984, he was coordinator for the Nablus District. During P ...

Doroth’s transfer to the Mossad probably in order to maintain some kind of watch on the Mossad. Doroth’s Mossad code name was Da ...

– E – EBAN, ABBA (1915–2002).Born in Cape Town, South Africa, and brought up in England, Eban studied oriental languages at Camb ...

rope and bemoaned the fact that the Nazis were unable to “finish the job.” Nicholas also used the family name Eichmann openly at ...

up by the Mossad in an unidentified European city so as to avoid any connection with Israel. Harel was well aware that Israel wo ...

the Suez Canal. There the ship was ambushed by an Egyptian missile boat and sunk. Of the destroyer’s complement of 200, 47 were ...

indicated clearly that the Egyptians intended to carry out a maritime operation against Israel. One report disclosed that a stat ...