Historical Dictionary of Israeli Intelligence

Eitan resigned from the Mossad in the early 1970s in disappointment at not being promoted to its directorship. In 1976, when Ari ...

where he even underwent a very painful operation to reverse his cir- cumcision. In December 1953 Elad, under the assumed name Pa ...

maintained his connection with Nuri, now Egyptian military attaché in West Germany, and even sold him classified IDF documents. ...

in the town wearing French uniforms. The Jews of Port Said soon re- alized that the two were Israeli secret agents. In the summe ...

by way of Cyprus in mid-May 1951, and later directly to Israel in a gi- ant airlift operated directly from Baghdad to Lod airpor ...

the trial began in camera in a Swiss federal court in Lausanne. Ben Tal was convicted and sentenced to a one-year suspended pris ...

pendence, he enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces, and after demobi- lization, with the rank of major, he established a small s ...

Shiloahdecided that there was no longer any need for the Mossad Le’Aliyah Beth. FRAUENKNECHT, ALFRED.In the late 1960s, Frauenkn ...

– G – GAON, HAIM.Major Gaon, an officer in Military Intelligence(MI), was instructed in 1949 by the director of MI, Colonel Biny ...

suffering the trauma of its failure to provide early warning on the eve of the Yom Kippur War. In 1981, after leaving MI, Gazit ...

GIBLI, BINYAMIN (1919– ).Born in Petah Tikva, Israel, Gibli was a member of the Haganah underground militia prior to the establi ...

an Art.” In 1975 Gil cultivated a high-ranking official in the Syrian government as a mole, who indeed provided vital informatio ...

GILLON, CARMI (1950– ).Gillon was born in Jerusalem into a fam- ily most of whom were jurists. His grandfather was the only Jewi ...

terrorists. The events of 11 September 2001 in the United States did much to assuage Danish feelings against Gillon. On conclusi ...

waiter, Ahmed Bouchiki, as Salameh in Lillehammer, Norway, and shot him to death on 21 July 1973 in what became known as the Lil ...

He asked Heide to travel with him to Egypt and tell her father that his life would be in danger if he did not stop his work in E ...

Raphael Grabli retired from the IDF after the collapse of the Druse espionage network. After the conquest of the Golan Heights i ...

for Tel Aviv via Rome. Harel himself, for the first time as director of the ISA, flew to Italy to ensure that Gross would be bro ...

– H – HAFEZ, MUSTAFA ASSASSINATION. In the 1950s Colonel Mustafa Hafez was the commander of Egyptian intelligence in Gaza. That ...

Halevy’s first task as director was to ease the high tensions and resentments within the organization that had seriously damaged ...