Historical Dictionary of Israeli Intelligence

After Hamshari was killed, his wife tried to reconstruct his actions of the preceding few days. She recalled that she and her hu ...

Jews who either collaborated with the British or belonged to rival un- derground militias. At the order of Israel’s future prime ...

In 1962 Harel learned that German scientists were assisting the Egyp- tians in developing missile technology. According to Reuve ...

After resigning from the IDF, Harkabi joined the faculty of He- brew University in Jerusalem as professor of international relat ...

head of the department, Moshe Sharett, in 1945. Posing as a jour- nalist, Harmer made many important contacts with the high Egyp ...

Hazak knew that Shalom had given the order to kill the two surviv- ing Palestinian hijackers of Bus 300 after they had surrender ...

tion defining Zionism as racism in 1975 and defended the 1976 Yehonathan Operation, the rescue of Israeli hostages in Uganda. He ...

in obtaining a Soviet-built MiG fighter, but Abbas Hilmi was still given a very warm reception. He provided Israeli intelligence ...

airplane with their hands up. Israeli intelligence found that not one of the wanted men was among the passengers, although some ...

operatives were in the lounge of Frankfurt airport, he saw his name and his picture in a German newspaper. He asked his men to b ...

drafted into the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in 1962 and served in the Golani infantry brigade, where he rose to the rank of lie ...

strong desire to expose corruption and failures, as well as a penchant for vengefulness. Two affairs of leaking top secret secur ...

military efforts secured their release in return for the release of 41 Syr- ian prisoners of war. But one—Uri Ilan, a soldier of ...

In Tel Aviv, Ephraim Dekelset up an information-gathering appa- ratus based on the city’s police force. As in Tel Aviv, an info ...

The British Department, headed by Moshe Bar-Ilan, was later re- named the Political Department. Its task was to derive informat ...

In the end, the Shai lacked the central direction and systematic thinking essential for an intelligence organization, as all of ...

tiveness in many spheres, the Shai’s apparatus and personnel pro- vided the infrastructure on which the new state’s Military Int ...

INTERNAL ISA COMMITTEE ON THE RABIN ASSASSINA- TION. Immediately after the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on 4 No ...

IRANGATE AFFAIR.Israel, along with the United States, suffered a grave loss with the fall of the Shah of Iran at the end of 1979 ...

feared that a request for U.S. approval in advance would be turned down out of hand. In November 1979 in the early days of the I ...