in the bureau of Admiral Binyamin Telem, who instructed the Israeli
Navy to prepare for war. The next day, Lunz tried to convince the di-
rector of Military Intelligence(DMI), Eliyahu (Eli) Zeira, that war
was imminent. Zeira maintained that the information of MI was bet-
ter than that of Naval Intelligence, hence also MI’s assessment.
Subsequently Naval Intelligence scored more successes, especially
in detecting and capturing two vessels attempting to smuggle muni-
tions to the Palestinians: the Santoriniin May 2001 and the Karine-A
in January 2002.
Naval Intelligence is the smallest of the Israeli Navy’s units. Its
personnel, numbering just a few hundred people, collect intelligence
from bases and vessels and analyze it in two departments: one for
early warning, and the other for operations. In contrast to MI, the Is-
raeli Security Agency(ISA), the Mossad, and the Air Intelligence
Squadron, Naval Intelligence has remained underground—even its
headquarters are subterranean. The officers and researchers of Naval
Intelligence are professionals and none of them is ever appointed
head of Naval Intelligence, a post always held by one of the Navy’s
senior operational commanders. One of the previous chiefs of Naval
Intelligence, Admiral (equivalent) Yedidya Ya’ari, made his way up
the command hierarchy and became commander-in-chief of the navy.NAWI, ELIYAHU (1920– ).Born in Basra, Iraq, Nawi was in charge
of “black” propaganda to Arab countries on Israel Radio, in conjunc-
tion with Unit 132of Military Intelligence. He is a lawyer and a
judge, a Bible scholar, and a politician, who at one time was mayor
of the city of Beer Sheba.NAYIFA, AQUALA.An Arab woman from Haifa who abhorred Jews
and idolized Egyptian ruler Gamal Abdel Nasser in the early 1950s,
Nayifa accomplished several unimportant missions for Jordanian in-
telligence, such as buying Israeli postcards in the hope that they
might show Israeli Army bases. She was arrested in June 1957 when
crossing the border at Beit Safafa to the Jordanian side.NE’EMAN, YUVAL (1925– ).Born in Tel Aviv, Ne’eman joined the
Haganah underground militia at age 15. During Israel’s 1948–1949
War of Independence, he served as a deputy battalion commanderNE’EMAN, YUVAL• 20306-102 (03) H-P.qxd 3/24/06 7:25 AM Page 203