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Cohen was born in Alexandria, Egypt, to a family of Mizrahi Jews.His father had immigrated from Aleppo in the Ottoman Empire in 1914. Deeply committed to Judaism, Cohen had planned in his youth to become a rabbi with guidance from Moise Ventura [] (1893–1978), Alexandria's Chief Rabbi, [4] but the city's yeshiva soon closed down, [5] prompting him to pursue higher education at Cairo University.
Mossad was formed on December 13, 1949, as the Central Institute for Coordination at the recommendation of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to Reuven Shiloah.Ben Gurion wanted a central body to coordinate and improve cooperation between the existing security services—the army's intelligence department (), the Internal Security Service (), and the Political Intelligence Service (Mossad).
A deep-cover Mossad agent, he infiltrated neo-Nazi groups as well as governments that were hostile to Israel. [2] Cohen wrote a book about the undercover unit he helped to create inside the Palmach, which was posthumously published by the Israeli Ministry of Defense and Galili Center for Defense Studies. [ 3 ]
He ran agents in a number of countries over his career, and rose to lead the Mossad's collections division ("Tsomet"). [7] From 2011 to 2013, he was the deputy director of the Mossad, [8] serving under Tamir Pardo. He was known publicly as "Y" (Hebrew: "י") in this post. [9] Cohen won the prestigious Israel Security Prize for his Mossad work. [10]
Fictional Mossad agents (8 P) Pages in category "People of the Mossad" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
Numerous Mossad agents were sent to Iraq to assist the transfer of Redfa's wife Betty, their two children aged three and five, his parents and a number of other family members out of the country. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Betty and their two children went to Paris for what she thought was a summer vacation.
Erika Chambers (born 1948), also known as Agent Penelope, is a British-Israeli Mossad operative behind the action on 22 January 1979 that killed Ali Hassan Salameh, leader of Black September and lead plotter behind the Munich massacre.
Attributed to Mossad by several sources, [35] and widely believed to be a Mossad operation by intelligence experts, [36] Gordon Thomas states it was the work of Mossad's director Nahum Admoni. [37] Israel denied involvement at the time. [36] and several other countries had interests in seeing him dead. February 16, 1992 Nabatieh Governorate Lebanon