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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.
In 1961, he began his work in the Mossad. In 1967, he was selected to the Chief Branches Forum. Halevy remained in the Mossad for the next 28 years, heading three different branches throughout. Halevy had a working relationship with Hussein of Jordan which developed into a close personal friendship. Hussein trusted Halevy both with sensitive ...
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).
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
Gumaa Al-Shawan (né Ahmed Al-Hawan; 1 July 1937 – 1 November 2011) was an Egyptian spy who worked for the Israeli Mossad from 1967 until 1973. He provided the Israelis with false military information with the help of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate.
During his tenure, the Mossad conducted Operation Diamond to smuggle a Soviet-built MiG-21 into Israel. Slightly more than a year into his job, Hod faced an enormous predicament. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser had closed the Straits of Tiran , and Israel was facing the possibility of a three front war against Egypt, Jordan , and Syria .
The history of Israel's intelligence services dates back to 1929, during the British Mandate in Palestine.The increase in Arab violence since 1920, and especially the mass pogroms of 1929, in which 133 Jews were killed and 339 wounded in one week, prompted the establishment of an information and intelligence service within the Jewish self-defense organization "Haganah".
On 19 June 1967, shortly after the Six-Day War, the Israeli government voted to return the Sinai to Egypt and the Golan Heights to Syria in exchange for a permanent peace settlement and a demilitarization of the returned territories. [56] [57] [58] This decision was not made public at the time, nor was it conveyed to any Arab state.