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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).
The main intelligence-collection and -analysis body of the IDF General Staff; also includes the Israeli signals-intelligence agency known as Unit 8200: Information Security Department: The main information-security and counterintelligence unit of Aman Research Department: The main all-source intelligence-assessment unit of Aman
The Intelligence Department was composed largely of former members of the Haganah Intelligence Service. Aman is an independent service, and not part of the ground forces, Navy or the Air Force. It is one of the main entities and the largest component of the Israeli Intelligence Community, along with Mossad and Shin Bet.
Havatzalot Program Official Logo. The Havatzalot Program (Hebrew: תכנית חבצלות) is an elite program in the Israel Defense Forces, aimed at training highly skilled intelligence officers for key roles in Israel's Military Intelligence Directorate, also known as Aman.
Like the Mossad, Unit 504 is performing clandestine and covert operations, gathering military intelligence, and special operations outside the borders of the State of Israel and like the Shin Bet it also operates in the Palestinian territories, having responsibilities overlapping with Israel's two other main intelligence agencies.
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".
The Ministry of Intelligence (Hebrew: משרד המודיעין, Misrad HaModi'in) was a government ministry in Israel.It oversaw policies related to the operation of the intelligence organizations, the Mossad and the Shabak (Israel Security Agency), in support of the national security of the State of Israel, in coordination with and under the guidance of the prime minister.
Unit 81 (Hebrew: יחידה 81) is a secret technology unit part of the Special Operations Division of the Military Intelligence Directorate, an independent service of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The unit focuses on building and supplying cutting-edge technologies to Israeli combat soldiers and spies. [1]