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The Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations (Hebrew: המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים, romanized: ha-Mosád le-Modiʿín u-le-Tafkidím Meyuḥadím), popularly known as Mossad [a] (UK: / ˈ m ɒ s æ d / MOSS-ad, US: / m oʊ ˈ s ɑː d / moh-SAHD), is the national intelligence agency of the State of Israel.
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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.
Commando Unit 101, the founding Israeli special forces unit, was established and commanded by Ariel Sharon on orders from Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in August 1953. [2] They were armed with non-standard weapons and tasked with carrying out retribution operations across the state's borders – in particular, establishing small unit ...
Since then, the Mossad and other Israeli intelligence agencies have regularly conducted operations to eliminate leaders of terrorist organizations, including abroad. [ 90 ] [ 91 ] One of the most famous such operations was the assassination of Fatah military leader Abu Jihad [ ru ] in Tunisia on April 16, 1988, in a joint operation by the ...
Israel destroyed Syrian military aircraft, warships, and weapons facilities to stop rebel groups from using them after the fall of the Assad regime. Photos show how Israeli airstrikes wiped out ...
Israel’s Mossad spy service announced on Thursday that its agents inside Iran seized the head of an alleged Iranian hit squad that planned to kill Israeli businesspeople in Cyprus. The Mossad ...
The US also sanctioned an Israeli individual, Yitzhak Levi Filant, who allegedly “led a group of armed settlers to set up roadblocks and conduct patrols to pursue and attack Palestinians in ...