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The book starts with Ostrovsky's service in the Israeli Defense Forces. After taking psychological and other preliminary tests, he rejects a potential job as a Mossad assassin but accepts a trainee katsa position. He specifically addresses the suicide bombing of the US Marine compound in Beirut that killed several hundred US Marines in Lebanon ...
Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert, former Israeli prime ministers, and Meir Dagan, a recent head of Mossad for eight years, were among those interviewed. [2] The book begins with the founding of Bar Giora in 1907 by Yitzhak Ben Zvi. The organization later became Hashomer, then the Haganah and finally the core of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). [3]
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).
Former katsa Victor Ostrovsky has said that the direction Meir set Mossad on, namely that of focusing heavily on the people and operations of the PLO, took energy away from intelligence gathering on Israel's neighbors. [71] This led Mossad to miss the warning signs of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which caught Israeli defenses by surprise.
Vengeance is a 1984 book by George Jonas describing part of Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre.It was re-released as Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team or Vengeance: Sword of Gideon in some later editions and countries.
During his term as Director-General of the Mossad, Dagan kept one of the photographs hanging in his office. [4] Meir and his parents survived the Holocaust, and in 1950, the family made aliyah to Israel. During the cattle ship's approach to Israel, it encountered a storm, during which Meir stood on the stern, praying to reach the shore safely.
Victor John Ostrovsky (born 28 November 1949) is an author and intelligence officer who was a case officer in the Israeli Mossad for 14 months before his dismissal. After leaving the Mossad, Ostrovsky authored two books about his service with the Mossad: By Way of Deception, [1] a #1 New York Times bestseller in 1990, and The Other Side of Deception several years later.
Pages in category "Books about the Mossad" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. By Way of ...