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Kidon (Hebrew: כידון) is a 2013 French-Israeli spy action comedy film about the Israeli Mossad's attempts to find out who killed Hamas senior military commander Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in 2010.
Authorised by Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in the autumn of 1972, the operation is believed to have continued for over twenty years. [2] While Mossad killed several prominent Palestinians during the operation, they never managed to kill the mastermind behind Munich, namely Abu Daoud.
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).
Israeli sources say he was planning to bomb Israeli targets. Israel Defense Forces [56] July 25, 2001 Nablus West Bank: Salah Nour al-Din Khalil Darwouza (38) Hamas: Car hit while driving in Nablus. He evaded two missiles from an Apache helicopter, but the car was hit by a further 4. Israel claimed he planned bombing attacks on French Hill, and ...
The Mossad agents already in Lebanon were there for deep-cover surveillance and did not have sufficient training, while combatants from the Mossad's kidon unit who could carry out such assassinations lacked convincing cover stories to infiltrate Lebanon and remain there long enough to carry out the mission.
In 1968, Tzahor was recruited into Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence services, and was one of the founders of Mossad's Kidon ("spear") unit, which conducts assassinations overseas. He took part in dozens of Mossad operations. In the late 1970s, was appointed deputy director of the Kidon unit, and became its commander in 1984.
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 ...
Kidon – a department within Mossad that is allegedly responsible for selective high-profile assassination. Aman – Israel's military intelligence agency. Shin Bet – Israel's internal security agency. Oz Brigade – the Ground Forces formation grouping some of the Israeli special forces units.