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Mossad discovered that Hezbollah had recruited a German national named Steven Smyrek, and that he was travelling to Israel. In an operation conducted by Mossad, the CIA, the German Internal Security agency Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV), and the Israeli Internal Security agency Shin Bet, Smyrek was kept under constant surveillance, and ...
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 ...
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.
In 2015, Mossad began planting booby-trapped walkie-talkies in Lebanon, which secretly allowed Israel to monitor Hezbollah communications while holding the option to detonate them. [59] For nine years, Israel limited its use of these devices to surveillance.
The issue regarding the suitable structure of the IIC, and questions as to dividing responsibilities and jurisdictions between Aman, Shabak, and Mossad, as well as the format of work for the three in relation to prime ministers and ministers, all of these became agenda issues many times in the past. Various commissions and individual inspectors ...
He ran agents in a number of countries over his career, and rose to lead the Mossad's collections division ("Tsomet"). [7] From 2011 to 2013, he was the deputy director of the Mossad, [8] serving under Tamir Pardo. He was known publicly as "Y" (Hebrew: "י") in this post. [9] Cohen won the prestigious Israel Security Prize for his Mossad work. [10]
Michael Harari (Hebrew: מייק הררי; February 18, 1927 – September 21, 2014) [1] was an Israeli intelligence officer in the Mossad.He was notably involved in the Lillehammer affair, an attempted revenge killing following the Munich massacre that instead resulted in the murder of an innocent individual in a case of mistaken identity.
[160] Israeli media and public opinion has generally accepted Mossad's responsibility for the operation. [161] Due to Israel's military censorship laws the Israeli media at first were careful to use the phrase "according to foreign media reports" to avoid directly accusing Mossad, however the phrase was abandoned and Mossad's culpability was ...