(October 17, 2021 / JNS) With the recent disclosure that the Mossad carried out a courageous mission to discover what happened to Israeli Air Force Lt. Col. Ron Arad, whose plane went down over Lebanon in Oct. 1986, it is appropriate to highlight how...
BY REPPS HUDSON, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published January 21, 2021
Shabtai Shavit was the top man at Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, from 1989 to 1996, so he knows lots of state secrets. He shares many of them, to the extent he can, with readers in a memoir that is at times absolutely fascinating and at other times absolutely...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published May 30, 2019
Mossad, Israel’s legendary and widely admired intelligence agency, has had a long history of astonishing successes in international intrigue, including planting spies in enemy nations; using a former Nazi officer as a double agent and consciously burnishing...
By Repps Hudson, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 25, 2019
Sometimes we read books that fill in details about a particular moment in the history we care deeply about, and we learn so much.Matti Friedman has written such a book about the Jewish spies who spoke Arabic as their native language because they had grown...
JERUSALEM -- Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan said Israel should hold off on attacking Iran and that he would "prefer" that the United States execute the attack when it is time. Dagan also said in an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes Sunday night that he feared...
The wife of an assassinated Iranian nuclear scientist said that her husband’s “ultimate goal was the annihilation of Israel.” Fatemeh Bolouri Kashani, the wife of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, told the Fars News Agency in an interview published Tuesday...
JERUSALEM -- Mossad chief Tamir Pardo led a team of Israeli security forces on a visit to India last week, but did not appear to anticipate an attack in the capital, an Indian newspaper reported. The high-level security team did discuss the threat of...
JERUSALEM -- Israel's Mossad prevented an assassination attempt on Defense Minister Ehud Barak, a Kuwaiti newspaper is reporting. The Mossad, in cooperation with local authorities in Singapore, prevented an attempt on Barak's life during a visit this...
Agents of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency reportedly are still using foreign passports to conduct undercover operations in other countries. According to a report Sunday in The Times of London, new evidence shows that foreign nationals residing in...
WASHINGTON—The owner of the Atlanta Jewish Times apologized for an opinion column in which he counted President Obama's assassination as among Israel's options in heading off a nuclear Iran. "I very much regret it, I wish I hadn't made reference to...
JERUSALEM -- Israel's Mossad assassinated an Iranian scientist in a bomb attack, Time Magazine reported, citing unnamed Western intelligence sources. The report Saturday came as Iranian state television reported that the Islamic Republic had evidence...
