Israel

Mossad was established in 1949 as the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations and reports directly to the Prime Minister...

The Shin Bet, also called Shabak, was chartered secretly in the early 1950s to protect the state from espionage and terrorism. It ...

Aman is the directorate of military intelligence of the Israel Defense Forces and for decades delivered the national intelligence ...

Operation Wrath of God pursued those Israel held responsible for the murder of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, condu...

Operation Entebbe freed more than a hundred hostages held by hijackers at Entebbe airport in July 1976 after an Air France flight ...

Operation Diamond persuaded Iraqi pilot Munir Redfa to defect with his MiG-21 in August 1966, landing at Hatzor airbase after a ci...

Operation Finale seized Adolf Eichmann, the logistical organizer of the Holocaust, from a Buenos Aires suburb in May 1960. Agents ...

Eli Cohen, an Egyptian-born Israeli, operated in Damascus from 1961 to 1965 under the identity of a Syrian businessman, rising so ...

In 1954 Israeli military intelligence activated a cell of Egyptian Jews to plant incendiary devices in cinemas, a post office and ...