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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).
The Israeli Intelligence Community (Hebrew: קהילת המודיעין הישראלית) is made up of Aman (military intelligence), Mossad (overseas intelligence) and Shin Bet (internal security). [ 1 ]
The history of Israel's intelligence services dates back to 1929, during the British Mandate in Palestine.The increase in Arab violence since 1920, and especially the mass pogroms of 1929, in which 133 Jews were killed and 339 wounded in one week, prompted the establishment of an information and intelligence service within the Jewish self-defense organization "Haganah".
Israel's Mossad spy agency planted explosives inside 5,000 pagers imported by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before Tuesday's detonations that killed nine people, a senior Lebanese security ...
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 ...
Israel's Mossad spy agency planted a small amount of explosives inside 5000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before Tuesday's detonations, a senior Lebanese security ...
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.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The following is a list of alleged and confirmed assassinations reported to have been conducted by the State of Israel. It includes attempts on persons who were reported to have been specifically targeted by the various Israeli security, intelligence and law enforcement agencies. 1950s Date Place ...