For what may be the first time ever, a cyber attack has been met with direct and lethal force. On 5 May, the Israeli defence force announced on Twitter that following an ongoing cyber attack, its planes had bombed a Hamas cyber operations centre. The Tweet said laconically: “HamasCyberHQ.exe has …
Israel has done a deal with Russia to repatriate the remains of famous spy Eli Cohen. Cohen worked in Syria in the 1960s where he was chief advisor to the Syrian Minister for Defence. The intelligence he provided is believed to have given Israel a vital advantage in the Six …
One of the key figures in the history of Israeli espionage has passed away. Rafi Eitan is most famous for commanding the eight man team that rendered Adolf Eichmann from Argentina back to Israel in 1960. The discovery and detention of this most evil exponent of the Final Solution captured …
26 February: Gonen Segev, 63, the former Israeli Minister for Energy and Infrastructure, has been sentenced to eleven years in prison for spying for Iran. The sentence followed a plea bargain in January by which Segev pleaded guilty to charges of serious espionage and passing information to an enemy. In …
On 10 February a story appeared in the Sunday Express stating that SIS, Mossad and the CIA had collaborated in an operation to smuggle a nuclear scientist out of Iran and, eventually, into the US. You can read the story here: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1085207/spies-MI6-smuggle-iranian-defector-dinghy-uk-channel The story is strange in that much of …