The Mossad is the national intelligence agency of Israel, responsible for intelligence collection, covert operations abroad and counter-terrorism work.
Some of the most famous operations attributed to the Mossad include the abduction of Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann from Argentina to Israel in 1960 and the successful heist of the Iranian secret nuclear archive in 2018.
In addition, the agency also works to bring Jews from countries in which aliyah is forbidden, to Israel.
The Mossad was found in December 1941 under the recommendation of then prime minister David Ben-Gurion to coordinate with other existing security services, Aman and the Shin Bet.
Its current director is David Barnea, who took over from Yossi Cohen in 2021, and who answers solely to the prime minister rather than to another member of the cabinet.
Who was Eli Cohen? What did he do during his espionage work in Syria? How did he get caught? And what was the legacy of his actions?
Syria refused to return Cohen's body to his family in Israel, and his body was allegedly buried multiple times to prevent Israel from finding and returning his remains.
The meeting is the second between the Mossad chief and al-Thani, following their meeting in Vienna in late November.
The exchanges, which, according to the report, were intended for Syria’s national security chief, were marked as a message from “an Israeli agent named Musa.”
The exhibit is expected to illustrate various stages in Cohen's life on three different chronological paths.
Cohen thought of the Yom Kippur War's freed prisoners of war when preparing to receive hostages from Hamas captivity.
Eichmann was a key figure in managing and enabling the logistics and transportation of deporting Jews to the extermination camps.
From October 8, 2023, when Hezbollah attacked Israel’s border villages with rockets and anti-tank missiles, until August 25 of this year, the war was mostly a tie.
Kogan is an Israeli who served in the IDF, managed a supermarket in Dubai, and is married to an American woman.
A controversial Knesset bill aims to create a PMO intelligence czar separate from IDF, Mossad, and Shin Bet.
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