Summary of Michael Bar-Zohar & Nissim Mishal's Mossad

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#1 In 1971, the Israeli Defense Forces launched Operation Chameleon, in which they killed the leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a terrorist group. The operation was planned by Meir Dagan, a young commander who had posed as Lebanese terrorists and met with the terrorist leaders.

#2 Dagan was a stocky young man who had applied to join the most prestigious Israeli commando unit, Sayeret Matkal. He was sent to the Gaza strip in 1971, where he created the first undercover Israeli commando unit. They operated in Arab disguise to move freely in Arab crowds and reach their targets undetected.

#3 Dagan was a man haunted by the suffering of his family and the Jews during the Holocaust. He dedicated his life to the defense of the newborn State of Israel.

#4 Dagan was a retired general when he was asked to be the Mossad chief by Prime Minister Arik Sharon. The Mossad was losing steam, and several failures in the preceding years had dealt severe blows to its prestige.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822535107

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 23

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

In 1971, the Israeli Defense Forces launched Operation Chameleon, in which they killed the leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a terrorist group. The operation was planned by Meir Dagan, a young commander who had posed as Lebanese terrorists and met with the terrorist leaders.

#2

Dagan was a stocky young man who had applied to join the most prestigious Israeli commando unit, Sayeret Matkal. He was sent to the Gaza strip in 1971, where he created the first undercover Israeli commando unit. They operated in Arab disguise to move freely in Arab crowds and reach their targets undetected.

#3

Dagan was a man haunted by the suffering of his family and the Jews during the Holocaust. He dedicated his life to the defense of the newborn State of Israel.

#4

Dagan was a retired general when he was asked to be the Mossad chief by Prime Minister Arik Sharon. The Mossad was losing steam, and several failures in the preceding years had dealt severe blows to its prestige.

#5

Dagan was not welcomed at the Mossad. He was an outsider who focused mostly on operations, and he didn’t care much about learned intelligence analyses or secret diplomatic exchanges. But under his control, the Mossad accomplished the heretofore unimaginable: the assassination of Hezbollah’s mad killer Imad Mughniyeh in Damascus, the destruction of the Syrian nuclear reactor, and a relentless, ruthless campaign against Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

On July 23, 2011, two gunmen on motorcycles shot a man named Darioush Rezaei Najad, a physics professor and major figure in Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program, in South Tehran. Rezaei Najad was not the first Iranian scientist to have been killed in the conflict.

#2

The Mossad also targeted Iranian scientists and officials who were involved in the country’s nuclear program. In January 2007, Dr. Ardashir Hosseinpour was allegedly killed by Mossad agents with radioactive poison.

#3

For years, Iran had been building its nuclear might, and Israel had no idea. The shah’s nuclear project did not cause any alarm in Israel, because Israel was Iran’s close ally, until the Iranian revolution in 1979.

#4

In the fall of 1987, a secret meeting was held in Dubai between eight men: three Iranians, two Pakistanis, and three European experts working for Iran. The representatives of Iran and Pakistan signed a confidential agreement. A large sum of money was transferred to the Pakistanis, or Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the head of Pakistan’s official nuclear weapons program.

#5

In 1988, the American authorities saw the full extent of the Iranians’ work for the first time. A Pakistani defector appeared before FBI investigators in New York, asking for political