(From Top World Intelligence Agencies)
Mossad (the Hebrew word for “institute”) is one of the world’s most effective and notorious intelligence services. Its policy of targeted assassination is unparalleled among the world’s intelligence agencies.
Mossad in the news:
- Mossad Hacked: Israeli Spy Chief’s Personal information Revealed Online (01/18/2019)
- Mossad Chief Reportedly Met With Saudi, UAE, and Egypt Intelligence Officials (01/08/2019)
- Slideshow: The Legacy of Mossad’s Targeted Assassinations (11/29/2018)
Israeli officials have acknowledged organizing the assassination of five Iranian nuclear scientists, as part of an effort to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. UAE authorities say a team of 26 Mossad agents was responsible for killing a senior Hamas military commander in a Dubai hotel room in 2010.
Mossad has diverse cyber capabilities. Israeli intelligence reportedly infiltrated the Stuxnet virus into the computers of Iranian nuclear facilities causing high-speed centrifuges to malfunction. The virus, discovered in 2010, was produced by a joint U.S.-Israeli team, according to the Washington Post.
Israel’s domestic security service, equivalent to the American FBI, is known as Shin Bet. According to Human Rights Watch, Israeli authorities enforce “severe and discriminatory restrictions on Palestinians’ human rights” and facilitate “the unlawful transfer of Israeli citizens to settlements in the occupied West Bank.”
The combined budget of Mossad and Shin Bet in 2017 was $2.4 billion, according to Ha’aretz. Mossad director, Yossi Cohen, was appointed in 2016.
- Mossad website
- Video: Yossi Cohen appointment (I24 Israeli TV)
- Human Rights Watch on Israel and Palestine in 2017
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