Yossi Cohen is the chief of Mossad and possible successor toindicted Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Cohen is the man who first talked publicly about assassinating Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.
As Israel copes with the COVID19 crisis, Netanyahu has tapped Cohen to obtain medical supplies from Mossad’s intelligence networks. Mossad reportedly delivered 10 million masks.
Yossi Mellman reports:
It is most likely that Cohen is trying to leverage his contacts to charm his acquaintances – the leaders and heads of intelligence in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – to persuade them to help Israel’s deteriorating health system. It is likely that these two states bought their protective and diagnostic equipment from China. If this is the case, Israel is the only country in the world known to have mobilized its intelligence agency for such a mission. It reflects Netanyahu’s incompetence