Sublime

The year was 1968, and in the hyper-intensive intelligence atmosphere of the time, this was big news. Brill, a major in IDF Military Intelligence Directorate—known by its Hebrew acronym, Aman—set aside the report he was reading and got up.

A small crowd surrounded the agent in the department’s main nerve center, a room where all intelligence flowed before being distributed to the various case officers. Colonel Avraham Arnan, Brill’s direct superior, was focusing on one photograph.

The “agent” was one of the first Israeli spies to successfully infiltrate Egypt since the Six Day War had ended, a year earlier. He had photos that were supposed to reveal Egyptian war plans, including possible preparations behind the cease-fire line.

IBRAHIM OTHMAN

In the last few decades, Sayeret Matkal, along with the operational technology intelligence unit, belong to the special operations organ (MEM-MEM) within the IDF Intelligence Directorate.

I was asked by Oded Messer, operation officer of Yitzhak Sadeh, to bring our M-2 mortars to another battlefield, Iraq al-Manshiyya. We fired several shells from this canon, which had a barrel made from a train wagon axle. This weapon was quite effective. It was not heavy and could be carried by hand, unlike the M-3, which was heavy and dangerous. I

IN APRIL 1964, AMIT sent Rafi Eitan to Paris, which served as the European nerve center of Israeli intelligence, to run Junction’s operations on the Continent. Up to this point, all of Junction’s efforts to enlist one of the scientists had come to naught, mostly because of the rigid security precautions instituted by Vallentin. From day to day, he

One of the most fascinating chapters in the history of the State of Israel concerns the contribution of young Israeli scientists to the security of the newly established State. The term Cheil Mada (the Science Corps)—or HEMED, as it was known—remains largely unknown. Only a handful of members of today’s generation are aware that David Ben-Gurion wa