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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 586

Efraim Halevy

Demonstrators gather with placards during an anti-government protest calling for action to secure the release of hostages held captive since the October 7, 2023, attacks by Gazan Palestinian terrorists, outside the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, on April 5, 2025. (Hazem Bader / AFP)
April 14, 2025, 9:42 am
Ex-Mossad members, paratroopers, medics join call for hostage deal even if it ends war
3 former security service leaders join wave of statements started by pilots’ letter calling to prioritize captives over fighting: ‘Every day that passes puts their lives at risk’
By ToI Staff and Stav Levaton
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal waves during a visit to the Islamic University in Gaza City, Dec. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
August 24, 2022, 3:18 pm
Begging royal mercy: How Israel recovered from the botched Mashaal hit, 25 years ago
Efraim Halevy, who handled the crisis with Jordan after the failed Mossad attempt to kill Hamas leader, recalls tense negotiations with King Hussein, with agents’ lives on the line
By Amir Bar Shalom
Efraim Halevy, the ninth director of the Mossad intelligence agency, on January 27, 2015. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
September 11, 2021, 3:35 pm
Mossad spy chief on 9/11: We realized rules for fighting terror had to change
Efraim Halevy was meeting the PM when the news came in: ‘Sharon told me something has happened. You should be in your office’
By Judah Ari Gross
Former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy speaks at a conference commemorating his successor, Meir Dagan, in Netanya on June 9, 2021. (Tamir Bargig/Netanya Academic College)
June 9, 2021, 5:27 pm
Ex-spymaster: PM bragging about Israeli deeds, abilities broke long-time policy
Efraim Halevy accuses PM of self-aggrandizement, notes wryly that Netanyahu practically compared himself to God in recent speech
By Judah Ari Gross
Centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, November 5, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)
April 12, 2021, 3:10 pm
Ex-Mossad head: Political leaders want Iran sabotage attributed to Israel
Efraim Halevy says potential retaliation by Tehran dependent on its upcoming elections, nuclear talks with US; adds Iran has means to hit Israel that it hasn’t previously used
By ToI Staff
Efraim Halevy is interviewed by the Times of Israel's David Horovitz, February 26, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
January 5, 2021, 9:50 pm
Former Mossad head Efraim Halevy opens up: Early access for ToI Community
In this week’s Behind the Headlines, our editor-in-chief David Horovitz gets candid with the spymaster, who still has a few surprises up his sleeve
By ToI Staff
Alec Guinness in the role of George Smiley (left); ex-Mossad chief Efraim Halevy (Combo photo: Acorn Media and Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 14, 2020, 4:34 pm
Smiley & me? No, no, no! Ex-Mossad chief on his non-link to le Carré’s antihero
UK-born Efraim Halevy was rising in the Mossad while a possible fictional doppelganger was ascending in the ‘Circus.’ But Halevy knows the author’s inspiration came from elsewhere
By David Horovitz
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell addresses a video press conference at the conclusion of a video conference of EU foreign affairs ministers in Brussels, April 22, 2020. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool Photo via AP)
April 30, 2020, 6:37 am
Lots of bark, some actual bite? How the world will react to West Bank annexation
The international community fiercely opposes the move, but what would it do about it? In this time of pandemic, ‘there will be little patience with Israel,’ ex-Mossad chief warns
By Raphael Ahren
Yuval Diskin address online protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on March 21, 2020. (Screen capture/Facebook)
March 22, 2020, 12:42 am
Nearly 600,000 watch virtual protest against PM, Likud’s shuttering of Knesset
Former Shin Bet, Mossad heads and ex-Supreme Court deputy chief address Facebook event, urge Gantz to refrain from joining coalition led by Netanyahu over his indictments
By Jacob Magid
Former Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin speaks in Tel Aviv in 2012. (Tali Mayer/Flash90)
February 28, 2020, 6:12 am
Former Mossad, Shin Bet heads call Netanyahu ‘a danger’ who puts country at risk
In video, six ex-security chiefs say prime minister has lost right to lead country, uses sensitive classified information for personal gain
By ToI Staff
Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal talks to the Associated Press in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Saturday Nov. 24, 2018 (AP/Kamran Jebreili)
November 24, 2018, 5:49 pm
Saudi royal laments Khashoggi’s killing, is wary on rapprochement with Israel
Prince Turki al-Faisal says his appearance last year on a panel with former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy does not represent a normalizing of relations
By Aya Batrawy
Former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy (photo credit: CC BY-SA Eli Itkin/Wikimedia Commons)
November 11, 2018, 10:11 am
Ex-Mossad chief Efraim Halevy joins controversial Israeli spy firm Black Cube
Company linked to efforts to target former senior White House officials, accusers of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein
By ToI Staff
Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, shakes hands with Wang Qishan after Wang was elected vice-president during a plenary session of China's National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, March 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
October 14, 2018, 4:53 am
Officials warn of risks in warming business ties with China
With Beijing’s VP set to visit, observers tell Economist that Israel would be wise to regard attention from the Asian giant with caution
By ToI Staff
Top row: Former Mossad chiefs from L to R: Danny Yatom, Tamir Pardo, Zvi Zamir, Shabtai Shavit, Nahum Admoni and Efraim Halevy. Bottom row: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and President Reuven Rivlin host a candle lighting ceremony for of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah at the President's residence in Jerusalem on December 18, 2014. (Haim Zach / GPO)
March 28, 2018, 12:55 am
Ex-Mossad chief: Israel ‘dangerously sick’ under Netanyahu’s leadership
Five former spymasters say PM eroding country’s core values, decry ‘pervasive’ culture of corruption under his tenure
By ToI Staff
Former Mossad chief Efraim Haley (L), Prince Turki bin Faisal al-Saud, former chief of Saudi intelligence (C) and Michèle Flournoy, former US undersecretary of defense for policy (R) talk with the Israel Policy Forum's executive director David Halperin during a panel discussion at the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center in New York City on October 22, 2017 (Screen capture)
October 23, 2017, 10:09 pm
In NY synagogue, Saudi Royal and ex-Mossad chief debate Trump’s Iran approach
‘After Trump decertifies nuke deal and vows to leave it if Congress doesn’t make changes,’ Efrain Halevy says deal should ‘focus on the nuclear issue and nothing else’
By Eric Cortellessa
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