Efraim Halevy

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

Illustrative photo of a rally in North Korea (Shutterstock)

August 10, 2017, 9:22 am

The curious tale of Israel’s short-lived courtship of North Korea

25 years after the Foreign Ministry and Mossad each sent a delegation to Pyongyang trying to stop it from selling arms to Israel’s enemies, the episode still stirs up bitterness and controversy

By Raphael Ahren

Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Ziv (R), the Israeli guard who was stabbed in the Amman embassy complex earlier this week, and Israel's ambassador to Jordan Einat Schlein (not pictured), at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 25, 2017. Haim Zach / GPO)

July 28, 2017, 3:00 am

Ex-Mossad chief: Israel embarrassed a key ally for sake of public opinion

Efraim Halevy says government emptied embassy in Jordan when it was needed most, rebukes politicians for escalating Temple Mount crisis by focusing on sovereignty rather than security

By Judah Ari Gross

David Grossman always likes reading to kids, being "tourists" in the same story (photo credit: Jorge Novominsky/Flash 90)

March 30, 2017, 2:59 pm

Sunday’s Grossman interview will culminate our first, terrific, ToI Presents series

Op-Ed: Thanks for making our opening set of English-speaking events such a success. And be sure not to miss Sunday’s finale

By David Horovitz

Efraim Halevy is interviewed by the Times of Israel's David Horovitz, February 26, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

February 27, 2017, 2:00 pm

Ex-Mossad chief: On thwarting Iran, Netanyahu should be speaking to Putin, not Trump

Former spymaster Efraim Halevy shares anecdotes, analysis on Russia, Iran and the Palestinians at sold-out Times of Israel event

By Judah Ari Gross

February 20, 2017, 10:44 am

Ex-Mossad chief to discuss Trump’s America, Russian intel, Israeli strategy and more at Times of Israel event

Efraim Halevy to give rare public interview in Jerusalem next Sunday

By David Horovitz

Moshe Ya'alon in the Knesset on March 28, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

June 25, 2016, 7:26 pm

Ya’alon rips coalition chair for scorning security chiefs as ‘leftist’

Ousted defense minister says Likud MK David Bitan enabling ‘dangerous political attempts to destroy the security establishment’

By TOI staff

Coalition Chairman MK David Bitan on January 11, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

June 25, 2016, 2:12 pm

Coalition chair: Security chiefs ‘all become leftists’ on the job

Likud MK David Bitan says ‘there’s a problem’ with officials that lead Mossad, Shin Bet, as their positions take them left over time

By TOI staff

April 1, 2016, 1:11 pm

Ex-Mossad chief: I broke the law ‘doing what I was doing’

Efraim Halevy tells Jewish students in London he can’t give details of his activities as he has no desire ‘to spend the rest of my life in jail’

By TOI staff

Convert 'Katya' and her daughter sit before the independent Giyur K'halacha conversion court, led by Rabbi Nahum Rabinovitch (center) on August 10, 2015. (courtesy)

August 12, 2015, 10:06 am

Will new conversion court rend or repair the fabric of Israeli society?

With a recalcitrant state conversion program and a growing class of ‘religionless’ FSU immigrants, a group of respected national Zionist rabbis are promoting conversion ‘as it should be’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

US Secretary of State John Kerry quotes a Washington Post article, which cites Israeli ex-security personnel who supposedly support the Iran nuclear deal, during a Senate hearing on July 23, 2015. (Screen capture: RollCall)

August 4, 2015, 6:18 am

Despite White House claims, Israel’s security chiefs are split on Iran deal

Obama administration keeps hailing defense officials’ ostensible backing of nuclear accord loathed by Netanyahu; but the picture is far more nuanced

By Judah Ari Gross