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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 573

KGB

US President Donald Trump, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin arrive for a meeting in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16, 2018. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)
January 29, 2021, 1:51 pm
KGB groomed Trump as an asset for 40 years, former Russian spy says
New book interviewing Yuri Shvets and many other sources alleges Moscow rescued Trump’s businesses with laundered funds, directly tying this to ex-president’s affinity for Putin
By ToI Staff
In this file photo taken in Nov. 15, 2006, George Blake, a former British spy and double agent in service of the Soviet Union, seen in Moscow, Russia (AP Photo, File)
December 26, 2020, 2:12 pm
British-Soviet Cold War double agent George Blake dies in Moscow aged 98
Spy passed names of hundreds of MI6 agents to KGB; escaped London jail with rope ladder; said he hated Nazis ‘because of my background. I was a British subject; I was half-Jewish’
By Max Delany
Raoul Wallenberg (Wikimedia Commons)
September 23, 2019, 1:39 pm
Raoul Wallenberg’s family demands Sweden press Russia for news of his fate
Stockholm has long resisted pressure to confront Moscow over the diplomat, who saved tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Attorney Itamar Ben Gvir holds a press conference with family members of Yehuda and Tamar Kaduri, who was found dead in their home in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood, Jerusalem, January 30, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 10, 2019, 10:11 am
Otzma Yehudit’s Ben Gvir sues Liberman for implying he’s a Shin Bet agent
Far-right candidate demands NIS 250,000, citing similar previous case that he won; says Yisrael Beytenu chief ‘slandered — and will pay’
By Michael Bachner
Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman speaks at an event in Ganei Tikva, on February 25, 2019. (Flash90)
March 7, 2019, 5:43 pm
Far-right candidate threatens to sue Liberman for implying he’s a Shin Bet agent
Itamar Ben Gvir of Otzma Yehudit says that if he’s a mole for the security service, then Soviet-born ex-defense minister is a ‘KGB agent’
By Michael Bachner
Gonen Segev is sworn in at the Knesset in 1993 at the age of 35 (Hadashot TV screenshot)
June 19, 2018, 1:06 am
If convicted, ex-minister will head long list of top officials revealed as spies
While certainly not the first senior official charged with espionage, Gonen Segev is the highest-ranking — and the only one who allegedly worked for Iran
By Raphael Ahren
Journalists watch as Russian President Vladimir Putin gives his annual state of the nation address in Manezh in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
March 17, 2018, 3:59 pm
Vladimir Putin: From mean streets to perpetual power
The ex-KGB agent turned president has made himself indistinguishable from the Kremlin, all but guaranteeing his reelection for a 4th term
By Jim Heintz
Raoul Wallenberg (Wikimedia Commons)
February 21, 2018, 8:23 am
Moscow court denies appeal by Raoul Wallenberg’s family to see his files
Judges uphold decision against opening records of ‘Swedish Schindler,’ keeping his fate under the Soviet Union shrouded in doubt
By AFP
Howard Kaplan
September 24, 2017, 1:27 pm
Howard Kaplan
The KGB arrested me and launched my career
Those police did warn me not to write about my time in the Soviet Union….
Raoul Wallenberg (Wikimedia Commons)
July 27, 2017, 5:44 pm
Raoul Wallenberg’s family sues Russia’s security service
Relatives want FSB to open KGB archives over Swedish diplomat’s disappearance in 1945 after saving tens of thousands of Jews
By AFP
A still image from the film 'Bridge of Spies,' which tells the story of a Cold War exchange of agents between the US and Soviet Russia (screen capture: YouTube)
December 30, 2016, 6:46 pm
From dead drops to hacking: Moscow spies on world stage
A brief account of some of the most brazen Soviet and Russian espionage over the last few decades
By AFP
US President Barack Obama waves as he wraps up a year-end press conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, December 16, 2016. (AFP/Zach Gibson)
December 17, 2016, 8:08 am
Obama vows to send ‘clear message’ to Russia on election meddling
President cautions Trump not to ignore Moscow’s interference in US politics; says Reagan ‘would roll over in his grave’ at Republican support of Putin
By Andrew BEATTY
KGB logo
October 26, 2016, 2:08 pm
Top Israeli officials were part of KGB spy ring — report
Soviet records show a number of agents in high Israeli places, including lawmakers, military engineers and a senior general
By ToI Staff
Israel's border with Egypt. (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
October 26, 2016, 1:16 pm
It’s 3 p.m., do you know where your poor, uneducated teens are?
The death of a 15-year-old working on the border fence raises tough questions, like why a kid was out there and what it means for Israeli society
By Joshua Davidovich
A newspaper in printing process at a newspaper printing plant in Tel Yitzhak (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
September 8, 2016, 4:57 pm
Reporting the reported and scooping the scooped
Thursday’s papers largely provide a news roundup by giving prominence to stories already covered by non-print media outlets
By Raoul Wootliff
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