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Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, 300 kms (186 miles) south of capital Tehran, Iran, April, 9, 2007. (Hasan Sarbakhshian/AP)
TV report: MI6 spy chief makes secret Israel trip amid new Iran nuclear activity
By TOI staff and Agencies
Channel 13: Alex Younger holds talks with Mossad chief as Iran renews centrifuge production; Israeli assessment: Regime has not yet made political decision to break out to bomb
Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, 300 kms (186 miles) south of capital Tehran, Iran, April, 9, 2007. (Hasan Sarbakhshian/AP)
February 22, 2019, 8:36 pm
TV report: MI6 spy chief makes secret Israel trip amid new Iran nuclear activity
Channel 13: Alex Younger holds talks with Mossad chief as Iran renews centrifuge production; Israeli assessment: Regime has not yet made political decision to break out to bomb
By TOI staff and Agencies
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks during a GOTV concert at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania November 5, 2016. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)
February 13, 2019, 1:12 am
Ex-Mossad agents formed company that targeted Clinton campaign, BDS activists
New Yorker report details Israeli firm Psy-group’s attempt to influence US presidential elections, discourse on American campuses
By Marcy Oster
Screen capture from video of a rubber dinghy used by Iranian migrants to cross the English Channel from France, December 31, 2018. (YouTube)
February 10, 2019, 8:38 pm
Mossad pulled its agent out of Iran, MI6 smuggled him to UK on dinghy – report
Sunday Express says nuclear scientist with knowledge of program in wake of 2015 deal was eventually transferred to US
By Stuart Winer
File: A man lays flowers as he pays his respects in front of a makeshift memorial at the entrance of the Jewish Museum in Brussels, where a deadly shooting took place the day before, killing four, May 25, 2014 (Georges GOBET / AFP)
January 31, 2019, 8:38 am
Israeli orphans to face accused Brussels Jewish museum killer
Ayelet and Shira, daughters of Miriam and Emmanuel Riva who were murdered in 2014 attack, travel from Tel Aviv to testify at trial of Mehdi Nemmouche
By AFP
Lebanese security forces secure the area following a car bomb blast in the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon on January 14, 2018. (Mahmoud Zayyat / AFP)
January 22, 2019, 7:34 pm
Lebanon: ‘Mossad agent’ arrested over attempted killing of Hamas official
Beirut says second suspect has been detained over January 2018 incident, claims he admitted to being spy for Israel
By AFP
A court sketch made on January 22, 2019, at the Brussels Justice Palace, shows people watching video images during the trial of Frenchman Mehdi Nemmouche, accused of shooting four people dead at a Jewish museum in Brussels. (Igor Preys/Belga/AFP)
January 22, 2019, 7:06 pm
Investigators reject claim Mossad behind Brussels Jewish museum attack
Lawyer for defendant Mehdi Nemmouche vows he’ll prove that Israeli victims in the shooting worked for the intelligence agency
By AFP
Mossad chief Yossi Cohen speaks at the launch event for intelligence agency's Libertad Fund on June 27, 2017. (Gershom/GPO)
January 18, 2019, 8:58 pm
Mossad chief’s personal information revealed online — report
Israel hackers discover site, which appears to be based in Lebanon; it also features details on IDF’s Arabic spokesman; personal data of website’s visitors apparently compromised
By TOI staff
US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, eastern Switzerland, on January 25, 2018 (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)
January 15, 2019, 10:56 pm
Netanyahu said to have asked Trump for support ahead of Mossad operation in Iran
TV report says PM sought assistance from US president in case intelligence agents had to be rescued during mission to obtain nuclear files
By TOI staff
Mossad head Yossi Cohen attends a handover ceremony for the position of chief of military intelligence at the Glilot military base, near Tel Aviv, on March 28, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 8, 2019, 7:58 pm
News site claims Mossad head met Saudi, UAE, Egypt intel officials on Gulf visit
Unconfirmed Middle East Eye report says Yossi Cohen agreed with counterparts on measures to counter Iran and Turkey; reportedly said Ankara a bigger threat than Tehran
By TOI staff
Members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, hold a banner bearing a portrait of one of their top scientists, Mohamed Zoari, who was killed in Tunisia on December 15, 2018, during a ceremony in his memory on December 18, 2016, in Gaza City. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)
December 12, 2018, 8:51 am
Tunisia arrests two Bosnians in 2016 killing of Hamas drone expert
Gaza-based terror group has blamed Israel’s Mossad for the assassination of Mohammed al-Zoari, one of its top scientists
By TOI staff
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks out of a helicopter as he arrives in northern Israel, December 6, 2018 (Amit Shabi/Yedioth Ahronoth/POOL)
December 6, 2018, 9:13 pm
PM: Thanks to Israel, Hezbollah has dozens of precision missiles, not thousands
Netanyahu hints at Mossad involvement in operations that have thwarted the transfer of weaponry to the Iran-backed terror group
By Michael Bachner
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
Hezbollah flag flies in Lebanon (CC Upyernoz/Wikipedia)
November 20, 2018, 1:35 am
Mossad said to thwart Hezbollah terror plot against Jewish targets in Argentina
Israel’s intelligence service reportedly passed information which led to arrest of suspects in Buenos Aires; 3 men said to confirm they planned to attack Jewish targets
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon at a special cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 11, 2018. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool/Flash90)
November 18, 2018, 3:27 pm
After bitter debate, cabinet approves budget cut to raise cops’ salaries
Across-the-board budget cut of 1.35% will cover multi-billion-shekel cost of equalizing police, Prisons Service, Shin Bet and Mossad salaries to those of IDF soldiers
By TOI staff
A still from filmmaker Duki Dror's 'Inside the Mossad.' (Courtesy/Ron Katzenelson)
November 15, 2018, 1:48 pm
Mossad unveiled: Human side of the world’s most mysterious intelligence agency
In his new documentary ‘Inside the Mossad,’ screening in London on November 15, Israeli filmmaker Duki Dror examines how actions ‘taken by someone unknown’ could impact history
By Anne Joseph
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