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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 535

Ronen Bergman

Otto Skorzeny, Austrian-born German SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) in the Waffen-SS in World War II. (WikiCommons)
May 22, 2022, 2:22 pm
Story of Mossad’s ties with high-ranking Nazi to become TV show
Doug Liman to direct limited series about enlistment of Otto Skorzeny to help sabotage Egyptian missile program, which will be based on chapter in Israeli journalist’s book
By Michael Horovitz
This photo released by the semi-official Fars News Agency shows the scene where Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed in Absard, a small city just east of the capital, Tehran, Iran, Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. (Fars News Agency via AP)
December 5, 2020, 3:51 am
Mossad expert, ex-spies outline planning, challenges of targeted killings
Journalist Ronen Bergman, former agents Victor Ostrovsky, Ram Ben-Barak give Israeli TV theoretical look at how assassinations work, following hit on Iranian scientist Fakhrizadeh
By ToI Staff
File - Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah terror group hold portraits of its leader Hassan Nasrallah (R) and its former military chief Imad Mughniyeh during a protest in Beirut on December 11, 2017. (AFP Photo/Joseph Eid)
January 22, 2020, 12:45 am
Keshet and HBO team up for new show about targeted killings
‘Rise and Kill First’ is based on the bestselling book by Ronen Bergman
By Jessica Steinberg
In this March 24, 2010 file photo a Palestinian youth walks out of a store covered with posters of of assassinated Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, one of the founders of Hamas military wing, near his family house in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip. (AP/Adel Hana)
August 8, 2018, 4:01 am
Are Israel’s alleged assassinations a silver bullet or can they miss the mark?
Israel has reportedly ramped up targeted killings, including a Syrian scientist slain Saturday, as a way of taking care of terrorists and scaring others, but it doesn’t always work
By Ron Kampeas
Jerold S. Auerbach
March 16, 2018, 1:04 pm
Jerold S. Auerbach
That’s a novel idea, trading land for peace
When you claim Israel’s targeted killings ignore your peace plan, you’re forgetting the efforts of 25 years
Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely attends a ceremony at the Knesset, on November 21, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 18, 2018, 10:03 am
Deputy FM: Polish PM must apologize for ‘outrageous’ remark on Jews
Foreign Ministry to convene emergency meeting over Polish leader’s claim that Jews also perpetrated Holocaust
By Michael Bachner
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a lunch meeting at the 54th Munich Security Conference on February 16, 2018. (AFP Photo/ DPA/Sven Hoppe)
February 17, 2018, 8:19 pm
Netanyahu calls Polish PM’s claim of Jewish Holocaust perpetrators ‘outrageous’
Mateusz Morawiecki’s remarks show ‘an inability to understand history and a lack of sensitivity to the tragedy of our people,’ PM says
By Alexander Fulbright and Tamar Pileggi
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki gives a press conference with the German Chancellor on February 16, 2018 at the Chancellery in Berlin. (AFP Photo/John MacDougall)
February 17, 2018, 4:51 pm
Israeli opposition hammers Polish PM for saying Jews also perpetrated Holocaust
Zionist Union’s Gabbay likens Morawiecki to Holocaust denier, while Yair Lapid says his remark is ‘anti-Semitism of the oldest kind,’ urges Israeli envoy be recalled
By Alexander Fulbright and Tamar Pileggi
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki gives a speech during the Munich Security Conference on February 17, 2018, in Munich, southern Germany. (AFP PHOTO / Thomas KIENZLE)
February 17, 2018, 3:07 pm
Polish prime minister says Jews perpetrated Holocaust too
Defending controversial Holocaust law, Mateusz Morawiecki tells Israeli journalist that many Poles aided their ‘Jewish brothers and sisters’ during the war
By Tamar Pileggi
A mural in Gaza City in 2012 shows (left) Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, killed by Israel in a March 2004 missile strike, and PLO chief Yasser Arafat, who died of a mysterious illness in November of the same year. (Wissam Nassar/Flash90)
January 26, 2018, 9:46 am
How Israel’s leaders use targeted killings to try to ‘stop history’
Ronen Bergman, author of ‘Rise and Kill First,’ a revelatory history of Israeli strikes on individual enemies, dissects his discoveries and their often discomfiting implications
By David Horovitz
President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Monday, March, 5, 2012, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
January 26, 2018, 9:46 am
Netanyahu’s threats to attack Iran ‘panicked’ Obama into nuke talks, author says
Ronen Bergman, writer of new book on Israel’s targeted assassinations, says the prime minister, in his belligerency, helped prompt the very deal he so bitterly opposes
By David Horovitz
PLO chief Yasser Arafat, in keffiyah, photographed by an Israeli sniper, leaving Beirut in 1982 (courtesy Oded Shamir)
January 26, 2018, 9:45 am
Mossad chose not to nab Mengele, didn’t hunt down Munich terrorists, book claims
Ronen Bergman’s new study of Israel’s decades of targeted assassinations is filled with fresh disclosures and myth-busting revelations. These are just a few
By David Horovitz
Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan (Kobi Gideon/Flash90, File)
April 4, 2016, 12:23 pm
Netanyahu the ‘worst manager,’ kept changing his mind, spymaster said before he died
In comments published posthumously, Meir Dagan claims PM puts personal interests above those of the state; also says no military action could completely stop Iran’s nuclear program
By ToI Staff
US President Barack Obama (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) prepare for a press session in the White House in Washington, DC, September 30, 2013. (AP/Charles Dharapak)
April 6, 2015, 3:07 pm
For Netanyahu and Obama, a front page face-off
President assures Israel of his commitment to its security; PM warns Iran deal places the Jewish state’s survival at risk
By Marissa Newman
Illustrative photo of doctors performing lung surgery at the Ein Karem Hadassah Medical Centerin Jerusalem in 1996 (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
From the WebDecember 4, 2012, 4:12 pm
The blood libel that won’t quit
Tablet: In Sweden, a respected magazine is reviving the canard that the IDF plundered the organs of Palestinians
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