Tamir Pardo

Yesh Atid's Yair Lapid, left, and former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, right. (Flash90)

January 14, 2019, 9:24 pm

Gantz and Lapid said discussing alliance, but neither wants to be number two

TV report claims partnership between would-be PMs would only come to fruition if one of their parties collapses in the polls

By TOI staff

Visitors to the 5th International Homeland Security and Cyber Exhibition, Tel Aviv, are picked up by surveillance software that uses facial recognition, November 13, 2018. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

November 15, 2018, 3:19 pm

Guns, drones, and surveillance equipment: Big Brother steps out in Tel Aviv

Some of the technology on show at the 5th International Homeland Security and Cyber Exhibition is positively spooky

By Sue Surkes

Head of the Mossad Tamir Pardo speaks during a ceremony marking 50 years since the death of Mossad agent Eli Cohen, at the President's residence on May 18, 2015. (Haim Zach/GPO)

November 14, 2018, 9:50 pm

Harvard hoax site claims former Mossad chief called Liberman a Russian agent

Website designed to look like university department falsely claims Tamir Pardo, who actually did give a talk there last week, predicted Netanyahu would fire the defense minister

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with outgoing Mossad chief Tamir Pardo during a farewell ceremony for Pardo in Tel Aviv on January 5, 2015. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

June 3, 2018, 1:09 pm

‘Mossad isn’t a crime syndicate,’ Netanyahu says in dig at ex-spy chief

Former agency head Tamir Pardo had accused PM of trying to wiretap his phone, pushing for a strike on Iran

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, seen with outgoing Mossad chief Tamir Pardo during a farewell ceremony in Tel Aviv on January 5, 2015. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

June 1, 2018, 9:49 pm

PM’s phone tapping request said part of effort to stop leaks in secret project

After allegations Netanyahu requested surveillance of head of Mossad, IDF, report says he did not specifically target the two, but wanted greater oversight of all involved

By TOI staff

Shin Bet commander Yoram Cohen, left, and IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz in December 2011. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

June 1, 2018, 6:50 pm

Ex-Shin Bet head denies PM asked him to ‘specifically’ tap IDF and Mossad chiefs

Netanyahu also rejects report, slams ‘no limit to lies’ after ‘Uvda’ TV program claims he tried but failed to eavesdrop on top security brass

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with then-IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, Shin Bet head Yoram Cohen, Mossad director Tamir Pardo, and NSC head Yossi Cohen at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, to discuss the disappearance of three Jewish teenagers near Hebron, in the West Bank, June 14, 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

June 1, 2018, 5:50 pm

PM: I listen to Arik Einstein, Beatles, not phone calls of IDF and Mossad heads

Netanyahu slams the media for ‘lies’ after a report alleged he asked the Shin Bet security agency in 2011 to tap the phones of top spy and army chief

By Judah Ari Gross and Alexander Fulbright

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and then Shin Bet chief Yoram Cohen at IDF Headquarters in Tel Aviv, July 2014. (Haim Zach/GPO/Flash90)

June 1, 2018, 12:37 pm

Ex-Shin Bet head denies PM asked him to tap IDF, Mossad chiefs’ phones

Netanyahu also rejects report, slams ‘no limit to lies’ after ‘Uvda’ TV program claims he tried but failed to eavesdrop on top security brass

By Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff

June 1, 2018, 10:45 am

Restraining orders: 7 things to know for June 1

In 2011 and last week, Israel came closer to war than many realize, halted only by a Mossad chief, a hard-line but realist minister and some dumb luck

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praises the Iranian people in an English language video released on May 31, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

June 1, 2018, 2:40 am

In video, Netanyahu accuses Tehran regime of ‘plundering’ Iranians’ smarts

Prime minister praises expats from enemy country for making it big in Silicon Valley, asks why they have to leave to do so

By TOI staff

June 1, 2018, 12:23 am

Netanyahu asked Shin Bet to tap phones of IDF, Mossad heads — report

PM’s office denies ‘Uvda’ TV program’s claim he tried, but failed, to get then-Shin Bet chief Yoram Cohen to eavesdrop on top brass over fears they were leaking information

By Judah Ari Gross

Former Mossad director Tamir Pardo participates in the Meir Dagan Conference for Strategy and Defense, at the Netanya College, on March 21, 2018. (Meir Vaaknin/Flash90)

May 31, 2018, 12:18 pm

Ex-Mossad chief: In 2011 Netanyahu ordered military to ready Iran strike

Tamir Pardo says he checked legality of PM taking action that could lead to war, considered resigning rather than carry out orders

By Stuart Winer

Ehud Olmert, right, and Ehud Barak in the Knesset on March 30, 2009. Miriam Alster/Flash90)

March 23, 2018, 5:09 am

Decade after clandestine Syria strike, revelation sparks a war for credit

Former leaders snipe at each other over who said what in lead-up to Israel’s bombing of Assad’s nuclear facility in 2007, while ex-spies blame each other for failing to spot danger

By Judah Ari Gross

Former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo speaks at a conference in memory of his predecessor as head of the spy agency, Meir Dagan, on March 21, 2018. (Tamir Bergig)

March 22, 2018, 12:09 pm

Reactor strike gives way to radioactive reactions: 9 things to know for March 22

With the Syria attack ‘secret’ out of the box, officials seek credit and point fingers, creating such a toxic atmosphere some wish the news had stayed under wraps

By Joshua Davidovich

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting of his Yisrael Beytenu party in the Knesset, March 12, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

March 21, 2018, 6:29 pm

Defense minister regrets releasing details of attack on Syrian nuclear reactor

Liberman condemns public spat between former military intelligence and Mossad chiefs over who uncovered intel on reactor

By Stuart Winer