Yossi Cohen

Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting in the Israeli parliament on April 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

May 2, 2018, 6:39 pm

Lapid says PM seriously harmed national security with Iran revelations

Yesh Atid head: Netanyahu is making mistakes he would not have made in the past, such as televised presentation of smuggled nuclear archive

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech on Iran's nuclear program at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on April 30, 2018. ( AFP PHOTO / Jack GUEZ)

May 1, 2018, 4:33 am

Mossad stole Iran’s nuke archive and smuggled it back to Israel the same night

Senior Israeli official tells New York Times the spy agency discovered the warehouse in 2016 and had it under surveillance; Trump briefed on raid by Mossad chief Yossi Cohen

By TOI staff

A picture taken on April 21, 2018 shows men holding up a poster portrait of 35-year-old Palestinian professor and Hamas member Fadi Mohammad al-Batsh who was killed in Malaysia, outside his family's house in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza strip. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

April 26, 2018, 10:34 am

Malaysian hit said part of broad Mossad op against Hamas global training efforts

New York Times claims spy agency is looking to stymie terror group's bid to obtain new technology and weaponry from overseas for its war with Israel

By TOI staff

Yossi Cohen, the head of the Mossad, is seen in a committee meeting at the Israeli parliament on December 8, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

April 4, 2018, 10:50 pm

Mossad chief ‘100 percent certain’ Iran still seeks nuclear bomb

In closed security meeting, Yossi Cohen says nuke deal a 'terrible mistake,' must be 'completely changed or scrapped'

By Josef Federman

The Mossad stand at Cybertech 2017 (Courtesy: Gilad Kavalerchik)

March 12, 2018, 5:46 pm

Mossad venture arm makes first investments in spy tech

Intelligence agency does not reveal name of startups, says they are expected to supply their technologies in 2018-19

By Shoshanna Solomon

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak at a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, on February 16, 2016, after a joint cabinet meeting. (AFP /Odd Andersen)

January 12, 2018, 9:35 pm

Top Merkel aide said to tell Israel that Berlin willing to work on Iran missiles

German chancellor's foreign policy adviser, in Israel for high-level talks, reportedly insists nuclear deal must be preserved

By TOI staff and Agencies

Mossad chief Yossi Cohen speaks at an event honoring agents from the security service on October 2, 2017. (Screen capture: Government Press Office/YouTube)

January 9, 2018, 2:09 pm

Mossad chief: Protests unlikely to topple Iran regime

Yossi Cohen says Islamic Republic pouring more cash into security, intelligence and 'galloping into the Middle East without hindrance'

By TOI staff and Agencies

A still from a video reportedly showing an Israeli airstrike near Damascus on December 4, 2017. (screen capture: Twitter)

January 9, 2018, 1:18 pm

Netanyahu: Israel acts to keep game-changing arms away from Hezbollah

After reported airstrikes on targets in Syria, PM and Mossad chief warn against advanced Iranian munitions reaching terror groups

By Judah Ari Gross

October 2, 2017, 6:56 pm

Mossad chief: Iran ‘closer than ever before’ to Israel’s borders

At event honoring espionage service, top spy Yossi Cohen says agents conduct 'thousands of operations,' some deep in enemy countries

By Judah Ari Gross

October 2, 2017, 7:11 am

In first, two women appointed as Mossad division heads

Reaching rank equivalent to an IDF major general, 'S' and 'L' now head up units of Israel's secretive national intelligence agency

By TOI staff

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures during a press conference with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto (out of frame), at the Los Pinos Residence in Mexico City, on September 14, 2017. (AFP/ Alfredo ESTRELLA)

September 17, 2017, 11:11 pm

Israel claims UN ignored intel on secret Iran nuke sites — report

Officials said to accuse IAEA of failing to act on information it received detailing forbidden nuclear military R&D being carried out at several facilities

By TOI staff

Yossi Cohen, Mossad chief, speaks at a committee meeting in the Knesset on December 2, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90/File)

September 17, 2017, 9:17 pm

Mossad chief said pushing to ‘act now’ to prevent Iranian nuclear bomb

Yossi Cohen reportedly leading calls to cancel 2015 nuclear deal; Israeli sources say PM will focus his UN address on curbing Tehran's regional aggression

By Raphael Ahren and Raoul Wootliff

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi on August 23, 2017. (AFP/Sputnik/Alexey Nikolsky)

August 23, 2017, 7:37 pm

Netanyahu to Putin: Israel will act if needed against Iran in Syria

'We will act when necessary according to our red lines,' PM says he told Russian president during 3-hour meeting in Sochi

By Raoul Wootliff

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of their meeting in Sochi on August 23, 2017. (AFP Photo/Sputnik/Alexey Nikolsky)

August 23, 2017, 12:36 pm

Netanyahu meets Putin to share secret intel on Iran threat

In Sochi, Mossad chief reportedly presents 'detailed intelligence' to Russian leader on Iranian military presence in Syria

By Alexander Fulbright

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) during their meeting in Moscow on March 9, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Pavel Golovkin)

August 22, 2017, 8:40 pm

In talks with Putin, Netanyahu to focus on Iran threat

PM holds security consultation with Mossad head and national security adviser a day ahead of their trip to Sochi

By Raoul Wootliff and TOI staff