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Maj. Gen. Eli Zeira in an undated photo (Israel Defense Forces)
December 20, 2025, 7:20 am
How onetime rising IDF star Eli Zeira’s repeat miscalculations cost his country and career
Dead last month at 97, military intelligence chief was regarded by critics as over-confident and obdurate, but cost of his arrogance was only recognized when it was too late, hours before Yom Kippur War
By Abraham Rabinovich
File: Mossad Director David Barnea speaks during a Conference of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), in Tel Aviv, on September 10, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
January 3, 2024, 4:30 pm
Mossad chief: Those who took part in Oct. 7 massacre signed their own death warrant
At funeral of Zvi Zamir, David Barnea says ex-spymaster’s spirit ‘will accompany us’ on mission to kill Hamas heads, likening it to Zamir’s hunt for 1972 Munich Massacre culprits
By ToI Staff
Zvi Zamir speaks at a memorial service marking 21 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, held at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on November 4, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 2, 2024, 9:07 am
Zvi Zamir, the man who sounded the alarm in 1973, is dead at 98
As Mossad chief, Zamir spearheaded the post-Munich campaign against Palestinian terror in Europe and warned, at the midnight hour, that the Yom Kippur War was breaking out
By Mitch Ginsburg
The Mossad's Egyptian agent Ashraf Marwan, known as 'the Angel' with his handler in an undated photo released by the Mossad on September 7, 2023. (State Archives)
September 8, 2023, 9:22 am
Mossad reveals photo of ‘the Angel,’ Egyptian agent who warned of Yom Kippur war
Spy organization also releases transcript of Ashraf Marwan warning then-Mossad chief Zvi Zamir of a ’99 percent’ chance of war breaking out in 1973
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the state ceremony marking 45 years since the Yom Kippur War, held at the military cemetery at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl, on September 20, 2018. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
September 20, 2018, 4:58 pm
Netanyahu signals Israel won’t curb activities against Iran, despite Russia row
Speaking at memorial for soldiers who fell in 1973 Yom Kippur War, prime minister says leaders 45 years ago should have launched a preemptive strike
By ToI Staff
Reservist soldiers pose on the top of a truck during the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War in the Sinai Peninsula on October 6, 1973. (Avi Simhoni/Bamahane/Defense Ministry Archives)
September 17, 2018, 6:54 pm
‘Odds of war lower than low’: Papers highlight intel failures in Yom Kippur War
Documents declassified on 45th anniversary show Mossad Egyptian source suggested day before attack that Israel make public Arab states’ plans in order to deter them. He was ignored
By Judah Ari Gross
Top row: Former Mossad chiefs from L to R: Danny Yatom, Tamir Pardo, Zvi Zamir, Shabtai Shavit, Nahum Admoni and Efraim Halevy. Bottom row: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and President Reuven Rivlin host a candle lighting ceremony for of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah at the President's residence in Jerusalem on December 18, 2014. (Haim Zach / GPO)
March 28, 2018, 12:55 am
Ex-Mossad chief: Israel ‘dangerously sick’ under Netanyahu’s leadership
Five former spymasters say PM eroding country’s core values, decry ‘pervasive’ culture of corruption under his tenure
By ToI Staff
The inn at Sha'ar Hagai (CC-BY-3.0 Bukvoed/Wikipedia)
September 27, 2016, 1:00 am
Campaign heats up against naming 1948 memorial for slain minister
Independence War vets oppose naming inn at Jerusalem foothills for controversial Rehavam Ze‘evi, who was not part of battle for Jerusalem
By Sue Surkes
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (photo: Flash 90)
August 25, 2015, 10:10 am
Rabin disobeyed Ben-Gurion to meet Palmach veterans, papers reveal
Former prime minister among officers who attended 1949 fighters’ conference despite ban on their attendance, documents released Tuesday show
Mike Harari, left, and Mossad commander Yitzhak Hofi in the 70s in Panama (photo credit: courtesy Mike Harari)
April 4, 2014, 12:01 pm
A legendary Mossad commander steps from the shadows
The intensely driven Mike Harari, subject of a new book, received the agency’s top honor for operational work related to Iran’s nuclear program… at age 80
By Mitch Ginsburg
Prime Minister Golda Meir and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan meet with troops on the Golan Heights, on November 21, 1973. (Ron Frenkel/GPO)
November 1, 2013, 6:11 am
New Yom Kippur War testimony details the failures
Moshe Dayan, along with the heads of the Mossad and Military Intelligence, sidestepped responsibility, Agranat Commission minutes reveal
By Mitch Ginsburg
A wrecked Israeli tank during the early days of the Yom Kippur War (Wikimedia Commons)
October 6, 2013, 7:31 pm
40 years on, Yom Kippur War intel chiefs trade barbs
Eli Zeira and Zvi Zamir, respective heads of Military Intelligence and the Mossad in 1973, argue at Tel Aviv conference about Mideast war’s outbreak
By Mitch Ginsburg
King Hussein, far right, alongside Gamal Abdel Nasser, Yasser Arafat and Muammar Ghaddafi in 1970 (Photo credit: Palestinian Authorities via Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash 90)
September 12, 2013, 10:35 pm
Account of King Hussein’s 1973 war warning still deemed too harmful to release
PM Golda Meir’s testimony on the Yom Kippur War, as declassified Thursday after 40 years, omits all mention of her pivotal meeting in Tel Aviv with Jordan’s monarch
By Mitch Ginsburg
Prime minister Golda Meir and cabinet members visiting the southern command, October 29, 1973. (Photo Credit: GPO/Yehuda Tzion)
September 12, 2013, 4:00 pm
Golda Meir: ‘My heart was drawn to a preemptive strike, but I was scared’
Israel finally releases the late prime minister’s testimony before the Agranat Commission on her handling of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in which 2,500 Israelis lost their lives
By Mitch Ginsburg
Demonstrators in Tel Aviv express their rage at the Maariv newspaper’s impending closure and the possibility that many will not receive full compensation from the company. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
September 21, 2012, 5:43 pm
Goodnight Maariv, and good evening Netanyahu
One of Israel’s oldest papers may be nearing its demise, and the prime minister is forced to cut back on a free dinner
By Ilan Ben Zion
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