L'attuale capo di stato maggiore generale è il generale Gadi Eizenkot. On 1 April 1978, 12 Syrian military and secret service personnel were killed by a booby trapped sophisticated Israeli listening device planted on the main telephone cable between Damascus and Jordan. The German freighter "Scheersberg A" disappeared on its way from Antwerp to Genoa along with its cargo of 200 tons of yellowcake, after supposedly being transferred to an Israeli ship. [31], In the late 1990s, after Mossad was tipped off to the presence of two Iranian agents in Johannesburg on a mission to procure advanced weapons systems from Denel, a Mossad agent was deployed, and met up with a local Jewish contact. [71], The alleged killing of Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil, a senior member of the military wing of Hamas, in an automobile booby trap in September 2004 in Damascus. "[33][34] Mossad abandoned a second operation, intended to capture Josef Mengele. Four agents were freed, but the fifth was tried, found guilty, sentenced to one year in prison, and following his release was banned from entering Switzerland for five years.[122]. È morto in Israele a 71 anni Meir Dagan, capo storico del Mossad. He gave his handlers a complete plan of the Syrian defenses on the Golan Heights, the Syrian Armed Forces order of battle, and a complete list of the Syrian military's weapons inventory. In February 1998, five Mossad agents were caught wiretapping the home of a Hezbollah agent in a Bern suburb. French police believe that a team of assassins followed Atef Bseiso from Berlin, where that first team connected with another team to close in on him in front of a Left Bank hotel, where he received three head-shots at point blank range. [2], The largest department of Mossad is Collections, tasked with many aspects of conducting espionage overseas. Modi was on a state visit to the United Kingdom and was scheduled to attend the 2015 G-20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey. Upon arrival in Israel, after it was discovered that he was dead, he was given a burial at sea, and the case remained highly classified for decades. Tutti e due possono essere lanciati con un brevissimo tempo di reazione grazie alla capacità di lancio e indirizzamento comandata direttamente dal visore nel casco di volo del pilota. .mw-parser-output .chiarimento{background:#ffeaea;color:#444444}.mw-parser-output .chiarimento-apice{color:red}[senza fonte]. [3] The Political Action and Liaison Department is responsible for working with allied foreign intelligence services, and nations that have no normal diplomatic relations with Israel. Al 2008, l' Heyl Ha'Avir disponevae su oltre 300 aerei da combattimento, più di 40 aerei da trasporto e oltre 300 elicotteri, tra cui quelli d'assalto, Apache ). Two others, an Israeli, Ze'ev Barkan, and a New Zealander, David Reznick, are believed to have been the third and fourth men involved in the passport affair but they both managed to leave New Zealand before being apprehended. Negli ultimi anni Israele ha sperimentato il sistema antibalistico "Hetz" ("freccia"), secondo molti analisti superiore al MIM-104 Patriot, atto a difendersi contro i missili balistici SRBM del tipo SS-1 Scud, e delle versioni più evolute di questi tipi di missile (come i missili iraniani Fateh-110, Ghadr-110, Shahab-3, e altri ancora). Chi lo conosce bene dice che la storia brutale di quest’ex ufficiale dell’esercito (che Ariel Sharon aveva soprannominato “The Cruel”) è pari al suo carattere mite e introverso. Israel was also concerned that Pakistani army officers were training Libyans and Iranians in handling Chinese and North Korean military equipment. [61], The killing of Dr. [113][114], In 1986, Mossad used an undercover agent to lure Mordechai Vanunu from the United Kingdom to Italy in a honey trap style operation where he was abducted and returned to Israel where he was tried and found guilty of treason because of his role in exposing Israel's nuclear programme. The agents' bogus passports included six British passports, cloned from those of real British nationals resident in Israel and suspected by Dubai, five Irish passports, apparently forged from those of living individuals,[83] forged Australian passports that raised fears of reprisal against innocent victims of identity theft,[84] a genuine German passport and a false French passport. [71], The alleged killing of Muhammad Suleiman, head of Syria's nuclear program, in 2008. Fondate nel 1948 «per difendere l'esistenza, l'integrità territoriale e la sovranità dello Stato di Israele» e «proteggere gli abitanti di Israele e combattere ogni forma di terrorismo che minacci la vita quotidiana», le forze armate israeliane organizzarono, sostituirono e fusero tra loro le varie organizzazioni armate come la Haganah e la sua sezione operativa chiamata Palmach, di cui facevano parte anche ex-membri della Brigata ebraica (che combatté sotto bandiera britannica durante la seconda guerra mondiale), Etzel (o Irgun) e Lehi, a cui sino alla fine della guerra di indipendenza del 1948, fu concessa una vigilata libertà d'azione. New Zealand cancelled several other passports believed to have been obtained by Israeli agents. Employees in the Collections Department operate under a variety of covers, including diplomatic and unofficial. Oggi voglio analizzare le forze speciali e i commando che fanno capo all’Idf (Israel Defence Forces). Sotto Dagan, il Mossad ha fatto impallidire servizi segreti come la Cia, lo MI6 inglese, il tedesco Bnd e il francese Dgse. Mossad was formed on December 13, 1949, as the Central Institute for Coordination at the recommendation of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to Reuven Shiloah. [65], Mossad was suspected of establishing a large spy network in Lebanon, recruited from Druze, Christian, and Sunni Muslim communities, and officials in the Lebanese government, to spy on Hezbollah and its Iranian Revolutionary Guard advisors. The door to his room was reported to have been locked from the inside. Ostrovsky, Victor; Hoy, Claire (eds.). Essi sono di tipo "fire and forget", ma anche dotati di circuiti ottici per consentire, nel caso di cambiamento del bersaglio, di essere guidati sull'obiettivo alternativo. Some have allegedly been active since the 1982 Lebanon War. [28][29], For Operation Entebbe in 1976, Mossad provided intelligence regarding Entebbe International Airport[30] and extensively interviewed hostages who had been released. Mossad is responsible for intelligence collection, covert operations, and counter-terrorism. [73], On July 25, 2007, the al-Safir chemical weapons depot exploded, killing 15 Syrian personnel as well as 10 Iranian engineers. Probabilmente agenti del Mossad si sono già infiltrati in questo progetto e tentano di destabilizzarlo, mentre agenzie di propaganda dell'esercito israeliano si stanno attrrezzando per opporvi resistenza. [44] This has been denied by Israeli spokesman Mark Regev. Operation Sphinx[53] – Between 1978 and 1981, obtained highly sensitive information about Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor by recruiting an Iraqi nuclear scientist in France. When young Israeli tourists began visiting the Kashmir valley in the early 1990s, Pakistan suspected they were disguised Israeli army officers there to help Indian security forces with anti-terrorism operations. In a joint operation with U.S. intelligence, the agent was kept under surveillance in hopes that he would betray more Hezbollah operatives, but was eventually arrested. Ostrovsky, Victor; Hoy, Claire (1991). India Today cites "RAW insiders" as saying that RAW agents hid a Mossad agent holding an Argentine passport and exchanged intelligence and expertise in operations, including negotiations for the release of an Israeli tourist by the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front militants in June 1991. [21], In September 1956, Mossad established a secretive network in Morocco to smuggle Moroccan Jews to Israel after a ban on immigration to Israel was imposed. [45], Iranian Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi has accused Mossad of assassination plots and killings of Iranian physicists in 2010. [107], Mossad discovered that Hezbollah had recruited a German national named Steven Smyrek, and that he was travelling to Israel. [95], Mossad is alleged to be responsible for the killing of Canadian engineer and ballistics expert Gerald Bull on March 22, 1990. All I can say is that everything was done with government approval. Pressure from the Kashmiri Muslim diaspora in the United States led to his release. According to secret CIA and US State Department documents discovered by the Iranian students who took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979: In Switzerland the Israelis have an Embassy in Bern and a Consulate-General in Zürich which provide cover for Collection Department officers involved in unilateral operations. According to the book Striking Back, published by Aharon Klein in 2006, Haddad was eliminated by Mossad, which had sent the chocolate-loving Haddad Belgian chocolates coated with a slow-acting and undetectable poison which caused him to die several months later. L'IDF consta anche di dipartimenti di ricerca e sviluppo interni qualitativamente elevati e ha acquisito molte tecnologie da industrie di sicurezza israeliane. Emirati police say they have fingerprint and DNA evidence of some of the attackers, as well as retinal scans of 11 suspects recorded at Dubai airport. Durante un'esercitazione "Red flag" tenutasi nella Nellis Air Force Base, i piloti israeliani sono riusciti a battere gli omologhi dell'aviazione della United States Navy nel 90% dei duelli aerei simulati sul deserto del Nevada. Mossad (/məˈsæd/; Hebrew: הַמּוֹסָד‎, IPA: [ha moˈsad]; Arabic: الموساد‎, al-Mōsād, IPA: [almoːˈsaːd]; lit. These visits, however, are usually arranged through the Political Action and Liaison regional controller at the Embassy in Paris directly with the Swiss and not through the officials in the Israeli Embassy in Bern, although the latter are kept informed. [49] Meir Dagan, who served as Director of Mossad from 2002 until 2009, while not taking credit for the assassinations, praised them in an interview with a journalist, saying "the removal of important brains" from the Iranian nuclear project had achieved so-called "white defections," frightening other Iranian nuclear scientists into requesting that they be transferred to civilian projects. [115][117][118], Israel provided weapons to the Serbs during the Bosnian War, possibly due to the pro-Serbian bias of the government of the time,[119] or possibly in exchange for the immigration of the Sarajevo Jewish community to Israel. Aziende produttrici dei migliori SW antiterrorismo ed anti cyber-crime; professionisti ed istituzioni vicini all’esercito israeliano e al Mossad, specializzati sulle soluzioni innovative di cyber-security per grandi aziende, PMI e governi.. Six Mossad agents were arrested, and the incident came to be known as the Lillehammer affair. ", INSS Occasional Paper 59, USAF Institute for National Security Studies, USAF Academy, Colorado, July 2005, p. 15. Their purpose might not have been to kill the receiver. Not much is known about this mysterious unit, details of which are some of the most closely guarded secrets in the Israeli intelligence community." [105], The sending of letter bombs during the Operation Wrath of God campaign. La storia la racconta oggi Il Fatto Quotidiano in un articolo a firma di Antonio Massari e Davide Vecchi: un testimone ha raccontato di un complotto nei confronti di Matteo Renzi con la diffusione di una falsa accusa: “Il futuro premier è stato finanziato dal servizio segreto israeliano del Mossad”. [88], India Today reported that the two flats were RAW safe houses used as operational fronts for Mossad agents and housed Mossad's station chief between 1989 and 1992. It is one of the main entities in the Israeli Intelligence Community, along with Aman (military intelligence) and Shin Bet (internal security). [85][86] Dubai's police chief has said "I am now completely sure that it was Mossad," adding: "I have presented the (Dubai) prosecutor with a request for the arrest of (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu and the head of Mossad," for the murder. Iraq and Iran are also candidates for suspicion. The reactor itself was subsequently destroyed by an Israeli air strike in 1981. [67], Caesarea tried for many years to assassinate Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat, a job later tasked by Israel's Minister of Defense Ariel Sharon to a military special ops task force code named "Salt Fish," later renamed "Operation Goldfish," specially created for the job of assassinating Arafat,[68] with Ronan Bergman suggesting that Israel used radiation poisoning to kill Yasser Arafat.[69]. Mossad helped establish contact with Refuseniks in the USSR, and helped them acquire Jewish religious items, banned by the Soviet government, in addition to passing communications into and out of the USSR. [112], The killing of Wael Zwaiter, thought to be a member of Black September. La maggior parte dei soldati era infatti di basso rango, mentre le “spie” erano interessate a ottenere informazioni sulle manovre e gli armamenti dell’esercito israeliano intorno … [87], A Rediff story in 2003 revealed that Mossad had clandestine links with the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), India's external intelligence agency. [19][20], The sayanim concept was created by Meir Amit in the 1960s. In book 4 of Mark Greaney's Gray Man series, Libel, Tamir. [104], Operation Plumbat (1968) was an operation by Lekem-Mossad to further Israel's nuclear program. The motto was later changed to another Proverbs passage: be-'éyn tachbūlōt yippol `ām; ū-teshū`āh be-rov yō'éts (Hebrew: באין תחבולות יפול עם, ותשועה ברוב יועץ‎, Proverbs 11:14). Israele ha anche una capacità indipendente di lanciare satelliti da ricognizione in orbita (una capacità posseduta altresì da Russia, Stati Uniti d'America, Regno Unito, Italia, Francia, Germania, Cina, India e Giappone), prodotti dalle industrie di sicurezza dello stesso Stato. Al 2008, l'Heyl Ha'Avir disponevae su oltre 300 aerei da combattimento, più di 40 aerei da trasporto e oltre 300 elicotteri, tra cui quelli d'assalto, Apache). La difesa antiaerea comprende un centinaio di batterie missilistiche a lunga e media gittata; lHeil HaYam HaYisraeli possiede 3 sottomarini, 17 navi da combattimento e 33 pattugliatori. [39][40], Prior to the Iranian Revolution of 1978–79, SAVAK (Organization of National Security and Information), the Iranian secret police and intelligence service was created under the guidance of United States and Israeli intelligence officers in 1957. Il Mossad non punta solamente a leader e attivisti palestinesi, ma anche a siriani, libanesi, iraniani ed europei. The house was empty when later searched, but there was suspicion by Irish authorities it had been used as a Mossad safe house in the past. [77], Mossad is suspected of killing Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior Hamas military commander, in January 2010 at Dubai, United Arab Emirates. L'esercito israeliano rappresentato figurativamente da Adi Nes come ne L'ultima cena di Leonardo da Vinci. Probabilmente sono stati proprio membri di Kidon a uccidere al-Batsh a Kuala Lumpur, secondo alcune fonti di al Jazeera. It is described by Yaakov Katz as "an elite group of expert assassins who operate under the Caesarea branch of the espionage organization. Le forze di difesa israeliane (in ebraico: צבא ההגנה לישראל‎? [47] The base is believed to store long-range missiles, including the Shahab-3, and also has hangars. Dal negozio Rachaels101Creations ... Israeliano Esercito Israeliano T-shirt e maschera faccia LeDF (Forza di Difesa Israeliana) T-shirt nera e maschera faccia le corrispondenti MONIKUNIQUE555. Gli israeliani storicamente hanno fatto poco affidamento sui missili anticarro, ma, soprattutto dopo l'esperienza con i TOW statunitensi hanno cambiato decisamente idea; da qualche anno hanno prodotti autoctoni da offrire sul mercato internazionale. [59][60], Providing intelligence for the killing of Abbas al-Musawi, secretary general of Hezbollah, in Beirut in 1992.