Nitza Spiro Hebrew Studies

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Inside the Mossad

A lecture with Professor Ephraim Kahana

For Israel – more so than for any other state – an effective Intelligence Community has been a matter of life and death. Over the past half-century or so, Israel has created and refined what is broadly regarded as one of the best intelligence networks in the world. It has repeatedly undone efforts by hostile Arab neighbours to defeat it in war, foiled countless terrorist attacks, contributed to military preparedness and armament production, and helped millions of Jews to reach the Promised Land. Unfortunately, it has also committed some terrible mistakes and made blunders it can ill afford. The Mossad is responsible for intelligence gathering and operations in foreign countries. Professor Kahana will discuss its organisation, failures and successes.

Ephraim Kahana chairs the Political Science Department and the National Security Program in the Department of Political Science at the Western Galilee College. He is the author of Historical Dictionary of Israeli Intelligence (Scarecrow Press, 2006), Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Intelligence (Scarecrow Press, 2009), Ashraf Marwan, Israel's Most Valuable Spy: How the Mossad Recruited Nasser's Own Son-in-Law (Edwin Mellen Press, 2010) and Israel’s Shadow War Against the Iranian Nuke (XLIBRIS, 2014).