- Meir Dagan
Meir Dagan is an Israeli military figure and current Director of the Mossad. Born Meir Huberman in the Soviet Union in 1945, Dagan is the son of Holocaust survivors. Dagan's family immigrated to Israel in 1950 and settled in Bat Yam, a coastal city south of Tel Aviv. In 1963 Dagan enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and served in the paratrooper brigade. In the 1967 Six Day War he commanded a company which fought in Sinai, …
- Adolf Eichmann
Otto Adolf Eichmann was a high-ranking Nazi and SS Obersturmbannführer (equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel). Due to his organizational talents and ideological reliability, he was charged by Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich with the task of facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation to ghettos and extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.
- Mordechai Vanunu
The traitor "' (born Marrakech, Morocco, October 13 1954), also known by his baptismal name John Crossman"', is an Israeli former nuclear technician who revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. He was subsequently abducted in Rome by Israeli Mossad agents and smuggled to Israel, where he was tried in secret and convicted of treason.
- Victor Ostrovsky
Victor Ostrovsky is a Canadian-born, Israel-raised former Mossad officer and author of 2 non fiction books on Mossad and two fictional spy novels. Victor Ostrovsky grew up in Israel and joined the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) just before turning eighteen. During his military service he married Bella his childhood sweetheart.
- Gordon Thomas
Gordon Thomas is a Welsh author who has written fifty-three books. The total sales of his works exceed 45 million copies. Thomas lives in Ireland, with his wife, an interior designer. His four children work in various sections of the entertainment industry. His books of best-selling David Morton novels are being filmed by IAC International as a 22-hour television series to be screened worldwide in 2003.
- Ephraim Halevy
Ephraim Halevy is an Israeli lawyer and intelligence expert. He was the ninth director of Mossad and the 2nd head of the Israeli National Security Council. Halevy was born in the United Kingdom to an established Orthodox Jewish family. He immigrated to Israel in 1948. He graduated (with commendation) as a certified lawyer. Between 1957-1961 he was the editor of the journal "Survery" (סקירה), published by the Chief Education Officer.
- Danny Yatom
Danny Yatom also Dani Yatom was the Director of the Mossad from 1996 to 1998. He also served as deputy commander of Sayeret Matkal and Security Advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Currently Yatom is a member of the Knesset for the Labor-Meimad party.
- Shabtai Shavit
Shabtai Shavit was the Director General of the Mossad from 1989 to 1996. Shavit first joined the Israel Defense Forces, where he served in the Sayeret Matkal and from 1958 to 1959 he was the Military Governor of the Southern Command. He then joined the Mossad in 1964, where he worked his way up to his appointment as Director. After retiring from the Mossad he spent five years as CEO of Maccabi Health Services Group.
- Robert Maxwell
Ian Robert Maxwell MC (June 10, 1923 – November 5, 1991) was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and formerly Member of Parliament (MP), who rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire.
- George Jonas
George Jonas is a Hungarian-Canadian poet-born and raised in Budapest and educated at the Hungarian Liberal Arts Faculty-who immigrated to Canada in 1956, settling in Toronto. Poet, novelist, playwright, director of TV drama, producer, editor and journalist, his poetic voice has been heard since the 60s.
- Cote de Pablo
Cote de Pablo (born María José de Pablo on November 12 1979) is a stage and television actress. De Pablo was born in Santiago, Chile, but was raised in Miami, Florida where she attended Arvida Middle School and then the New World School Of Arts. In 1994, she co-hosted the show called "Control", under her birth name María José de Pablo, along with former Entertainment Tonight host Carlos Ponce.
- Rafi Eitan
Rafael ('Rafi') Eitan (born November 23, 1926) is the leader of the pensioners' party Gil, which has won an unexpected large number of seats in the Israeli legislative election of 2006. In 1960, he was in charge of the Mossad operation that lead to the capture of Adolf Eichmann. He served as an advisor on terrorism to Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and in 1981 he was appointed to head the Bureau of Scientific Relations, then an intelligence entity on par with Mossad, …
- Barry Chamish
Barry Chamish (born Winnipeg, 1952) is a Canadian-Israeli religious Zionist activist and writer, best known as a conspiracy theorist. He studied at the University of Manitoba and later immigrated to Israel. In 1975 he attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Recently he left Israel and relocated to Vancouver, Canada, while lecturing to religious and non-religious groups in Canada and the US. He now resides in St. Augustine, Florida, after marrying his second wife.
- Michael Collins Piper
Michael Collins Piper is a political writer for the "American Free Press" and talk radio host living in Washington D.C.. He is the author of books such as "The High Priests of War", in which he discusses the Neoconservatives in the Bush administration, and "Final Judgment" where he describes his theory that the Israeli Mossad was responsible for the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy.
- Uzi Arad
Uzi Arad is the former Director of Intelligence for the Mossad and is currently a professor at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. He received a Ph.D. and M.A. at Princeton University, and is the author of a number of books on the Middle East. He has also served as a foreign policy advisor to former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. At Herzliya, Arad founded the Institute for Policy and Strategy.
- Yuval Diskin
Yuval Diskin is the 12th and current Director of Shabak. In the Israel Defense Forces, Diskin served as deputy company commander of Sayeret Shaked (the command Sayeret of the Israeli Southern Command). In 1978, he was recruited to the Shabak and served as area coordinator for the Nablus district. During the 1982 Lebanon War, Diskin operated in Beirut and Sidon. In 1984, he became the coordinator of Nablus District, and by 1989, also the Jenin and Tulkarm districts.
- Isser Harel
Isser Harel (1912 - 18 February, 2003) was spymaster of the intelligence and the security services of Israel and the Director of the Mossad (1952 - 1963).
- Meir Amit
Meir Amit (born 17 March 1921) was the Director of the Mossad from 1963 to 1968. Born in Palestine during the British mandate, he fought for the Haganah during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. In the late 1950s Amit studied in the United States, earning a business degree from Columbia Business School. After returning to Israel, Amit entered the Israeli intelligence community, first as a Major General at the head of IDF Intelligence in 1961, and then as Mossad Director in 1963.
- Eli Cohen
Eli Cohen was a celebrated Israeli spy, and is recognized as one of the most successful spies of modern times. Born in Egypt, Cohen contributed to pro-Israeli activities in Egypt during the 1950s, but the most important part of his career began when he was recruited into Israeli military intelligence in 1960. He was given a false identity as a Syrian Arab who was returning to Syria after living in Argentina. To establish his cover, Cohen moved to Argentina in 1961.
- Zvi Zamir
Zvi Zamir born Zvicka Zarzevsky was a Major General in the Israel Defense Forces and the Director of the Mossad from 1968 to 1974. Born in Poland, Zamir immigrated with his family to the then British Mandate of Palestine when only seven months old. At the age of 18 Zamir began his military career, first as a soldier in the Haganah's Palmach, a unit that included future Israeli leaders among the likes of Moshe Dayan and Yitzhak Rabin.
- Manucher Ghorbanifar
Manucher Ghorbanifar (nickname Gorba) is a well known expatriate Iranian arms dealer. He is best known as a middleman in the Iran-Contra Affair during the Ronald Reagan presidency. He is suspected to be a double agent for Mossad.
- Ashraf Marwan
Ashraf Marwan (b. 1945) was the husband of Mona Gamal Abdel Nasser, the daughter of the former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser. Marwan died on 27 June 2007 after falling off a window of his flat on the fifth floor in London. The Body was repatriated to Egypt on June 30th, 2007. Burial ceremony is scheduled for July 1st 2007 in Cairo. Dr. Ashraf Marwan, who had previously been accused of being a senior Mossad agent operating in Egypt prior to the Yom Kippur War, …
- Nihad Awad
Nihad Awad is the Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington D.C.-based American Muslim political and civil rights group. After studying civil engineering at the University of Minnesota in the 1990s, he worked at the University of Minnesota Medical Center. After the Gulf war, he was Public Relations Director for the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), described by U.S. government officials as a Hamas front organization.
- Peter Hounam
Peter Hounam (born 1944) is a British journalist who has worked for "Sunday Times", "The Mirror", the "London Evening Standard", and BBC Television, as well as having published several books: *"Secret Cult", with Andrew Hogg, about the School of Economic Science in London, ISBN 0-85648-837-2 *"The Mini-Nuke Conspiracy: How Mandela Inherited a Nuclear Nightmare" about nuclear weapons in South Africa, …
- Naeim Giladi
Naeim Giladi was born in Iraq as Naeim Khalaschi in 1929 to an Iraqi Jewish family and later lived in Israel and the United States. He is an Anti-Zionist, and author of an autobiographical article and historical analysis entitled "The Jews of Iraq". The article later formed the basis for his originally self-published book "Ben Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah and the Mossad Eliminated Jews".
- Nahum Admoni
Nahum Admoni (born 1929) was the Director of the Mossad from 1982 to 1989. Born in Jerusalem to Polish immigrants, he fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War in the SHAI, the Haganah intelligence branch, and later in the newly created Israeli Defense Force Intelligence. After the war he went to the United States and studied at the University of California, Berkeley, returning to Israel in 1954.
- Ghassan Kanafani
Ghassan Kanafani (غسان كنفاني, born April 9, 1936 in Akko, Palestine - died July 8, 1972 in Beirut, Lebanon) was a Palestinian writer and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He was assassinated by car bomb in Beirut, for which the Mossad later claimed responsibility
- Ahmed Bouchiki
Ahmed Bouchiki (April 13, 1943 - July 21, 1973), an Algerian-born Moroccan citizen working as a waiter in Lillehammer, Norway, was killed by Israeli agents of the Mossad intelligence agency on July 21 1973, in what is known as the Lillehammer affair. He was shot in front of his pregnant Norwegian wife as they returned from a movie. Six Israelis were arrested for the assassination. Bouchiki had been mistakenly identified by the Mossad as Ali Hassan Salameh, …
- Cheryl Bentov
Cheryl Ben Tov, born Cheryl Hanin in 1960, was an Israeli Mossad agent who became well-known in 1986 when, under the name "Cindy", she persuaded former Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu to go with her to Rome, where he was captured, drugged, and transported to Israel. Vanunu faced a secret trial and was sentenced to 18 years in prison, spending nearly 12 of them in solitary confinement.
- Peter Malkin
Peter Zvi Malkin, (May 27 1927-March 1 2005), was an Israeli secret agent, and member of the Mossad intelligence agency. Born Zvi Malchin in Zolkiewka, Poland. In 1936, his family emigrated to Palestine to escape the rising tide of anti-Semitism; his sister, Fruma, and her three children who remained behind with 150 other relatives, died in the Holocaust. At the age of twelve, Malkin was recruited into the Palestine Jewish underground.
- Bassam Abu Sharif
Bassam Abu Sharif (born 1946) is a former senior adviser to the late Yasser Arafat and press officer of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Formerly a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Abu Sharif was dubbed the "face of terror" by Time Magazine for his role in the Dawson's Field hijackings in 1970, when the PFLP hijacked Pan Am, Swissair, …
- Reuven Shiloah
Reuven Shiloah (December 1909-1959) was the first Director of the Mossad from 1951 to 1952. Born in Ottoman ruled Jerusalem as Reuven Zaslanski, he would later shorten his last name to Zaslani and use the codeword Shiloah. Living in an Orthodox Jewish family and with a rabbi for a father, Shiloah abandoned the religious life of his family at an early age. In the mid-1930s he met Betty Borden of New York and the two were married in 1936.
- Michael Harari
Michael "Mike" Harari (born 1927) was a member of the Mossad who directed the failed Lillehammer affair, and later became an arms-dealer and high-level advisor to General Manuel Noriega of Panama. Harari began his intelligence work facilitating illegal Jewish immigration to Israel after World War II. He then spent time in the army and Shin Bet before being recruited by the Mossad in the 1960s. During his time in the Mossad he ran agents in Europe, …
- Fathi Shaqaqi
Fathi Shaqaqi, alternatively spelled Fathi Shqaqi or Fathi Shiqaqi was the Palestinian who founded and led the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organisation and the initiator of suicide bombings. He formed along with Sheik Odeh (aka Abd Al Aziz Awda) the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip during the 1970s, initially as a branch of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
- Yitzhak Hofi
Yitzhak Hofi was the director of Mossad from 1974 to 1982. Hofi was born in Tel Aviv. He joined the Haganah in 1944 and commanded a company in the Arab-Israeli War in 1948. He continued to serve in the Israeli Defense Forces in a variety of command, staff and training posts. He headed the Northern Command of the IDF during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. He was Acting Chief of Staff for a brief period in 1974, …
- Munir Redfa
Munir Redfa (1934 - 2000) was an Iraqi Fighter Pilot, of Iraqi-Assyrian origin who defected to Israel in 1966 by flying a MiG 21 belonging to the Iraqi Air Force to Israel. In what is considered one of the Mossad's most successful operations, Redfa's entire extended family was smuggled safely out of Iraq to Israel. The hijacked MiG fighter was later loaned to the United States for testing and intelligence analysis.
- Marcus Klingberg
Abraham Marcus Klingberg was born in 1918 and is the highest ranking Soviet spy ever caught in Israel. Together with Mordechai Vanunu, the case of Klingberg is regarded as the most destructive spy scandal of the history of the State of Israel. At the beginning of World War II, fearing the Nazis, Klingberg escaped from Poland to the USSR. There, he finished his medical studies.
- Craig Winn
Craig Winn is an American author and former businessman. He has self-published six books, including several on terrorism and Islam. His latest book is called "Yada Yahweh". Each of his books have been made available for free on the internet. After the events of September 11th, Winn began a research project with colleague Kevin Power to "uncover the roots of terrorism". They visited 120 countries and interviewed members of al-Qaeda, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah, …
- Maurice Cohen
Maurice Cohen (1927-2006) was a cryptographer for the Mossad. His older brother was the celebrated Israeli spy Eli Cohen. He discovered his brother's identity through his decryption work. Born in Egypt to Syrian parents and living in Ramat Gan, Maurice spent his life commemorating his brother's legacy and appealing to bring back Eli Cohen's bones to burial in Israel which Syria refuses to do. He died in December, 2006.
- Moshe Marzouk
Moshe Marzouk (or Musa Lieto Marzuk, ; born 20 December, 1926-31 January, 1955) was an Egyptian Jewish spy, labelled as a terrorist and hanged by Egypt in 1954 for his part in an Israeli false flag operation. Marzouk was born in Cairo to a Karaite family who had immigrated from Tunisia in the early 20th century, though they retained French citizenship. While working as a surgeon at the Jewish Hospital in Cairo in the early 1950s, he was recruited as a spy by the Mossad, …