Two days after Iran attacked Israel with more than 180 ballistic missiles, the head of Iran’s powerful Quds Force, Ismail Kani, is missing. Iran is not capable of establishing contact with him. According to the Iranian official, he was in the Dahiya area of Beirut. In the past, Israel targeted the potential successor of Hezbollah, Hashim Safiuddin, in a strike. However, the Iranian official says that Ismail did not meet Safiuddin. On the other hand, Israel did not make any clear comment on the news that Ismail Kani was killed in the Beirut attack. It is also said that Mossad has captured or killed him.
It should be remembered that Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad’s new activity of pager bomb, action, the destruction of Hezbollah fighters has become a topic of discussion in the world. This action has raised a new challenge regarding security. After the pager bomb incident, there is also a discussion that Israel can make such explosions through mobile phones? Well, the Pager bombings have once again sparked public interest in the working methods of the Mossad.
Ronan Bergman’s book Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations can be very helpful in understanding the Israeli intelligence agency. This book is considered authentic. It is also written in a beautiful style. Also, the book provides interesting insights into the intelligence agency’s operations against state and non-state actors since its inception in 1949.
Israeli investigative journalist Ronen Bergman has not only covered the murders carried out by the Mossad, but has also covered other activities of the intelligence agency. It also tells the story of Mossad spy Eli Cohen. He had managed to make a place in the political circles of Syria, another hostile country of Israel. But he was later captured and hanged in the central square of Damascus.
Ronan Bergman has given detailed information about this whole incident in his book. Not only this, he has also told about the murders done by Mossad. This gives the readers an idea of the agency’s working style as well as why it acted. Ronan Bergman also writes about the 1979 Mossad assassination of Ali Salameh in the book. Ali was the director of the Palestine Liberation Organization
Ronan Bergman writes that at first the Mossad considered killing Ali by poisoning his toothpaste or aftershave, but then changed plans. When Ali took to the streets of Beirut, the Mossad killed him with an explosion. Many of Ali’s bodyguards were also killed in this Mossad attack.
No less interesting is the trap that Israeli intelligence has laid to kill Ali. The intelligence agency had given the responsibility of this operation to a female agent. The agent’s name was Erica Chambers. She lived in England. She was recruited by the Mossad in 1973, when she came to Israel from England to study for a master’s in hydrology.
