A, the S. S, and Mossad. The gatekeepers. DVD - Clausewitz and others have observed that war is politics by other means. One point being to underscore that a political solution is needed to prevent or e Show more Clausewitz and others have observed that war is politics by other means.
One point being to underscore that a political solution is needed to prevent or end wars. It's interesting watching the former Shin Bet high officials in this documentary, esp. Avraham Shalom head of Shin Bet, , talk about how Israel's success at "counter-terrorism" even before there was any "terrorism" enabled Israeli leaders to forego working up any actual political solutions and instead engage in endless war.
Shalom says the policy was and is all tactics and no strategy. My money would be on design as the major factor. This film would be a good companion to Hillel Cohen's "Good Arabs". Curiously, the film omits any reference to Baruch Goldstein who killed 29 Palestinians in the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in Hebron.
Show less. Good Arabs. The unit operates in all zones and in wartime, they join combat field headquarters in order to enable a faster flow of information. The corps also has an elite unit, Sayeret Matkal. It is considered the best combat unit in the Israeli army and one of the best special forces units in the world. It is a unit where professionalism is built into a way of life. The unit is not part of any regional command; it only responds to orders from the Chief of General Staff.
The Shin Bet, which is sometimes compared to the U. Its primary focus is on the Arab nations and pro-Arab organizations. According to published accounts, the Mossad has eight departments; the largest of these is the Collections Department, which is responsible for espionage operations and has offices abroad under both diplomatic and unofficial cover.
A clandestine operations branch, Metzada, executes delicate actions including assassinations and sabotage against foreign targets that are considered a significant threat to Israeli national security.
The Political Action and Liaison Department conducts political activities and relations with friendly foreign intelligence services and nations with which Israel has no diplomatic relations. Download our mobile app for on-the-go access to the Jewish Virtual Library. The main argument is that a structured and composed Intelligence organization is of utmost relevance in a country situated in a critical geopolitical area.
This article can thus be a contribution to the gap in the literature of the field, and the relevance is due to the fact that the Israeli Intelligence Community is going to be in the limelight even if still covered with a thick layer of secrecy. Mossad has always been the symbol of security for all the people living in the State of Israel and soon became the emblem of efficiency and invincibility, as if it represented the guarantee for the survival of a statehood surrounded by enemies.
Once unmasked the spy was given a life sentence; the Pollard affair had serious consequences and the bilateral relationship between the two States was seriously cracked. In , indeed, Israel burst on the worldwide scene fighting among the ruins of the British Mandate Jeffery, , making use of the lack of organization and coordination between the Palestine people and their supporters in the Middle East. The Intelligence activity has two goals: to forecast and prevent menaces from the enemy and the transmission of information and evaluations based on careful studies that can be the basis for the National policy Colonna Vilasi, When these two goals cannot be reached, the consequences can be catastrophic: an example is the war of October , during which the responsibility of the initial failure was given almost totally to the military information service; another one is the project that led up to the invasion of Lebanon in , that had great perspectives but it failed as soon as it was put into action.
After the Sadat historic visit to Jerusalem in and the following peace treaty with Egypt, the peace with Jordan and the loosening of the PLO armed conflict after the first Lebanon war , did not mean that the Israeli Intelligence ended its mission. Today, indeed, the military information section Aman of the IDF Israeli Defence Forces , Mossad and Shin Bet involve lots of people and spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year to defend Israel from the frequent assaults of the enemies, in order to find out their secrets and to infiltrate in their ranks.
Finally, the concrete need to unify every operation under the control of Mossad solved the problem, integrating the Intelligence in just one organization. Mossad is divided in different Departments, which perform different functions; the Department for Special Operations has a role of particular importance. It includes a series of operative sections in different part of the earth and each of them can count on a head official on the site who, in turn, has at his disposal some agents;.
It has a lot of freedom in actions and it proved the efficiency to guarantee the National Security. Once ended the cold war, however, the emergency seemed to be arrived to an end and the Mossad agents had to check and reshape their action strategies; in this way the recruitment of intellectuals and scholars was put first rather than action men highly qualified. In the international field a collaboration with the Egyptian and Palestinian Intelligence was implemented to find a new solution for the Middle East peace process Rodison, The most delicate phase consists in the recruitment and training of agents; a wrong evaluation can have catastrophic consequences and there is no room for errors.
The exceptional hardness of the training ensures that only a little part of the selected men end their path; the proportion is about 15 over The most important non-operative Department is the Research one Lakam , which has the task of recollecting and analyzing all the gathered information, drafting weekly and monthly reports.
Most of the agents assigned had contributed to the organization of the self-defence and the Jewish immigration from the freed Europe. Isser Harel, memorable head of the Shin Bet, had always restated the need of a security Agency composed by civil agents, in order to guarantee the management of the budget, offices and staff without submitting them to the military system.
At the beginning, it was affiliated to the Ministry of Defence but after only a year from the foundation it became an independent organization accountable of its actions only to the Prime Minister; the obligation is still valid and it allowed the Shin Bet to expand the freedom of action.
At the beginning the Agency was hidden and became totally operative only from , when Amos Manor assumed the command; he made his mark and reputation as head of the soviet bloc division for the counter-intelligence. In the Arabic population of Israel counted on The Shabak was operative mainly in the Jewish settlements and in the territories managed by the Palestinians; for this reason it has always been considered an organization with an impeccable efficiency but on November 15, the reputation began to crack when Ygal Amir, a right-wing radical, killed the Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
This division was reorganised and strengthened during the Intifada, when special troops known as HENZA operated in order to monitor the insurrection areas. One senior official told Haaretz that intelligence operations now require more resources than before, adding that the payback on the investment greatly outweighs what is spent. Most of the growth in personnel at the two agencies has been for staff dealing with technology. The Shin Bet and Mossad have to compete for staff with major civilian high-tech companies, and offer them high salaries.
Sources also acknowledge that there might be major duplication in the technology related work of the Israeli army, the Shin Bet and the Mossad. That's because the agencies work separately under a veil of secrecy and there is no entity coordinating their activities with an eye to combining operations.
Job postings for the Shin Bet and Mossad on the internet reflect the recruiting efforts that they are making to find cyber-technology experts.
The Shin Bet has just launched a staff recruitment drive in the field, while the Mossad postings state, for example, that it is looking for a cyber-related development engineer, for someone with responsibility for defensive cyber-infrastructure and for college students to work in cyber-related operations. The agencies also compete with one another on cellular technology. Intelligence agencies in Western countries are in a race to crack the encoding of a range of technology, including smartphones.
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