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03-370 (1) Front 3/18/04 12:51 PM Page ii 06-102 (01) FM.qxd 3/24/06 7:22 AM Page i HISTORICALDICTIONARIES OFINTELLIGENCE AND COUNTERINTELLIGENCE SERIES Jon Woronoff, Series Editor 1. British Intelligence, by Nigel West, 2005. 2. United States Intelligence, by Michael A. Turner, 2006. 3. Israeli Intelligence, by Ephraim Kahana, 2006. 06-102 (01) FM.qxd 3/24/06 7:22 AM Page ii 06-102 (01) FM.qxd 3/24/06 7:22 AM Page iii Historical Dictionary of Israeli Intelligence Ephraim Kahana Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, No. 3 The Scarecrow Press, Inc. Lanham, Maryland • Toronto • Oxford 2006 06-102 (01) FM.qxd 3/24/06 7:22 AM Page iv SCARECROWPRESS, INC. Published in the United States of America by Scarecrow Press, Inc. Awholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 www.scarecrowpress.com PO Box 317 Oxford OX2 9RU, UK Copyright ©2006 by Ephraim Kahana All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kahana, Ephraim. Historical dictionary of Israeli intelligence / Ephraim Kahana. p. cm. — (Historical dictionaries of intelligence and counterintelligence ; no. 3) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-5581-6 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-8108-5581-X (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Intelligence service—Israel—History—Dictionaries. 2. Military intelligence—Israel—History—Dictionaries. I. Title. II. Series. UB251.I75K34 2006 327.125694003—dc22 2005032789 ∞™ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992. Manufactured in the United States of America. 06-102 (01) FM.qxd 3/24/06 7:22 AM Page v To Nili, Orit, Eran, Nir, Ori, Shir, and Zvi Nili my wife Orit my daughter Eran my son in law Nir my son Ori my grandson Shir my grandaughter Zvi my brother 06-102 (01) FM.qxd 3/24/06 7:22 AM Page vi 06-102 (01) FM.qxd 3/24/06 7:22 AM Page vii Contents Editor’s Foreword Jon Woronoff ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Acronyms and Abbreviations xv Chronology xix Introduction xxxix THE DICTIONARY 1 Appendixes A Directors of the Israeli Intelligence Organizations 333 B Israeli Intelligence Community Structure 335 C Directorate of Military Intelligence 337 D Israeli Security Agency (ISA) 339 E Mossad: Israel Secret Intelligence Service 341 Glossary 343 Bibliography 347 About the Author 369 vii 06-102 (01) FM.qxd 3/24/06 7:22 AM Page viii