They infiltrated governments to obtain sensitive information ... and carried out assassinations

"Mossad Women" is an Israeli book that reveals the role of women in espionage operations

• Isabella Pedro..I got the plan to build the High Dam in Egypt before it was built in the 1960s.

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• Silvia Raphael in Syria with a group of Bedouins while she is conducting an espionage operation.

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A new Israeli book, published in Hebrew last week, and to be published in English next April, revealed the roles that the agents of the Israeli intelligence service (Mossad) have played in recent decades in various regions around the world.

The book reveals private secrets that were published for the first time about specific operations carried out by women in these operations, according to a report published by the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, last week.

The book, titled “Mossad Amazons,” by Israeli writers Michael Barzuhar and Nassim Mitchell, relates the roles that female agents played, ranging from "infiltrating governments to obtain sensitive information" and "carrying out assassinations."

It also highlights the roles of privileged agents such as Isabel Pedro, who the book claims "obtained the plan to build the High Dam in Egypt before its construction in the 1960s", and Sherry Ben Toff, who "contributed to the kidnapping of Mordechai Vanunu, the revealer of secrets of the Dimona nuclear reactor to the British press in 1986." .

It should be noted that the word "Amazons", which means women warriors, corresponds to the word "fighters" that the Mossad gives to women with special tasks, as the book reveals.

The book, according to its authors, is based on interviews conducted by the authors with a group of former Mossad agents, in which a whole chapter is devoted to each agent in which she narrates how to recruit, train, and prepare them to penetrate countries and governments and carry out tasks. It also touched on the difficulties they faced and the emotional stories that they passed through. Out.

The lines revealed that the client, Sylvia Raphael, shocked her bosses when they discovered that she had “established an emotional relationship with at least one of those who dealt with her,” and “this relationship remained a secret for a long period of time,” and that “although her superiors recognized that she was an independent emotional personality, only They did not accept the matter ”, and it was not known from the lines of the book“ whether this scandal affected Raphael's position in (Mossad) or not. "

Silvia Raphael, born in 1937 in South Africa, had been recruited into the "Mossad" while she was working as a teacher in an Israeli kibbutz, to be sent to Paris to work as a spy abroad under the cover of a "freelance journalist" with a forged Canadian passport, to then move to Germany to participate in Collecting information about the perpetrators of the "Munich Operation" that was carried out in 1972 by the "Black September" organization, with the aim of releasing 236 Palestinians in Israeli prisons, and ending with the killing of five Palestinian perpetrators and 11 Israeli athletes, but she was arrested in the so-called "scandal" Lillehammer »in 1974 in Belgium, after she killed a Moroccan named Ahmed Bouchikhi, believing that he, Hassan Salameh, was one of the perpetrators of the“ Munich Operation ”.

In their turn, the two writers said in extracting their interviews with the agents that “(Mossad) has set basic standards for recruiting its girls, foremost among which are their cool-headedness in difficult situations, their love of adventure, and their ability to do the impossible.”

Mossad agent Liron told the book's authors that "personal charm, good looks, and intelligence are essential qualities in recruiting girls who attain the (fighter) rank in the Mossad, and that women are less suspicious than men in the espionage industry."

It is noteworthy that the last book issued by the duo, "Parsohar - Mitchell", before this book, was "Mossad - Major Operations", which was published in 2010 and included chapters on the "Mossad" operations in Iran, Syria, and Iraq.

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