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No Mission Is Impossible: The Death-Defying Missions of the Israeli Special Forces
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By Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal
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A riveting follow-up to Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal’s account of the most memorable missions of the Mossad, No Mission Is Impossible sheds light on some of the most harrowing, nail-biting operations of the Israeli Special Forces.
In No Mission Is Impossible, Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal depict in electrifying detail major battles, raids in enemy territory, and the death- defying commando missions of the Israeli Special Forces. The stories are often of victories, but sometimes also of immense failures, and they run side by side with the accounts of the lives and accomplishments of some of Israel’s most prominent figures.
Captivating and eye-opening, No Mission Is Impossible is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how these crucial missions shaped Israel, and the world at large.
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Michael Bar-Zohar is a writer, public speaker, and former lawmaker. Author of many novels and nonfiction books, he was a member of the Knesset and envoy to the Council of Europe. A former adviser to General Moshe Dayan, Dr. Bar-Zohar has also served as a professor at Haifa University in Israel and at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is one of Israel's foremost experts on espionage and the official biographer of David Ben-Gurion and Shimon Peres. He also wrote the biography of Isser Harel, the legendary Director of the Mossad, and co-authored The Quest for the Red Prince, which dealt with the bloody war between the Mossad and Black September. Bar-Zohar's books have been translated into eighteen languages.
Mossad book by Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal
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Mossad book by Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal
This is the true story about the great missions of Israeli secret service. The book gives a thorough knowledge about the types of adventurous undertakings taken up by the Mossad for the sake of their country.
For years and years Israel?s well-known security arm, the Mossad, has been broadly known as the best intelligence service in the world. In this book the author takes us through the exciting, eye-opening accounts of the most dangerous, most critical tasks undertaken by the agency for last 60 years.
The book talks about the incredible stories full of action right from the capture of Nazi assassin Adolph Eichmann to the recent removal of key Iranian nuclear scientists. The book is very useful for all those who want to know about the world. It is an excellent collection of case works and narration Mossad?s activities. It is a good read for those who like to know about real life dangerous missions of Intelligence agencies. The book comes in paperback format and can be bagged from A. About the author Michael Bar-Zohar was born in Bulgaria and he immigrated to Israel in 1948. He attended High School in Tel Aviv and went on to study economics and international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also studied at the Institute of Political Science in the University of Paris, where he earned a PhD. He is an Israeli historian, novelist and politician. He was a member of the Knesset on behalf of the Alignment and Labor Party in the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1965 Bar-Zohar won the Sokolov Award for his achievements as a journalist. He published several books, including biographies of David Ben-Gurion and Shimon Peres, several books about the Israeli security organizations and an account of the rescue of Bulgarian Jews from the Nazis in World War II. Nissim Mishal is one of the foremost TV personalities in Israel. After graduating with a ma .Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
The dirtiest actions should be carried out by the most honest men.
I've been eyeing this book, sitting patiently on my library shelves, enough visits to finally peak my interest, but I knew that lugging this beast of a book home was commitment enough, so I waited for a sign and it came that same week when my mother mentioned the movie The Debt. And, oh, what a racing read! No thriller has been as nail-biting intense as the recounting of these Mossad missions.The Mossad is widely recognized today as the best intelligence service in the world. It is also the most enigmatic, shrouded in secrecy. Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service unveils the defi ning and most dangerous operations that have shaped Israel and the world at large from the agency's more than sixty-year history, among them: the capture of Adolf Eichmann, the eradication of Black September, the destruction of the Syrian nuclear facility, and the elimination of key Iranian nuclear scientists.
Through intensive research and exclusive interviews with Israeli leaders and Mossad agents, authors Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal re-create these missions in riveting detail, vividly bringing to life the heroic operatives who risked everything in the face of unimaginable danger. In the words of Shimon Peres, president of Israel, this gripping, white-knuckle read "tells what should have been known and isn't--that Israel's hidden force is as formidable as its recognized physical strength."
To lay it all on the table, I wasn't sure before starting this book if I'd even bother to read through more than one story because the book is quite intimidating in its size. But then I opened the first chapter, titled “ King of Shadows,” and was swept right up into the world of high-stake Mossad operations, led at the hands of the "legendary fighter," Meir Dagan.
“He had planned the entire operation: posing as Leban