Israel to attend truce talks, Gaza hunger crisis acute

The main UN aid agency operating in Gaza says acute malnutrition is accelerating in the north of the Palestinian enclave as Israel prepares to send a delegation to Qatar for new ceasefire talks on a hostage deal with Hamas. Read more

Mediators at Gaza talks push to secure truce: Israel

Efforts to secure a deal on a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza are ongoing, Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad says, despite dimming hopes for a truce during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Read more

Mossad and Qatar officials meet as Israel bombards Gaza

As Israel’s bombardment of Gaza continues, it is showing the first signs of coming to the negotiating table since the collapse of last month’s truce. Read more

Israel approves partial prisoner swap, temporary ceasefire with Hamas

The Israeli Cabinet has approved a partial Qatari-brokered prisoner swap and temporary ceasefire in the early hours of Wednesday morning, paving the way for the first Israeli hostages to return home possibly as soon as Thursday. Read more

Mossad, CIA chiefs and Qatar PM ‘discuss hostage deal’

The CIA and Mossad chiefs have met with the Qatari prime minister in Doha to discuss the parameters of a deal for hostage releases and a pause in Hamas-Israel fighting in the Gaza Strip, a source briefed on the meeting has told Reuters. Read more

Israeli security reserve officers denounce former Mossad director’s ‘pitiful, baseless claim’ 

The Israel Defence and Security Forum, which represents 20,000 Israeli reserve officers and soldiers, issued a sharp condemnation of recent statements by Tamir Pardo, a former Mossad director, which it called “pitiful and baseless.” Read more

Mossad chief secretly visited DC to discuss Saudi deal

The head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency secretly travelled to Washington nearly two weeks ago to discuss a deal with Saudi Arabia. Read more

Body of Mossad agent killed in Italian boat accident back in Israel

The body of the former Mossad agent who was killed in a boating accident on Lake Maggiore in northern Italy on May 28 arrived back in Israel on Wednesday morning, the government confirmed. Read more

Mossad director reveals legendary spy’s last telegram

Mossad director David Barnea has revealed the last telegram sent from Syria by Israel’s legendary spy Eli Cohen. Read more

Mossad appoints first-ever woman as director of Intelligence Authority

For the first time in history, women occupy some of the most senior roles in Israel’s Mossad, the intelligence agency announced on Thursday. Read more

Report: IRGC missile engineer assassinated in Iran

Said Samardar Mutalag, a missile engineer working for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) died in recent days in the city of Shiraz in Iran, several reports say, the latest Iranian scientist tied to the country’s weapons program to die of mysterious circumstances. Read more

Iran president vows Tehran death revenge

Iran will avenge the killing of a colonel of the Revolutionary Guards, President Ebrahim Raisi has pledged ahead of a trip to Oman, media reports say. Read more

Eichmann was turned in by anti-Nazi geologist, German paper reveals

Sixty years after infamous Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was captured by Mossad agents and brought to Israel for trial, a German media outlet has revealed, for the first time, the identity of the person believed to have turned Eichmann in. Read more

Netanyahu: Israel will get rid of Iran’s existential threat, even if US opposes

If faced with the difficult situation of having to choose between an Iran armed with nuclear weapons or a diplomatic clash with Washington following an attack on Iran, Israel would choose the latter, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared. Read more

Netanyahu names new head of Mossad intelligence agency

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Monday that David Barnea has been selected to serve as the next director of the Mossad intelligence agency, following outgoing head Yossi Cohen. Read more

President Rivlin on a farewell visit to Mossad HQ

President of Israel Reuven Rivlin has made a farewell visit to the Mossad thanking its staff for its dedicated work. Read more

Report: Mossad thwarts multiple Iranian attacks on Israeli embassies

Israel’s Channel 12 has reported that the Mossad has prevented multiple Iranian attacks against Israeli embassies in Europe and elsewhere. Read more

Report: Mossad chief’s covert connections instrumental in war on COVID-19

Israeli intelligence agency Mossad director Yossi Cohen used his international connections—some covert—to procure massive amounts of medical equipment and protective gear as part of the government’s efforts to compete in the global bidding war for supplies to contain COVID-19, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. Read more

Mossad delivers 100,000 Coronavirus tests to Israel from unknown country

Israel’s secret intelligence service, the Mossad, has delivered 100,000 Coronavirus test kits to Israel from “a country with which Israel does not maintain diplomatic relations,” Israeli sources say. Read more

Extraordinary women with inspiring stories at UIA Women’s Division 2020 Campaign events

UIA Australia Women’s Division will host an inspirational line up of speakers for its 2020 Campaign Events in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth in March when we celebrate the incredible milestone of Keren Hayesod-UIA’s 100 years of supporting the People of Israel. Read more

Famed Israeli spy Eli Cohen’s widow angry at Mossad over new report

The widow of famed Israeli spy Eli Cohen, who was executed in Damascus in 1965 and then buried in a secret location, expressed anger at the Mossad spy agency on Sunday, after the publication of a report exposing a possible new lead on the whereabouts of her husband’s remains. Read more

Israeli Mossad chief reportedly briefs Trump transition team in secret meeting

The head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency and other top security officials reportedly met with members of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team to brief them on important security matters. Read more

Mossad man in Canberra will not be replaced – report

Israel’s Mossad representative in Canberra, who was expelled in the aftermath of the 2010 Dubai passport scandal, will not be replaced, according to a report in The Weekend Australian. Read more

ABC says Zygier sabotaged mission

Ben Zygier, the Australian-born Mossad agent, unwittingly scuppered a top-sec ret operation to repatriate the bodies of three Israeli soldiers missing in Lebanon for three decades, according to an ABC report. Read more