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Formen head of Mossad, Maj. Gen (res.) Meir Dagan (photo: Cpl. Ori Shifrin, IDF Spokesperson, CC BY-NC 2.0)

What covert ops did former Mossad chief lead in Lebanon prior to 1982 invasion?

A well known method which Israeli reporters use to bypass the military censorship is to take the story to the foreign press, (at the price of losing exclusivity, but sometimes journalists just want to get the stuff out). In the New Yorker profile of former Mossad head Meir Dagan, this paragraph appears: Far from everything is known about…

By Noam Sheizaf September 5, 2012

An Israeli soldier prevents a Palestinian cameraman to document the house to house search conducted by the Israeli army in the center of the village during the weekly protest against the occupation and settlements in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, August 24, 2012. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

A week in photos: August 22-29

Demolitions and arrests in the West Bank, solidarity with Rachel Corrie’s family, preparing for war, and more. Activestills images tell the stories of the week. Activestills is a collective of Israeli, international and Palestinian photographers, united by a conviction that photography is a vehicle for political and social change. To stay updated on our latest images, like…

By Activestills August 30, 2012

The problem with Netanyahu’s judgment, when it comes to WMD

Why was a paragraph removed from a Haaretz op-ed concerning an attack on Iran? Dr. Avner Cohen, the unofficial historian of the Israeli nuclear program, noticed today that a paragraph that appeared in the Hebrew print edition of a Haaretz op-ed by Sefi Rachlevski revealed for the first time a few details of a little-known incident from 1998.…

By Noam Sheizaf August 7, 2012

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