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In 2019, Netflix released a six-episode miniseries starring the English comedian and actor Sacha Baron Cohen. Cohen played an Israeli spy, Eli Cohen. The latter Cohen was a Jewish immigrant from Egypt who, once in Israel, was recruited and trained by the Mossad. He then assumed the identity of Kamel Amin Thaabet, a wealthy Arab businessman who, having eventually moved to Damascus, became a backer and confidant of key officials in the Baath party. From his home in Syria, Cohen as Thaabet dispatched vast quantities of military and political intelligence to the Israelis throughout the early 1960s. Viewers of the Netflix show, The Spy, see all of this dramatized, as they also see Cohen's eventual capture, torture, and hanging. The Netflix series, and the story it brings to a new generation of viewers, is true.   Eli Cohen is celebrated as one of Israel's great intelligence agents, one of its great mistaravim, or those who assume the identity of Arabs to carry out their missions. There are streets and institutions and many children and even, in the Golan, a town in Israel named after Eli Cohen. For 60 years the Israeli government has tried to persuade, bribe, cajole, and if necessary steal the Syrian government's Eli Cohen file. During the rule of Hafez and Bashar al-Assad, they could not get them. With the fall of the Assad regime, and with a new regime in Damascus looking to curry favor with the United States and the West, earlier this week the Syrians handed over some 2,500 documents from Syria's Eli Cohen file.   This week, Yossi Melman—a Haaretz reporter, journalist, and author of some eight English-language books on Israeli intelligence—joins Mosaic's editor Jonathan Silver to talk about Eli Cohen, what Israel has reclaimed, and why this story remains so important some six decades on.

Haaretz Jewish World editor Judy Maltz joins this episode of the Haaretz Podcast to discuss the crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists in America. According to Maltz, the Trump administration’s targeting of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil for deportation as punishment for leading disruptive anti-Israel protests is “pulling the American Jewish community apart.” Khalil is “no Mother Teresa or Righteous Among the Nations” and is “probably pro-Hamas,” said Maltz, but there is “no evidence” Khalil has committed crimes that justify deportation. “It’s a very complicated place to be a liberal Jew today in America,” she noted. “Whose side are you on? Do you come out against attempts to combat antisemitism on campus? What are you supposed to do?” Also on the podcast, Haaretz columnist and Israeli intelligence expert Yossi Melman explains why Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to wait until this week to fire the head of the Shin Bet, Israel's domestic security service, and why it is so worrying. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Yossi Melman, security and intelligence commentator for Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports from Tel Aviv.

The U.S. has strongly cautioned Israel against targeting Iran's nuclear facilities and oil fields in a possible retaliatory strike for the 181 ballistic missiles Tehran launched last week. On the Haaretz Podcast, strategic and intelligence expert and Haaretz columnist Yossi Melman argues that such targets should be “off limits and out of bounds,” and not only because of the American objections.  Israel should limit its response to military installations such as the “depots of long range missiles threatening Israel, the headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and communication command centers and air defense systems,” says Melman. He adds that hitting Iran's oil fields and potentially paralyzing the world oil market - if Iran strikes back at Saudi oil fields - “is a very dangerous game.” Also on the podcast, Melman discusses the deep contrast between the “colossal failure” of Israel's vaunted intelligence services before October 7 and the way they have “salvaged their image and reputation” in recent months in their penetration of both Hezbollah and Iran.   “Even within the Israeli intelligence community, they cannot explain this huge, huge gap between their performance on October 7 and their performance during the war,” he says.  At the same time, he warns, “we need to put it into perspective. Israeli intelligence is excellent, but at the end of the day - it is just a tool” meant to support war goals and diplomatic efforts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hamas terrordåd mot Israel leder inte bara till krig. Det har också gjort att bistånd frysts inne när behoven är som störst. Hur blev det så? Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Medverkande: 15-åriga Sahar från Sundsvall, Yossi Melman, israelisk säkerhetsexpert, Jörgen Jensehaugen, historiker vid peace research institute i Oslo, Omar BenJakoub, reporter på tidningen Haaretz, Espen Barth Eide, socialdemokratisk utrikesminister i Norge, Anna Sundström, generalsekreterare för biståndsorganisationen Olof Palmes Internationella Center, Anna Eggelind, internationell chef på biståndsorganisationen Diakonia, Linda Säll, regionalansvarig för Mellanöstern och Nordafrika på stiftelsen Kvinna till Kvinna, Muhammad Issa, kommunikatör på organisationen WeTheatre på Västbanken, Johan Forsell, moderat biståndsminister i den svenska regeringen.Programledare: Lotten Collinlotten.collin@sr.seReporter: Lama AlshehabyTekniker: Maria StillbergProducent: Ulrika Bergqvistulrika.bergqvist@sr.se

In a special edition of the Haaretz Podcast, host Allison Kaplan Sommer and the Haaretz editorial team asked subscribers worldwide what they saw as the most urgent questions as the Israel-Hamas conflict passed the 100-day mark. The questions poured in.  Is there any way to get rid of Netanyahu? What do Israelis know - and think about the level of death and destruction in Gaza? How does Israel decide when to assassinate a Hamas leader? Should Israel be more worried about progressive Democrats or the possible election of Donald Trump and the rise of the far-right? What will the future look like for Israel and Gaza once this conflict is over? Should Israel go out of its way to protect diaspora Jews? Listen to the answers given by Haaretz editor in chief Aluf Ben, Haaretz English editor in chief Esther Solomon, Haaretz analysts Anshel Pfeffer, Yossi Melman, Alon Pinkas and Dahlia Scheindlin, and Haaretz correspondents Sheren Falah Saab and Ben Samuels.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Yossi Melman, Expert on Intelligence Gathering in the Middle East; Martin Heydon, Minister of State at Dept of Agriculture, Food & Marine; David Cullinane, Sinn Féin TD for Waterford; Verona Murphy, Independent TD for Wexford

Israel's reality transformed overnight this weekend and what looks like a major war is unfolding. Events are progressing rapidly, so in this week's Haaretz podcast, editor in chief of Haaretz, Aluf Benn, and Haaretz senior analyst Yossi Melman explain in conversation with Allison Kaplan Sommer how a country that has prided itself with having the best intelligence in the world was hit hard by an unprecedented surprise attack from the Gaza Strip. Benn says the Hamas orchestrated attack – that has already claimed the lives of over 600 Israelis - was a "total surprise," and that "there was no intelligence indicating anything remotely like this." Even though there was a sense that Israel's enemies would take advantage of its inner rifts, "none of the warnings included anything similar to what happened yesterday." According to Benn, "This is the worst blow to Israel in any war, since 1948, and of any terrorist attacks inside Israel or abroad. In 1973 Israel was taken by surprise, but the fighting took place far away from civilians. Now this is first and foremost an attack against civilians, and for the first time we have dozens of military prisoners of war and civilians taken hostage in Gaza. People are desperately trying to find out what happened to their family members. We know people, friends, that have children who are missing or dead. It's a very sad, unprecedented situation for all of us." Melman addresses the "huge failure" of Israel's Intelligence. "When you talk to people in the intelligence community, they are confused, they are puzzled, they don't know what happened. They have no explanation," he says. "Certainly it was a huge failure, Israel has been prided with having the best intelligence in the world, and the intelligence failed. For many Israelis, what happened on Saturday, 50 years and one day after the Yom Kippur War started, is reminiscent of the same failure. But there is a big difference: Before the war in 1973, the intelligence was there. Israel had a lot of pieces of intelligence but didn't know how to read it or didn't want to analyze it in the correct way. This time there was nothing." The Gaza Strip is an area Israel was supposedly watching very closely, so having hundreds of militants cross into Israel on a holiday morning was unimaginable. "It's a failure of the military intelligence, it's a failure of the domestic security service - the Shin Bet – both the organizations have the technological means to listen to the other side, to recruit agents for human intelligence. It's a huge machine of intelligence gathering that didn't function." Looking forward, both Benn and Melman think the wounds will take years to heal. "It's going to take time for the public to realize what happened," Benn says. "We are talking about hundreds of bereaved families, hundreds of hostage families, it's still unthinkable. I'm hearing horrible stories from people I know."    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

EPISODE 228: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:42) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump may have done the one thing that would force the ENTIRE Republican party to repudiate him: The Israelis Intelligence Corps and the Mossad reportedly think Donald Trump has damaged the security of the state of Israel. “Top brass in the Israeli defense establishment,” writes the intelligence and strategic affairs correspondent Yossi Melman in the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, “are concerned that secret documents seized from (Trump) include material whose exposure has damaged Israel's security.” Melman quotes two senior Israeli defense officials, one from the Mossad and the other from the Intelligence Corps as saying, quote: “It's an absolutely reasonable possibility that some of the documents are about Israel and its capabilities, maybe even its nuclear program,” unquote. And reading between the lines, Melman and his sources never once mention the story of Trump reading the details of the Mark Milley plan to attack IRAN to Mark Meadows' ghost-writers, so presumably what Israeli Intelligence fears is that Trump has damaged other elements of their nation's security. So ANOTHER fault line opens between Trump and Republican Sacred Cows: Trump versus Troops, Trump versus Law And Order, Trump Versus… Israel. Damaging the 21st Century Republican Party's supposed allegiance to Israel is the most sacred of its cows because it is viscerally important to the party's fanatical religious base. Polling from as recently as 2018 confirms that at least HALF of the Evangelicals don't give two actual spits about ACTUAL Jews or the NATION of Israel. It is simply a tentpole belief of their cult that before all the bible-thumpers can go to Heaven in a rapture, all the Jews have to be in Jerusalem and be converted or die. The Republicans pretend allegiance to Israel in order to maintain ownership of the Evangelicals who need Jerusalem preserved so they can be converted when the alarm goes off at Rapture O'Clock. Plus Pence takes a Nikki Haley style Trump-Endangered-The-Troops climbdown, Ryan Goodman thinks Smith has a backup play in New Jersey just in case things come acropper in the Florida trial, Judge Cannon has exactly 14 days of active Judge Stuff, Trump turned down a chance to make all this stuff go away. And the story of the British TV producer who shouted "President Trump? Are you ready to go to jail?" during his creation of a false victory narrative at a Miami Cuban bakery after the arraignment Tuesday, takes a strange twist. The guy who got in her face and called her a "Stupid B----" has self-identified, and he's a former member of the Trump Government AND was involved in image polishing for Putin in America, Michael R. Caputo. B-BLOCK (18:20) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: To finish off the Michael Caputo story and his world-class exit quote from the Trump Regime in 2020. Plus the Archives are mad at Trump AGAIN. Lindsey Graham makes another threat. And Fani Willis officially says she isn't postponing anything. (24:45) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Elon Musk wants America to have a dictator who'll kill everybody; The New York Times and Fox News share dishonors over Trump's Tuesday; and why do all these supposedly anti-pedophilia right wingers say such creepy things about kids and kids' characters and sex? Why did Ben Shapiro talk about Bert and Ernie wearing "assless chaps"? C-BLOCK (33:30) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: All the strikes are against 10-year old Slinky in the New York pound (35:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: The day in 1974 that I didn't go to Boston University because of...Howard Stern.See omny.fm/listener for privacy information.

Ukraine has been begging Israel for defensive weapons systems since the start of the Russian invasion, but Israel has refused, fearing the wrath of Russian president Vladimir Putin.  Security expert and Haaretz journalist Yossi Melman tells Haaretz Weekly host Allison Kaplan Sommer that Russian's recent use of Iranian suicide drones and expected deployment of Iranian-made ballistic missiles in Ukraine should drastically changes the equation for Israeli leaders. “Israel has always said that Iran is its number one enemy and they will fight Iran wherever they are - in Yemin, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. So what's the difference now with Ukraine? Iran is acquiring experience on the battlefield there which will turn against Israel in the near future: they are learning, they are improving their systems, and as a result, they will be able to upgrade their drones and their missiles, and send them all over the Middle East, including against Israel.” Also on the podcast, Haaretz journalist Sam Sokol shares stories from his recent journey across a “very very surreal” wartime Ukraine, and discusses the efforts to sustain Jewish life there and the “bitterness” he encountered regarding Israel's refusal to offer military assistance. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Iran pomaga Rosji. Izrael walczy z Iranem. Dlaczego Tel Awiw w takim razie nie pomaga Kijowowi? Na to pytanie odpowiada dziennikarz izraelskiej gazety Haaretz i autor książek na temat służb specjalnych Yossi Melman. Stałe wsparcie dla podcastu: https://patronite.pl/PoProstuWschod https://zrzutka.pl/6m35sn. Jeśli spodobał się Państwu konkretnie ten odcinek, możecie przekazać napiwek buycoffee.to/ppw Playlista Radio Wschód, czyli najlepsza muzyka ze Wschodu https://cutt.ly/BRLGvhP W tym odcinku wykorzystałem utwór: Tuna - Sahara Zachęcam do zajrzenia na fan-page Po prostu Wschód: https://www.facebook.com/poprostuwschod https://www.instagram.com/po_prostu_wschod/ Mój Twitter https://twitter.com/PogorzelskiP

BICOM's Research Associate Sam Nurding sits downs with Haaretz's intelligence and security correspondent Yossi Melman to discuss Israeli security issues. This episode clips their conversation about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the threat of Iran. A full transcript of their discussion will be published in our journal, Fathom, in a few weeks.      

Host Simon Spungin is joined by senior intelligence analyst Yossi Melman, opinions editor Esther Solomon, and tech and cyber editor Omer Benjakob. We discuss the fallout from the Pegasus Project and ask: What limitations does and should Israel place on the export of these technologies? Did Benjamin Netanyahu act as a travelling salesman for the NSO Group? And will internationalpressure lead to a change in Israeli policy? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Host Simon Spungin is joined by Haaretz senior intelligence analyst Yossi Melman and Haaretz.com’s tech editor, Omer Benjakob, to discuss the ongoing hostilities between Israel and Hamas. What, if any, were both sides hoping to achieve? What role has social media disinformation played in the conflict? And is there a way to avoid a repetition in the near future? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Host Simon Spungin is joined by Haaretz’s senior intelligence analyst Yossi Melman to discuss the latest developments in the shadow war between Israel and Iran, the nuclear talks in Vienna, and Jonathan Pollard’s excruciating and arguably antisemitic Independence Day interview. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is a segment of episode #279 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Law & Disorder: Electoral Coup & An Act Of State Terror w/ Marjorie Cohn.” Listen to the full episode: https://bit.ly/LBWcohn Learn more about Marjorie and her work: https://marjoriecohn.com Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and former president of the National Lawyers Guild, discusses the recent assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's top nuclear scientist, on November 27th. As she writes in a recent article in TruthOut:  “Although the Israeli government has not claimed credit for the illegal killing, there is little doubt of its culpability. Trump implicitly praised the assassination, retweeting a comment by Israeli journalist and intelligence expert Yossi Melman that the killing was a “major psychological and professional blow” to Iran. This was an “implicit approval if there ever was one,” according to Sina Toossi, a senior research analyst at the National Iranian American Council.” (https://bit.ly/3ahMoMz) I ask Marjorie the purpose of this very dangerous move, as it may very well lead to a full-scale war between the US, Israel, and other regional players — particularly as we prepare for a transition of power to a Biden presidency next month.  Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, former president of the National Lawyers Guild, deputy secretary general of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers and a member of the advisory board of Veterans for Peace. Her most recent book is ‘Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues.’ WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com BOOK: http://bit.ly/ORBITgr PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness DONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop EVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

[Intro: 10:02 | Outro: 39:18] Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and former president of the National Lawyers Guild, discusses President Trump and his legal team's ongoing attempt to perform an "electoral coup" since the presidential election last month. She describes, in detail, the legal challenges Trump's team have made in the last several weeks, as well as the likelihood of their success in undermining the result of the election in states across the United States. After that, we discuss the recent assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's top nuclear scientist, on November 27th. As she writes in a recent article in TruthOut:  “Although the Israeli government has not claimed credit for the illegal killing, there is little doubt of its culpability. Trump implicitly praised the assassination, retweeting a comment by Israeli journalist and intelligence expert Yossi Melman that the killing was a “major psychological and professional blow” to Iran. This was an “implicit approval if there ever was one,” according to Sina Toossi, a senior research analyst at the National Iranian American Council.” (https://bit.ly/3ahMoMz) I ask Marjorie the purpose of this very dangerous move, as it may very well lead to a full-scale war between the US, Israel, and other regional players — particularly as we prepare for a transition of power to a Biden presidency next month.  Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, former president of the National Lawyers Guild, deputy secretary general of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers and a member of the advisory board of Veterans for Peace. Her most recent book is ‘Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues.’ Episode Notes: - Learn more about Marjorie and her work: https://marjoriecohn.com - Read her articles ‘Will Trump’s Attempt to Subvert the Election Results Succeed?’ and ‘Trump’s Support for Israel’s Killing of Iranian Scientist Could Lead to War’ at TruthOut : https://bit.ly/3m79AiE / https://bit.ly/3ahMoMz - The song featured in this episode is “sin-phonies” by Knxwledge from the album TodaysAlreadYesterday.: https://knxwledge.bandcamp.com/album/todaysalreadyesterday WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com BOOK: http://bit.ly/ORBITgr PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness DONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop EVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

The second in a double-header on Israeli intelligence. This week we walk the story up to the present day – including the election of Joe Biden and the recent assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. We also hear how Israeli intelligence is retooling for the twenty-first century. Andrew is joined by journalist Yossi Melman, a reporter for Haaretz and advisor on the Netflix Series Inside the Mossad, and Dan Raviv, who was at CBS for over 40 years. They are the authors of Every Spy a Prince and Spies Against Armageddon.

Haaretz’s veteran intelligence and strategic affairs analyst Yossi Melman joins host Simon Spungin to discuss Israel’s continued sale of weapons and ammunition to Azerbaijan, which is engaged in a bloody conflict with Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region in of the South Caucasus. Amid shifting and cynical regional alliances, how has Israel found itself on the same side of this conflict as Turkey? We also discuss the coronavirus crisis, protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the increasingly dangerous schism in Israeli society. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In a week which saw Israel finally end a 16-month wait for a new government, host Simon Spungin is joined for Part 1 by Anshel Pfeffer to discuss the deal between Benjamin Netanyahu and Kahol Lavan leader Benny Gantz, which will see each of them serving as prime minister for 18 months. And in Part 2, Yossi Melman explains how Israel’s vaunted spy agency, the Mossad, went from covert ops to COVID ops.

Host Simon Spungin is practicing responsible social distancing again, but is joined by telephone by Yossi Melman, Anshel Pfeffer and Judy Maltz. On the agenda today: Israel’s arguably Orwellian response to the coronavirus crisis – granting the Shin Bet access to the cellphones of citizens believed to have contracted the virus – and the Gordian knot of post-election coalition building, made even more complicated by the global health panic.

On today’s show: Host Simon Spungin is joined by veteran intelligence and strategic affairs correspondent Yossi Melman, who recently rejoined Haaretz after a six-year hiatus. In a wide-ranging discussion, we talk about the daily interference from the military censor that Israeli journalists have to put up with, the authorities’ attempts to silence critical reporting by claiming it could endanger national security and why the Mossad – one of the most clandestine organizations in the world – would welcome documentary-makers with open arms. We also discuss the Iranian threat to Israel – including Benjamin Netanyahu and Naftali Bennett’s politically motives threats – and China’s stealthy but largely overlooked efforts to infiltrate sensitive Israeli infrastructure projects. Read Yossi Melman’s most recent articles: Head of Iran’s Quds Force in Yemen Who's Behind Saudi Oil Attack ‘Identified’ Why Would Israel Reportedly Have Missiles That Reach Beyond Iran? Are Israel's Most Sensitive Military Operations Top Secret? Apparently Not Follow Haaretz Weekly on iTunes, Spotify and Google Podcasts.

In this special episode of Policy, Guns and Money, Strategist editor Jack Norton covers this year’s Beersheba Dialogue, the annual conference between ASPI and the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv. He spoke to former Labor MP and shadow assistant minister for defence and cybersecurity Gai Brodtmann about the state of the Australia–Israel relationship and arms control expert Emily Landau about the Iran nuclear deal and the possible threat posed by Tehran. Jack also interviews veteran journalist Yossi Melman about Israel’s relationship with China, with a focus on Chinese infrastructure and investment in the country. In this episode: Gai Brodtmann: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gai_Brodtmann Emily B. Landau: https://www.inss.org.il/person/b-landauemily/ Yossi Melman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yossi_Melman Background music: "Fonkee Ryde" by Noir Et Blanc Vie, via the You Tube Audio Library.

durée : 00:10:01 - Les dessous de la traque : le Mossad rate Aloïs Brunner (Chapitre 5, épisode 4) - Yossi Melman, le journaliste israélien spécialiste du Mossad, révèle pourquoi Aloïs Brunner n'a pas été tué par le colis piégé expédié par un agent israélien. Un détail tragiquement technique. Les chasseurs de nazis, un récit radiophonique en 40 épisodes Pendant huit semaines, nous vous offrons : entretiens exclusifs, archives rares et extraits de récits incontournables. Et aussi quelques révélations.... Tous les ingrédients d'un polar historique : justice en trompe l'oil, vengeance secrète, coups tordus des services spéciaux. Tout est vrai ! Une enquête historique de Michel Pomarède. Réalisé par Jean-Philippe Navarre. Prise de sons : Olivier Dupré et Julien Doumenc. Mixage : Alain Joubert. Collaboration : Christine Bernard Témoignages traduits et dits par Eve Dehr et Michel Zlotovski Textes lus par Elisabeth Mazev et Xavier Xazpla

The enemy of my enemy... is still my enemy but at least they can help me out for a bit. That was the attitude the Israelis had when they asked an ex-Nazi intelligence officer to help them out in the early 60s. In an adventure that reads more like a spy novel than a history book, Otto Skorzeny teamed up with the Mossad to stop a threat that would shift the balance of power in the Middle East. (Totally feel like I'm writing a blurb on the back of a spy thriller right now) Special thanks to Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman for their fantastic article on this subject: foward.com/news/336943/ht/

The history of Israel’s intelligence community—led by the feared and famous Mossad—includes stunning successes and embarrassing failures with important implications for war and peace today. CBS journalist Dan Raviv co-author with Israeli journalist Yossi Melman, of Spies Against Armageddon, traces this history from the country’s independence in 1948 right up to the crises of today.