Institute For Intelligence And Special Operations: Israel's Mossad

One of the most aggressive and successful intelligence organizations in the world, Israel’s Mossad, also referred to as the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations, was conceived on 13 December 1949 as the Institute of Coordination for Intelligence Operations at the behest of Israel’s first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. It is one of three intelligence organizations within the country. Mossad is responsible for overseeing the country’s foreign affairs, and carries out several functions, including covert intelligence gathering, developing and maintaining special diplomatic and other covert relations, preventing the development and procurement of non-conventional weapons by countries deemed hostile, preventing terrorist acts against

Referred to as the “small brother” standing in Hezbollah’s shadow, Hamas is a Palestinian militant movement that emerged in the Gaza Strip during 1987, originally as the political arm of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. Much like Israel’s other enemies, Hamas participates in the political process and provides social services for those loyal to the organization. It receives financial and military support from Iran and seeks the destruction of the state of Israel in order to aid in the creation of the Islamic state of Palestine. Hamas has conducted many atrocities toward Israel. It is responsible for thousands of rockets that are fired at Israeli communities, shooting civilian vehicles in the Gaza Strip, cross-border raids into Israeli communities to murder Israeli citizens, ambushes of Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers and building explosives targeting IDF vehicles, dispatching explosive-laden boats to Israeli ships, and suicide bombings. The group has also spurred three recent wars against Israel. Today, it is considered the largest terrorist group in the Gaza

According to former Mossad Director Meir Dagan, “…motive and deception are the center of Mossad’s endeavors.” Former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky further offers that the motto adopted by the organization reads: “By way of deception, thou shalt do war.” A clear master of deception efforts, Mossad tends to focus on deceiving and infiltrating the ranks of those organizations or nations deemed hostile to Israel. They have long been suspected of utilizing various deception techniques to conduct operations focusing on assassinations, commonly referred to as “focused preventions,” of more recent key figures, such as Hezbollah’s supreme military commander Imad Mughniyeh; IRGC head of missile development Tehrani Moghaddam; Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who oversaw tactical ties with Iran; and Hezbollah weapons development expert Hassan Laqis - those with advanced organizational, operational, and technological capabilities, individuals surmised to be the ones overseeing the details and translation of strategy crafted by superiors into actual