Israel's Mossad has a history of pulling off some truly daring operations, here are some of them
In an unprecedented development, some 3,000 pagers exploded in Lebanon and Syria simultaneously, injuring over 2,800 people, mostly members of Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia group. Fingers were immediately pointed at Israel and more specifically to its spy agency Mossad.
Though Israel has not claimed responsibility for the act, defence experts say that it has the imprints of Mossad all over it. That is because, over the years, Mossad has built a reputation for itself by pulling off some covert operations only it can.
Also read:?How Mossad turned the outdated pager into a weapon against Hezbollah
Abduction of Adolf Eichmann??
One of the most famous acts of Mossad was the abduction of Adolf Eichmann, a former Nazi official responsible for the Jewish Holocaust. In 1944, before the fall of Germany in World War II, Eichmann fled the country and started living under a new identity in Argentina. After learning that Eichmann was still alive, in 1959, Israeli Prime Minister Ben Gurion ordered Isser Harel, the head of the Mossad, to capture him and bring him back to Israel to face trial at the Nuremberg tribunal.?
An eight-member team of Mossad traced him in Argentina and on 11 May 1960, he was kidnapped. Eichmann was smuggled to Israel nine days later, and after trials, he was executed on 1 June 1962.
Operation Wrath of God
Following the Munich massacre in 1972, where the Palestinian militant group Black September abducted and killed members of the Israel Olympic team, Prime Minister Golda Meir tasked Mossad to kill every individual behind it. Between 1972 and 1988, Mossad managed to identify and kill all but one of the perpetrators.
Operation Moses?
In 1984, Mossad launched Operation Moses, a seven-week covert operation airlifting thousands of Ethiopian Jews following the Ethiopian Civil War. Mossad, in cooperation with the CIA and Sudanese State Security, managed to smuggle 8,000 Ethiopian Jews out of Sudan to Israel aboard 30 flights.
Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh
Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Palestinian militant group Hamas, was assassinated along with his personal bodyguard in his hotel room in the Iranian capital Tehran in July 2024.
Haniyeh was in Iran as a state guest for the inauguration of the new Iranian President.
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