03 — OPERATIONS
Operations
27 public-record operations — from the 1960 Eichmann capture to modern intelligence history, each with documented evidence assessment.
The Eichmann Capture
The 1960 capture of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and his secret transport to Israel is one of the most docu…
The Eichmann Trial
The 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem transformed the historical memory of the Holocaust and established a legal…
The Argentina Sovereignty Dispute (1960)
The secret removal of Adolf Eichmann from Argentina in 1960 created an immediate diplomatic crisis: Argentina argued tha…
Operation Damocles (1962–1963)
Operation Damocles is the name commonly given to reported Israeli measures in 1962–1963 directed at scientists involved …
Operation Diamond (1966)
Operation Diamond is the name given to the reported acquisition of a Soviet-built MiG-21 fighter jet for Israel in 1966,…
The Munich Olympic Attack (1972)
The attack on the Israeli team at the 1972 Munich Olympics killed eleven team members and changed counterterrorism prior…
The Lillehammer Affair (1973)
The Lillehammer affair refers to the killing of Ahmed Bouchiki in Lillehammer, Norway, in 1973 by a team widely attribut…
Operation Solomon (1991)
Operation Solomon was the 1991 airlift of more than fourteen thousand Ethiopian Jews from Addis Ababa to Israel in a sin…
The Mashal Crisis (1997)
The 1997 attempt on Hamas political leader Khaled Mashal in Amman is one of the most consequential publicly documented i…
The Vanunu Case (1986)
The Vanunu case began when Mordechai Vanunu, a former technician at Israel's Dimona facility, disclosed information abou…
The Dubai Affair (2010)
The 2010 killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai became one of the most exposed intelligence operations on record, provok…
Stuxnet (2010)
Stuxnet was a computer worm whose 2010 public exposure revealed an unprecedented cyber attack apparently aimed at Iran's…
The Iran Nuclear Archive (2018)
In 2018 Israel presented what it said was an Iranian nuclear archive obtained by intelligence operatives. The A–Z record…
Osirak and Its Intelligence Context (1981)
The Israeli air strike on Iraq's Osirak reactor in June 1981 was a documented military operation whose intelligence asse…
Entebbe and Its Intelligence Context (1976)
The 1976 rescue of hostages at Entebbe was an Israeli military operation carried out with intelligence support. The chro…
The Yom Kippur War Warning (1973)
Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on 6 October 1973. Israeli intelligence possessed significant indicators, but senior ass…
The Six-Day War and Intelligence (1967)
The 1967 Six-Day War reshaped the region and, in the encyclopedia's chronology, brought intelligence into the institutio…
The King David Hotel Bombing (1946)
The 1946 bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem is one of the most important pre-state events in Israeli history —…
Balkan Evacuation Operations (1990s)
During the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, Israeli institutions assisted Jewish communities affected by the conflict. The A–…
The Wadi Haddad Network
The Wadi Haddad network refers to the external-operations structure associated with Wadie Haddad within the PFLP during …
The Zamir–Hussein Contacts (1973)
The 1973 contacts between Mossad director Zvi Zamir and Jordan's King Hussein are documented liaison directly tied to th…
The Olympic Security Legacy (1972–present)
The attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics transformed the security of major international events. The A…
Prisoner Exchanges and Israeli Intelligence
Prisoner exchanges are a documented recurring theme in Israeli diplomacy and intelligence history, from the post-1973 er…
The Vienna Transit Route
Vienna served as a major transit point for Jewish emigrants from the Soviet bloc during the Cold War and became a securi…
Third-Country Operations
Third-country operations are operations conducted outside both Israel and the target's home country. The A–Z records the…
Weapons Proliferation Monitoring
Monitoring the spread of weapons and related technology is one of the most documented intelligence themes in the modern …
Targeted Killing — Public Record
Targeted-killing claims are among the most heavily contested material in the modern intelligence record. The encyclopedi…