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    Masada To Mossad
    Masada To Mossad
    Masada To Mossad
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    Masada To Mossad

    By Wolf Sherman

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    Index

    Masada
    The Siege Of Masada
    Archeology And Masada
    Masada, tragic fortress in the sky
    Zealots
    Sicarii
    Black Cube
    Katsa
    Espionage
    Mossad - Background And History
    Operations conducted by the Mossad 1956 onwards
    Counter Terrorism - Technology Acquisition/ Counter Proliferation - Humanitarian Operations - Conclusions
    Mossad - The Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks (ha-Mossad le-Modiin ule-Tafkidim Meyuhadim)
    Technological Aspects of Mossad Operations Viewed
    Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) - Vatican-Israel Relations
    CFR Corporate membership (America)
    Israel Council on Foreign Relations

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWolf Sherman
    Release dateJul 7, 2018
    ISBN9780463031964
    Masada To Mossad
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    Wolf Sherman

    Biography - Wolf ShermanWolf was born in 1970, grew up in Pretoria and after school joined the South African Police in 1988. During 1993 he was transferred to Johannesburg. During his colourfully interesting police career he was attached to several specialist divisions that include the anti-vehicle theft unit, organised-crime-and-political-investigations unit, and the East-Rand Murder & Robbery unit. After his police career he successfully applied his experience in the corporate financial world as insurance investigator and financial planner.Wolf is 48-years of age, have been blessed with three daughters, and is an avid blood and blood platelet donor. He fills his time by weaving his unusual life experience and keen interest in religion, metaphysics, war and political research and that of his love for food and classical music - into his poetry, fictional short stories, and novels.“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” - George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons.I'm always curious to listen when people talk about which book - ever - they'd first read. For me it was “The Man Called Noon” that was published in 1970. I suppose that it goes without saying the 1973 film directed by Peter Collinson - of the same name - as the 1970 Louis L'Amour novel, was quite a hit in the day.I was always in love with the books in which storytellers extended an invitation right from the word go, and pulled me in into a different world. The next early love for me growing up were bookshops and libraries. But I'd consider libraries had the first place. My love for both novels and short stories grew over the years, but somehow short stories found me more often. In part, I think because one can sponge it up in a single sitting, and move on to the next world, so to speak.On the topic of short stories, the storytellers in this instance tell how they see it - but being forced far quicker to relay that. I have no doubt that any short story can be stretched out and pinned down to become a novel - if one wanted to. Obviously there is no set length that a short story has to subscribe to, but I'd imagine anything from five-thousand to twenty-five-or-so-thousand words is adequate to save someone, murder a few people, get some revenge, use most of the rope in your boot, discard the spade when you're done, and go in hiding till the whole thing blows over. Of course, if there's a body to begin with... Which really stems from poor planning - I have always thought - in a story. Naturally. Of course, we also need to fall in love at some point and give our whole heart to someone special. It makes for a more balanced killer. In a story. Naturally.Look me up on:Pinterest @ Wolf Sherman BooksInstagram: @Wolf_ShermanTwitter: @WolfSherman2

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      Masada To Mossad - Wolf Sherman

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      Copyright © Wolf Sherman. All Rights Reserved. This is an ongoing work of research where some sources are quoted verbatim to ensure accuracy, it would therefore be wise to include; when reproducing this ongoing work of research, the sources which are named and credited for the work they have put into it. This work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronically, electrostatic magnetic tape or mechanically; including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the author. Wolf Sherman Books does not claim to hold any particular political opinion whatsoever over the contents of the information, nor does it claim any credit for sections in the contents for this work, attributed to others, other than research, and setting it up in a particular order - again, for the benefit of researchers on this topic. This work is being made available as a condensed historical account, of which the sources are all named and credited.

      Index

      Terminology

      Mossad In The News

      Black Cube

      Workings of Israel's secret service exposed (1996)

      Katsa

      10 Controversial Mossad Operations

      The elite women who work for 'the family’

      Masada, tragic fortress in the sky

      The Nazis who got away from the Mossad

      Archeology And Masada

      CounterTerrorism - Technology Acquisition/ Counter Proliferation - Humanitarian Operations - Conclusions

      Mossad And South Africa

      Sources

      Israeli Foreign Ministry;

      Joseph Telushkin Jewish Literacy, NY:

      William Morrow and Co., 1991. Reprinted by permission of the author;

      UNESCO;

      Institute For Jewish Ideas And Ideals

      The Times Of Israel.

      The Guardian, 24 and 25 February 2010 - Ian Black.

      London Times, 2 August, 1996.

      The Telegraph 20 Feb 2010. Gordon Thomas.

      Listverse DAVID TORMSEN NOVEMBER 6, 2015

      Mossad's licence to kill. The Telegraph. 17 February 2010.

      Mossad Hit Team's Big Mistake: 40 Years Ago, Wrong Man Killed in Norway — New Reflections. July 1, 2013.

      What the new boss of Mossad means for Israeli foreign policy. The Economist. Retrieved 2017-05-06.

      Ostrovsky, Victor. By Way of Deception-The making and unmaking of a Mossad Officer. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. ISBN 0-9717595-0-2

      Thomas Gordon. Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. ISBN 0-312-25284-6

      Thomas, Gordon. Martin, Dillon. Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2002. ISBN 0-7867-1295-3

      The History Of War

      Middle East Eye - Richard Silverstein

      Terminology

      NUMEC: In the 1960s, the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) in Apollo, Pennsylvania, which produced nuclear material, was the town’s largest employer.

      Black Cube: A private intelligence agency, which is based in London, Paris and Tel Aviv, and is the trading name of BC Strategy Ltd. The company was founded in 2010 by former Israeli intelligence officers Dan Zorella (in Hebrew: דן זורלא) and Avi Yanus (in Hebrew: אבי ינוס). Its employees include former members of Israeli intelligence units, including Aman, Mossad and Shin Bet, as well as legal and financial experts. Black Cube’s main business is litigation support, in which the company provides intelligence, evidence and advisory services in multi-jurisdictional legal and criminal cases. Black Cube's tactics have resulted in a number of international controversies. In Romania, two of its employees were convicted of criminal charges involving harassment and hacking.

      Zealots: The Zealots were a political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism, which sought to incite the people of Judea Province to rebel against the Roman Empire and expel it from the Holy Land by force of arms, most notably during the First Jewish–Roman War (66–70). Zealotry was the term used by Josephus for a fourth sect or fourth Jewish philosophy during this period. In the Talmud, the Zealots are the non-religious (not following the religious leaders), and are also called the Biryonim (בריונים) meaning boorish, wild, or ruffians, and are condemned for their aggression, their unwillingness to compromise to save the survivors of besieged Jerusalem, and their blind militarism against the Rabbis' opinion to seek treaties for peace. However, according to one body of tradition, the Rabbis initially supported the revolt up until the Zealots initiated a civil war, at which point all hope of resisting the Romans was deemed impossible. The Zealots are further blamed for having contributed to the demise of Jerusalem and the Second Temple, and of ensuring Rome's retributions and stranglehold on Judea. According to the Babylonian Talmud, Gittin:56b, the Biryonim destroyed decades' worth of food and firewood in besieged Jerusalem to force the Jews to fight the Romans out of desperation. This event directly led to the escape of Johanan ben Zakai out of Jerusalem, who met Vespasian, a meeting which led to the foundation of the Academy of Jamnia which produced the Mishnah which led to the survival of rabbinical Judaism. The Zealots advocated violence against the Romans, their Jewish collaborators, and the Sadducees, by raiding for provisions and other activities to aid their cause. Taking the Greek word zelotes in Acts 22:3 and Galatians 1:14 of the New Testament to mean a 'Zealot' with capital Z (the earliest Greek manuscripts are uncials or all capital letters), an article by Mark R. Fairchild suggests that Paul the Apostle may have been a Zealot, which might have been the driving force behind his persecution of the Christians (see stoning of Saint Stephen) before his conversion to Christianity, and his incident at Antioch even after his conversion. While most English translations of the Bible render this Greek word as the adjective zealous, the word is a noun meaning 'adherent, loyalist, enthusiast; patriot, zealot'. A 'Zealot' with capital Z, however, would suggest a member of the particular Zealots, the group that emerged in Jerusalem ca. AD 6 according to Josephus, see above. In the two cited verses Paul literally declares himself as one who is loyal to God, or an ardent observer of the Law, but the relationship of Paul of Tarsus and Judaism is still debated. This does not necessarily prove Paul was revealing himself as a Zealot. A translation (the Modern King James Version of Jay P. Green) renders it as 'a zealous one'. Two modern translations (Jewish New Testament and Alternate Literal Translation) render it as 'a zealot'. The Unvarnished New Testament (1991) renders Galatians 1:14 as ...being an absolute zealot for the traditions.... These translations may not be inaccurate, but it is disputed by those who claim it gives the wrong association with the Zealots.

      Sicarii: One particularly extreme group, perhaps a subgroup of the Zealots, was known in Latin as sicarii, meaning violent men or dagger men (sing. sicarius, possibly a morphological reanalysis), because of their policy of killing Jews opposed to their call for war against Rome. Perhaps many Zealots were sicarii simultaneously, and they may be the biryonim of the Talmud that were feared even by the Jewish sages of the Mishnah. According to historian Hayim Hillel Ben-Sasson, the Sicarii, originally based in Galilee, were fighting for a social revolution, while the Jerusalem Zealots placed less stress on the social aspect and the Sicarii never attached themselves to one particular family and never proclaimed any of their leaders king. Both groups objected to the way the priestly families were running the Temple.

      Mossad: Short for HaMossad leModiʿin uleTafkidim Meyuḥadim, is the national intelligence agency of Israel. It is one of the main entities in the Israeli Intelligence Community, along with Aman and Shin Bet.

      Masada: Is an ancient fortress in southern Israel’s Judean Desert. It's on a massive plateau overlooking the Dead Sea. The fortifications, built around 30 B.C, are among the ruins are King Herod's Palace, which sprawls over 3 rock terraces, and a Roman-style bathhouse with mosaic floors. The Masada Museum has archaeological exhibits and recreations of historical scenes.

      Katsa: A katsa is a field intelligence officer of the Mossad, the national intelligence agency of Israel. A katsa collects information and runs agents, similar to a case officer of the CIA.

      Espionage: The act of obtaining secret or confidential information without the permission of the holder of the information. Spies help agencies uncover secret information. Any individual or spy ring (a cooperating group of spies), in the service of a government, company or independent operation, can commit espionage. The practice is clandestine, as it

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