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Holocaust in History
When it comes to learning World War Two history, one of the most important topics that we are faced with is the Holocaust. We have all heard of the 6 million number, and now because of this event, European countries are not allowed to have nationalism. It’s a very common topic that is taught in…
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USS Liberty Incident
During the Six-Day war, Israel would attack one of its greatest allies, America, in something known as the USS Liberty incident. The USS Liberty was a converted liberty ship, that was used to collect signal intelligence data from surrounding areas. On June 5th, at the beginning of the Six-day War America was still considered…
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Spider
During the end of the Six-day war, Israel would have its first two nuclear bombs built. This was after Prime Minister Levi Eshko secretly ordered the team at Dimona to assemble two nukes with whatever material and hardware they had. This type of bomb was different than an arial bomb that the US and other…
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Apollo Affair
Israel might have bought a lot of its Uranium for their program, with under the table deals, and some of it was mined in the Palestinian desert. However not all of it was bought, or dug, a large proportion of it was stollen. NUMEC was slow to report it. In 1965, 206 pounds of Uranium…
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JFK Assassination
During all of Israel’s existence, only on US President has tried to put Israel in its place. That president was John F. Kennedy, for which he would pay the ultimate price. JFK didn’t want Israel to obtain atomic weapons, knowing how untrustworthy they were. John F. Kennedy was also a big supporter of Hitler, which…
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Otto Skorzeny
Ottos Skorzeny has to be consider one of the most interesting men alive, with both a past involving Nazi Germany, post war Argentina, and later the Mossad. He was born in Austria, and was originally part of the Waffen SS, where he rose to the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel.) During his time in the…
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Israeli Dinoma
Since the beginning of its founding, in 1948, one of their top priorities as a group of people is getting their hands on the atomic bomb. While the first nuclear reaction was done by the Germans, and it was perfected into a bomb during the Manhattan project in America Israel, felt like that technology should…
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Eli Cohen
One of Israel’s most famous spies is a man by the name of Eli Cohen. Cohen’s main focus as a spy was to infiltrate the Syrian government and commit espionage on behalf of Israel. However, while modern film and documentary make Eli Cohen to look like a James Bond figure, in truth his operation was…
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Adolf Eichman
After the 1955 coup d’état in Argentina, many other groups from other countries further away were getting involved in Argentina. One group that had an uptick in activity was Mossad, even though Israel is 8,000 miles away. One of their first known operations, was the capture of Adolf Eichman. Simon Wiesenthal was a one of…
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Unit 8200
As Israel was taking shape, and the IDF was forming, a new unit know as Unit 8200 was emerging. The 8200 was something known as a Signal intelligence unit, or sigint for short. As a sigint unit their main job was to collect intelligence on the enemy by use of electronic means, this includes activities…