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Efraim Halevy

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Director of Mossad from 1998 to 2002.

Author of Man in the Shadows: Inside the Middle East Crisis with a Man who Led the Mossad (2006).

Efraim Halevy's articles

Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 9: ‘He asked who I was representing Amman or Israel?’...

By Efraim Halevy
 Efraim Halevy joined the Mossad in 1961 and became Director of the organisation from 1998 to 2002. He... Read more > November 2025

Book Review | War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East

By Efraim Halevy
 Gershom Gorenberg, a historian and journalist, has spent years researching and writing this account of dramatic events in... Read more > November 2021

Israel70 | Israel’s grand strategy and the return of Russia as a Great Power

By Efraim Halevy
 Former head of Mossad Efraim Halevy presents a sweeping overview of Israel’s strategic situation. He argues that the... Read more > May 2018

Balfour 100 | ‘Mack’: Aaron Aaronsohn, the NILI intelligence network and the Balfour Declaration

By Efraim Halevy
 NILI – an acronym for the biblical Hebrew phrase, Netzakh Yisrael Lo Yeshaker, meaning ‘The Eternal One of... Read more > Summer 2017

‘There is no policy, we are on the edge of a volcano’: an interview with Efraim Halevy

By Efraim Halevy
 Efraim Halevy was Director of Mossad from 1998 to 2002. Alan Johnson is the editor of Fathom. They... Read more > Winter 2015

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