Assassination
Yasir Arafat Eluded Israel’s Assassination Attempts For Decades
Many in the country’s intelligence apparatus quoted the Talmud: “If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.”
Did Hamas Plot To Kill Avigdor Lieberman?
Israel has arrested four Palestinians suspected of planning to kill Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman with an anti-tank rocket while he drove to his Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, Israeli officials say.
Ukraine Presidential Frontrunner Petro Poroshenko and His Secret Jewish Roots
Oligarch Petro Poroshenko carries the hopes of many Ukrainian Jews going into this weekend’s crucial election. Does the frontrunner also have Jewish roots?
Jewish Ukrainian Mayor Regains Consciousness in Israeli Hospital
The Jewish mayor of Ukraine’s second-largest city regained consciousness in an Israeli hospital following what is believed to be an assassination…
Pro-Russia Jewish Mayor Critically Wounded in Ukraine Assaassination Try
The Jewish mayor of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine was shot in a suspected assassination attempt that left him in critical condition.
Jackie O's Jewish Knight
The 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination places Jackie Kennedy Onassis front and center. Masha Leon looks back at her protector: Orthodox Jew Maurice Tempelsman.
Lee Harvey Oswald and the Jews
Before he killed John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald lived in the Soviet Union where the people he met were mostly Jews, even if their Jewishness had been warped by the dictatorship.
Australia Demands Answers on Prisoner X Mossad Spy Case From Israel
Australia’s Foreign Minister Bob Carr on Monday called for a full explanation from Israel on the circumstances leading up to the death of Australian-born alleged Mossad agent Ben Zygier, known as Prisoner X, in an Israeli prison in 2010.
Prisoner X Bungled Hezbollah Double Agent Spy Drama: Reports
A reputed Israeli spy known as Prisoner X who died in a jail in Israel in 2010 had been arrested after a bungled and unauthorised bid to recruit a double agent with links to Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Australian newspapers reported on Monday.
Prisoner X Suspected of Handing Israeli Agents to Hezbollah: Report
Alleged Mossad agent Ben Zygier, known as Prisoner X before committing suicide while jailed solitary confinement, handed Hezbollah sensitive information that led to the arrest of Lebanese agents in Israel’s service, according to previews of an expose to be released by Der Spiegel on Monday.