In the sensitive missions, in hostile territory: this is how Israel's shadow warriors work

The foreign publications on the operation in Khan Yunis that depicted warriors who took part in it re-enact the story of women's involvement in the fighting in the service of the intelligence arms. A former security official who operated women on privileged missions said fighters have high assimilation capabilities, and in the past have led to significant operational gains

In the sensitive missions, in hostile territory: this is how Israel's shadow warriors work

Recent publications on Al-Jazeera's channel about the operation of the special force in Khan Yunis in November 2018 revealed by Hamas and including descriptions of fighters taking part in the re-enactment of the story of women's involvement in combat in the service of the Israeli intelligence community.

A former senior security official operating intelligence gathering fighters in a hostile area told Walla! NEWS that the relative advantage of fighters over fighters is the ability to assimilate in the environment optimally, "Women are less threatening in every area. The suspicion is low," the source said. "They have a high ability to maintain quality coverage. They are usually a significant part of the collection task. At this point, operational action, such as a friction task and the collection task, must be separated. A man and woman in a car or walking side by side always raise less suspicion than a pair of men. My mission did not involve pulling the trigger, but without a few pick-ups, they were much better than men. "

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"Is a significant part of the collection mission." Two women alleged to have taken part in the action at Khan Yunis

Special Force in Khan Yunis (Photo: Walla System! NEWS)

At the limit, capability is found in the service of the institution, but there are various organizations and units in which women serve. Decades ago, an attempt was made by the Border Force's Counterterrorism Unit to combine combat women to enhance the unit's operational capabilities in some areas, but the process waned very quickly. However, they did integrate with other elite police units but not undercover units. In the IDF.

The GSS has been fighting women and they have been exposed in recent years. Browsing the GSS website reveals that, on the Career Paths page, recruitment is also underway for a course of eight months in the October 2020 cycle. The Shin Bet offers them field duties and individual secret missions and staff. In the summer of 2018, 12 outstanding Shin Bet employees were hosted by the President, but most of all stood out as a senior officer in the Operations Division, with a rich history in intelligence operations and intelligence gathering and admiration. While this is a very small number of warriors, their contribution is crucial in the secret organization's tasks.

In the career paths of the Mossad website, the organization offers intelligence and specialized positions to a variety of positions for women such as collection officers, operations woman and executive wing positions. Most of all, this highlights in public the importance the secret organization attaches to women as combatants.

Many warrior names have been engulfed in history pages. Mahmoud al-Mabhouh liquidated in Dubai (Photo: Reuters)

Muhammad al-Mabhouh (Photo: Reuters)

In 2010, a prestigious Dubai Hamas hotel, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who was involved in murderous terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians was liquidated in the past decade and dealt with the smuggling of weapons from Iran into the Gaza Strip. Foreign media attributed the act of liquidation to the institution and circulated images provided by the Dubai Police to the media about suspects in the case, including women. The assassination was severely hampered by the Hamas leadership and severely hampered the efforts of the military arm's power building in the Gaza extremist organization.

Many foreign publications have linked women's names for decades to clandestine actions attributed to Israel involving the Eichmann kidnapping, the nightmare of Lebanon, a car explosion in Lebanon in 1979 by one of the athletic massacres in Munich, Operation Spring Youth, Mordechai Vanunu's Temptation, Establishing a Tourist Village in Sudan Ethiopian Jews and many other perpetrators.

Women recruited to operate in foreign countries, some enemy countries, for the purpose of gathering intelligence or taking part in offensive activities knowing that once they leave the State of Israel and take off to one of the target countries, they violate the law with clear knowledge and if captured or detained by foreign law enforcement agencies the State of Israel can To deny them. Some climbed up the positions and were single who reached the top of the institution, one of whom was appointed deputy head of the institution. A number of books were written about many of them, and many articles were published. But many warrior names have been engulfed in the pages of history despite their courage and tremendous contribution to state security.

14 years of activity: The story of the spy from Beirut

Despite the famous operations, the roots of warfare in the service of the Israeli intelligence community lie back in time long before the establishment of the state. One of the big fighters is spy Shulamit (Shula) Cohen-Kishak who passed away at the age of 100 in 2017.

Kishak, so called by Israeli intelligence experts, was born in Argentina, immigrated to Israel long before the establishment of the state, and lived with her family in Jerusalem. A film from the Intelligence Heritage Center (MLM) tells the story of her life and includes testimonies of Lebanese civilians and intelligence agencies in Israel.

Became an agent who has been able to provide quality intelligence. Spy Shlomit Cohen-Kishak

Spy Shulamit Cohen-Kishak tells of her past from a film made by her at the Intelligence Heritage Center. December 03, 2019. (Photo: screenshot, official site)

In 1946, when confronted with rioting and violence against Jews in the background, she married a Jewish-Lebanese trader and moved to the Jewish Quarter in Beirut, where she developed contacts with city francs and government centers, including the prime minister, the president and senior security officials. On the eve of the War of Independence, she worked for intelligence agencies in Israel and became an agent who was able to provide quality intelligence information on Lebanon and Syria. She later translated her strength into the activities of smuggling over a thousand Lebanese Jews and some from Syria to Israel through the sea under the watchful eyes of local security forces.

After about 14 years of shadow activity, she was arrested and arrested on suspicion of running a spy network and smuggling Jews to Israel. To pave the way for smuggling with her young children to Israel to pave the way for the other families. In the interrogation rooms, she was subjected to severe torture that included nail extraction, whiplash but was not broken. The indictment included ties with Arab countries, coup attempts, uniting organizations in different countries, later condemned by the Lebanese military tribunal, a death sentence. After prolonged legal efforts, the death penalty was converted to life in prison and then to twenty years in prison.

She was released in a prisoner exchange deal. She wrote in the newspaper about the spy's idea

She wrote in the newspaper about the capture of spy Shulamit Cohen-Kishak from the film about her story. December 03, 2019. (Photo: screenshot, official site)

In 1965, at the time of Shula's incarceration, Eli Cohen, a large Israeli leg, was captured in Syria and the same year he was executed by hanging. The Syrians insisted on taking it into their hands, but the Lebanese refused. After the Six Day War, seven years after Shula was imprisoned, she was released on a prisoner exchange deal and returned with her family to live in Jerusalem.

In the film, Shula Cohen-Kishak said in a strangled voice, "I suffered so much and yet I cannot clean everything in my children. Although I have tried with all my strength. Also to be a mother, to teach them, also to be a housewife and to be a spy." In 1992, she received the "Hide the Hide" letter on behalf of the intelligence community. The operation and its contribution to the security of the state lit a firearm in 2007. It acted like fascinating stories of other secret fighters paved the way for other fighters currently serving in the intelligence community.