David Barnea, the Mossad director, played a crucial role in determining when to show tactical flexibility to seal the deal with Hamas. While many remain unaware of the exact details of his actions.
Mossad Chief draws parallels between Palestinian resistance and Vietnam, as Islamic Jihad leader vows to continue the fight.
Israel, Hamas, the US, and Qatar have officially signed the hostage deal and Gaza ceasefire in Doha, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Office confirmed on Friday morning. The deal will now be presented before the security cabinet for a vote, which, however, will not occur until Saturday.
President Joe Biden and his top diplomats, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, had sought closure during his term.
After more than 15 months of fighting in their most devastating war ever, Israel and Hamas are extremely close to agreeing ... traveled to Qatar and an Israeli delegation including Mossad intelligence chief David Barnea and Ronen Bar, director of the ...
Mediators in Qatar on Monday presented the final draft of the deal to representatives from both sides, including the heads of Israel's spy agency Mossad. Hamas officials said that progress had been made over some core issues, with a conclusion due "soon ...
with high-level representatives -- among them Mossad chief David Barnea -- joining talks later as they progressed toward a conclusion. In the closing days of talks, both Israeli and Hamas ...
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Sunday named Ilan Rom, a longtime intelligence official, as the Finance Ministry's director general.
Review of The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth by Andreas Malm (Verso, 2025) Andreas Malm–the author of the work under review–is currently a professor of human ecology at Lund University in his native Sweden.
Ethiopian Jews pictured on board the Bat Galim ship on their journey to Israel in 1984. Photograph courtesy of Raffi Berg.
Israel’s decimation of Hezbollah was a significant victory for a country that, one year earlier, had suffered the greatest intelligence failure in its history, when Hamas-led fighters invaded it on Oct. 7, 2023, killed 1,139 people and took over 250 hostages.