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A report published by the Independent Turkish website stated that Mossad He witnessed many scandals and failed assassination attempts that pitted Israel against many countries, including the United States.
The report added that the case of the prominent official in the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation) Khaled Mishal It is one of the most prominent milestones in Mossad’s failure.
Despite the existence of a peace agreement between Jordan and Israel, members of the Mossad’s Kidon unit wanted to assassinate Meshaal, who at that time did not hold a leadership position within the movement.
When the Mossad team arrived in Jordan in September 1997, Israel was ruled by Benjamin Netanyahu, who had been elected prime minister a few months earlier.
The writer added that Netanyahu wanted the operation to be secret, so a scientist working for the Mossad suggested using a new poison that kills on contact and cannot be detected in an autopsy. Indeed, the proposal was accepted.
But the operation failed and the agents were arrested by the Jordanian police. The failed assassination attempt caused an uproar between the governments of Israel and Jordan, and relations between the two countries became tense.
Yossi Cohen
Australian businessman James Packer received from Cohen a gift of $20,000 at his daughter’s wedding, and again provided a high-paying job guarantee in Dubai for his daughter through the UAE government.
The Turkish newspaper’s report indicated that Cohen, the head of the Mossad at the time, was not only interested in his daughter. Which got him into trouble, especially when news of his secret relationship with a stewardess spread.
An investigative report issued in 2021 revealed that Cohen disclosed state secrets to the flight attendant, with whom he was in a relationship, and her husband, Guy Sheker, at the time.
Sheker said that Cohen was sending letters to his wife in which he addressed her as “my princess” and “my beauty,” and that he shouted at the Mossad director, saying: “You are now destroying a family.” Sheker also conveyed some details about Cohen’s management style in the Mossad.
Cohen rejected these accusations and said that he never shared any security secrets or information that should not be shared.
A Moroccan waiter was killed
Mossad agents wanted to arrest Ali Hassan Salama, the leader of Black September, whom they held responsible for the 1972 Munich operation when Israeli hostages were taken during the Summer Olympics.
The main Mossad scandal was in Norway; The Mossad killed Ahmed Bouchikhi, a Moroccan waiter, believing he was Ali Hassan Salama.
Mossad unit commander Mike Harari and some members of his team managed to escape, but 6 agents were arrested by the Norwegian police and charged with murder, and the agents confessed in court to embarrassing details about Mossad’s secret activities and assassination methods.
Killing civilians
Five years after the scandal of the murder of the Moroccan waiter, Ahmed Bouchikhi, the Mossad continued to pursue Ali Hassan Salama, and on January 22, 1979, the Israelis rented a Volkswagen car, filled it with explosives, and placed it on a road that Salama often passes through in Beirut.
When Salama’s Chevrolet passed next to the Volkswagen, the car exploded using a radio device. The explosion killed Salama and his companions who were following him in a Land Rover, in addition to 9 other people.
Yes, Israel achieved its goal, but among the dead there were many civilians as well.
Jonathan Pollard
The newspaper’s report stated that in 1985, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Jonathan Pollard, a former US Naval Intelligence analyst, on charges of spying for Israel.
The report explained that Pollard provided thousands of secret documents to the Mossad, and it was said that some of them were transferred to other countries as well. The incident caused a major division between Israel and the United States.
Pollard provided Israel with countless information about the Middle East and other countries, was paid for his services for 18 months, and was promised asylum if he was found out.
However, when FBI agents began tracking Pollard and his wife, the couple fled to the Israeli embassy in Washington to seek political asylum. However, they were taken out of the embassy and arrested on November 21, 1985.
