Mossad

{{Audio|He-Mossad.ogg|Ha-Mossad le-Modi'in ule-Tafkidim Meyuhadim}} (Hebrew: המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים, "Institute for Intelligence and Special Assignments") is an Israeli intelligence agency, commonly referred to as Mossad. It is responsible for intelligence collection, covert action (including paramilitary activities and assassinations) and counter-terrorism. Its focus is on Arab nations and organizations throughout the world.

Famous Mossad operations

• Location and capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann
• Assisting in Operation Moses, the immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
• Assassination of those responsible for the Munich massacre at the 1972 Olympic Games and the Lillehammer affair.
• Kidnapping of Mordechai Vanunu in Italy
• Providing highly sensitive information about Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor, destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in 1981.
• Providing intelligence for Israeli military operations, thousands of miles away from Israel, for instance, for Operation Entebbe.
• Providing intelligence for the assassination of Abu Jihad by Israeli commandos (unverified but widely believed)
• The assassination of Gerald Bull (unverified but widely believed)