Review: The thrilling story of Israel’s secret service and how it all began in Matti Friedman’s new book GlobeArts
Before Israel was a country and before its spy service earned a fearsome reputation for covert operations, a small group of volunteers was sequestered on a kibbutz to train in the arts of espionage and concealment. After a rudimentary training course, they were sent out into the Arab world in the period just before the founding of the state and remained there during the ensuing Arab-Israeli war of 1948.
From a news kiosk in Beirut, they transmitted intelligence back to their handlers that Friedman describes as not world-changing, but quietly valuable. So valuable, in fact, that Friedman says it was one of the only effective intelligence tools the Jews had in that period – eyes behind enemy lines. So much of the modern Middle East was shaped by the events swirling around the men of the Arab section, but as Friedman points out, they knew relatively little about it, including the country for which they were risking their lives. In many cases, they had never actually spent a day in what, since their departure, had become the state of Israel.
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