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Colonel Knafo Harel, commander of the Samaria Brigade, which controls the Nablus region, says his forces have eliminated all the major Hamas leaders in the area. "They have replacements, but they're much less effective," says Harel, sitting in an army trailer high above Nablus and fielding cell-phone calls about an undercover operation in progress. "Of course, they'd like to conduct 10 bombings a day. But they don't have the power...
DIED. ISSER HAREL, 91, legendary Israeli spy and one of the founders of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence organization, which he ran from 1952 to '63; in Petah Tiqwah, Israel. During Mossad's early years, he directed the 1960 capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who had for years been living under an assumed name in Argentina and was later tried and executed in Israel. Harel recalled dragging Eichmann back to Israel and walking into Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's office with the message "I brought you a present...
DIED. ISSER HAREL, 91, Israeli spymaster who headed Mossad, the country's intelligence agency during the 1950s and early 1960s, and who masterminded the capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1960; in Petah Tikva, Israel. In the 1975 book The House on Garibaldi Street, which was made into a TV movie, Harel wrote about how he snared Eichmann. Much feared by his enemies, Harel unmasked Israel Beer, a Soviet mole who had penetrated Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's inner circle, and once made a man confess by simply saying: "I know you're a Russian...
...Prime Number 4 is the number of suicide attacks Israeli bus driver Mickey Harel has survived, including last week's car bomb that killed...
...elite Paratroop Brigade was poised outside Nablus. The 5th Brigade, scheduled for Jenin, was made up of reservists mostly in their late 20s and early 30s, but the brass thought they could handle the tough assignment. "There were indications it was going to be hard," says Major General Dan Harel, the army's operations chief. "But we didn't think it was going to be so hard." The soldiers were supposed to head for Jenin on April 1, but rain and delays in shipping equipment forced Colonel Yedidia Yehuda, the brigade's commander, to wait until Tuesday, April 2. Around...