Alertnet (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
JERUSALEM, June 22 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday extended the tenure of the Mossad intelligence chief for a second time, testament to the hawkish spymaster's role in crafting policy on Iran and other regional foes.Meir Dagan, an army ex-general, took over Mossad in 2002 with what security sources described as a mandate to step up Israel's monitoring of Iran's...
Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
... Palestinians to release.The deal has drawn some criticism in Israel, and Mossad spy agency chief Meir Dagan voiced strong opposition during Sunday's cabinet meeting.A controversial part of the agreement is the release of Lebanese prisoner Samir Quntar, a member of the Palestine Liberation Front who is serving a 542-year sentence. In the Israeli coastal town of Nahariya, Quntar murdered...
Global Intelligence News (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
... 112 minutes. Review on Page 13. Loft. The Promotion ** R for language including sexual Mossad’s Dagan, an omen of Iran war - IranMania News LONDON, June 25 (IranMania) - Mossad director’s tenure has been extended for another year so that he could prepare for an attack on Iran, Israeli military sources say, PressTV reported. Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has decided to keep Meir...
Israelated - English Israel blogs (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
(Communicated by the Cabinet Secretariat) At the weekly Cabinet meeting today (Sunday), 22 June 2008: 1. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced that he had decided to extend the appointment of Meir Dagan as Director of the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations (the “Mossad”; http://www.mossad.gov.il/default.aspx)until the end of 2009. See http://tinyurl.com/5yo2ok for further...
Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Another sign Israel intends to act against Iran? On Sunday, Prime Minister extended the tenure of Mossad chief Meir Dagan for another year to the . He cited Dagan's 'exceptional successes,' presumably a reference to the destruction of the Syrian nuclear reactor in September among other things. The organization's list of achievements under his six years of leadership was "very impressive,"...
Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
... Noam Shalit to meet with Defense Ministry senior official Amos Gilad.*Mossad Intelligence Director Meir Dagan’s tenure has been extended to the end of 2009.*PM Olmert threatening to fire Labor Party ministers voting in favor of the bill to dissolve the current government. The bill is scheduled for a vote on Wednesday.*After 10 weeks of sanctions, state-employed social workers on Sunday...
Ynet News (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
... Barak, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, the directors of the Mossad and the Shin Bet, Meir Dagan and Yuval Diskin, respectively, and the PM's appointed envoy overseeing MIA affairs, Ofer Dekel. Information regarding Arad was not demanded in th January 2004 prisoner exchange deal, in which Hizbullah returned Elhanan Tennenbaum and the bodies of the three kidnapped IDF soldiers...
NoisyRoom.net (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
... held in Tel Aviv while Olmert was in Washington. The American visitor met with the Mossad chief Meir Dagan and defense minister Ehud Barak, following which he was due to brief President Bush over the weekend. It is self-evident to every Israeli that Iran’s acquisition of a nuclear bomb would threaten the Jewish state’s existence and no government can afford to stand by and watch it...
