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New Mossad chief hints at more assassinations, attacks against Iran

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Published: 4 June 2021

Last updated: 4 March 2024

At swearing-in ceremony, David Barnea says Israel would not be passive simply because the majority of the world was willing to look the other way

New Mossad chief hints at more assassinations, attacks against Iran (Jerusalem Post)
Israel would not be passive simply because the majority of the world was willing to look the other way on Iran’s nuclear program

New Mossad chief: Even as it negotiates, Iran working toward ‘dream’ of nukes (Times of Israel)
Speaking at swearing-in ceremony, David Barnea says Tehran seeking ‘an international guise of protection’ as it takes strides ‘toward a weapons of mass destruction program’

Gantz slams Netanyahu over threat that Israel will ignore US on Iran (Jerusalem Post)
Gantz, who heads to the Pentagon this week, urged the prime minister to keep disagreements behind closed doors

Netanyahu threatens to ‘eliminate’ the Iranian threat, but the Biden administration knows it’s just talk (Haaretz)
It’s hard to imagine Netanyahu forcing a military action amid a political fight that might end with his defeat this time; Gantz heads to Washington, but it has nothing to do with Iran

New Mossad chief’s mission: depoliticization (Haaretz)

Photo: New Mossad chief David Barnea (centre) and outgoing leader Yossi Cohen on June 1 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

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