Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is an Israeli politician,serving as the prime minister of Israel since 2022,having previously held the office in 1996–1999 and 2009–2021. He is chair of the Likud party. Netanyahu is the longest-serving prime minister in Israel's history,having served a total of over 16 years.
A Palestinian suicide bombing at a pizzeria in downtown Jerusalem on 9 August 2001 killed 16 people,including seven children and a pregnant woman. A further 130 were wounded. The attack occurred during the Second Intifada.
Uzi Landau is an Israeli politician and systems analyst. He served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 1984 and 2006,and for Yisrael Beiteinu between 2009 and 2015. He also held several ministerial posts,including Minister of Public Security,Minister in the Prime Minister's Office,Minister of Energy and Water Resources and Minister of Tourism.
Efraim Halevy is an Israeli intelligence expert and diplomat. He was the 9th director of the Mossad and the 3rd head of the Israeli National Security Council.
Yoav Gallant is an Israeli politician and retired military general. A member of the Knesset for Likud,he has served as Minister of Defense since 2022.
Gilad Shalit is a former MIA soldier of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) who,on 25 June 2006,was captured by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid via tunnels near the Israeli border. Hamas held him captive for over five years until his release on 18 October 2011 as part of a prisoner exchange deal.
Ron Arad,was an Israeli Air Force weapon systems officer (WSO) who has officially been classified as missing in action since October 1986. Arad was lost on a mission over Lebanon and is believed to have been captured by the militant group Amal and later handed over to Hezbollah.
The Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations,popularly known as Mossad,is the national intelligence agency of the State of Israel. It is one of the main entities in the Israeli Intelligence Community,along with Aman and Shin Bet.
Tamir Pardo is the former Director of Mossad,taking over the role from Meir Dagan on January 1,2011. The appointment was announced by Israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on November 29,2010. He served in the role from 2011 until 2016.
Dirar Abu Seesi or Abu Sisi is a Palestinian engineer. Abu Seesi was a deputy engineer for the Gaza Strip's sole electrical plant,which provides 25% of Gaza's power. According to Israel,he was also a weapons engineer for the Palestinian Hamas organization. In February 2011,he traveled to Ukraine,his wife's native country,to apply for citizenship,after coming to believe that Gaza was no longer a safe place to raise his six children. He disappeared in Poltava on February 19,and later turned up in an Israeli prison after being kidnapped by Mossad Israeli intelligence personnel. On April 4,2011 he was indicted for his work for Hamas and was convicted on March 30,2015 in a plea bargain. He is known by Israeli security services as the "father of the rockets".
The 2006 Gaza cross-border raid,known by Palestinian militants as Operation Dispersive Illusion was an armed incursion carried out by seven or eight Gazan Palestinian militants on 25 June 2006 who attacked Israel Defense Forces (IDF) positions near the Kerem Shalom Crossing through an attack tunnel. In the attack,two IDF soldiers and two Palestinian militants were killed,four IDF soldiers were wounded,one of whom was Gilad Shalit,who was captured and taken to the Gaza Strip.
The Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange,also known as Wafa al-Ahrar,followed a 2011 agreement between Israel and Hamas to release Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for 1,027 prisoners —almost all Palestinians and Arab-Israelis,although there were also a Ukrainian,a Jordanian and a Syrian. Of these,280 had been sentenced to life in prison for planning and perpetrating various attacks against Israeli targets.
The Ilan Grapel affair was an alleged Israeli espionage incident in Egypt involving dual U.S.-Israeli citizen Ilan Grapel. On 12 June 2011,Egyptian authorities arrested Grapel on charges of fomenting unrest in Egypt as a Mossad agent in the wake of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. While Israel and Grapel's friends and family firmly rejected the charges,the Egyptian government provided evidence to support its claim.
Abdullah Ghaleb Barghouti is a Palestinian leading commander in Hamas' armed wing,the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades,in the West Bank. He was also one of the organization's chief bomb makers. Barghouti is currently serving 67 life-term sentences in Israeli prison.
Zuhair al-Qaisi,also known by his nom de guerre Abu Ibrahim,was a Palestinian politician who was the secretary general of the Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza. He was killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
Gershon Baskin is an Israeli columnist,social and political activist,and a researcher of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and peace process. In 2022-2023,,Baskin was running three separate secret back channels between significant Israelis and Palestinians mainly looking toward the "day after" political changes would take place in Israel and Palestine.
Yosef "Yossi" Meir Cohen is an Israeli intelligence officer.
Khaled Mashal is a Palestinian politician who served as chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from 1996 until May 2017,where he was succeeded by Ismail Haniyeh. He was regarded as one of the most prominent leaders of Hamas since the death of Ahmed Yassin,alongside Ismail Haniyeh.
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