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Yossi Cohen | Jun. 11, 2021

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Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar speaks at an election night watch party, in St. Paul, Minnesota, Nov. 3, 2020
Rep. Ilhan Omar ‘Clarifies’ Comments After 12 Jewish House Members Blast ‘False Equivalencies’ Between Israel and US, Hamas and Taliban

Jun. 11 -...There is no evidence that the signatories to the letter have harassed Omar, and the letter made no mention of Islam.

In 2019, antisemitic comments from Omar about US support for Israel prompted bipartisan condemnations from members of Congress and ultimately a House resolution denouncing antisemitism.

Israel critic and Omar ally Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) also attacked the signatories of the letter, asserting that they were “demonizing” Omar and that “their obsession with policing her is sick.     source from

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This picture released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on July 27, 2017, claims to show the launching of a Simorgh satellite-carrying rocket at an undisclosed location in Iran.
Russia is preparing to supply Iran with an advanced satellite system that will boost Tehran’s ability to surveil military targets, officials say


Jun. 11 - Russia is preparing to supply Iran with an advanced satellite system that will give Tehran an unprecedented ability to track potential military targets across the Middle East and beyond, according to current and former U.S. and Middle Eastern officials briefed on details of the arrangement.

The plan would deliver to the Iranians a Russian-made Kanopus-V satellite equipped with a high-resolution camera that would greatly enhance Iran’s spying capabilities, allowing continuous monitoring of facilities ranging from Persian Gulf oil refineries and Israeli military bases to Iraqi barracks that house U.S. troops, the officials said. The launch could happen within months, they said.

While the Kanopus-V is marketed for civilian use, Iranian military officials have been heavily involved in the acquisition, and leaders of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have made multiple trips to Russia since 2018 to help negotiate the terms of the agreement, the officials said. As recently as this spring, Russian experts traveled to Iran to help train ground crews that would operate the satellite from a newly built facility near the northern city of Karaj, the officials said...     more
Career

Cohen was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in 1979. He volunteered as a paratrooper in the Paratroopers Brigade. He served as a soldier and a squad leader.[7] After being discharged, he studied at university in London, and joined the Mossad in 1982. Cohen has been described as 'able to inspire the confidence of his charges'.[8] He became a case officer, charged with recruiting and handling spies in foreign nations. While in training, he had been the only religious candidate in the Mossad's case officer course at the time.[6] He ran agents in a number of countries over his career, and rose to lead the Mossad's collections division ("Tsomet").[9] From 2011 to 2013, he was the deputy director of the Mossad,[10] serving under Tamir Pardo. He was known publicly as "Y" (Hebrew: "י") in this post.[11] Cohen won the prestigious Israel Security Prize for his Mossad work.[12]

In August 2013 he was appointed the National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of Israel. In December 2015, Cohen was appointed to succeed Tamir Pardo as director of Mossad.[13][14] and assumed office in January 2016. Cohen is one of the closest officials to Netanyahu.[15]


In January 2018, Cohen oversaw the Mossad operation to steal Iran's secret nuclear archive in Tehran and smuggle it out of the country.[15] According to the Jerusalem Post, a map of nuclear sites captured in the operation has not yet been made public.[15] Among the assassinations attributed to the Mossad during Cohen's tenure were those of Hamas drone expert Mohamed Zouari in Tunisia, Hamas rocket expert Fadi Mohammad al-Batsh in Malaysia, and Iranian nuclear program chief Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in Iran.[16][17][18]

Cohen has also been the chief Israeli official in charge of managing Israel's largely clandestine relations with various Arab nations. He has often met with representatives of EgyptJordan, the United Arab EmiratesSaudi Arabia, and Qatar and helped negotiate Netanyahu's visit to Oman in 2018. Reportedly, he met Sudan's chief of intelligence, though the Sudanese intelligence service denied it. He was Israel's chief negotiator in arranging the Israel–United Arab Emirates peace agreement.[19][20][21]

Intelligence reporter Ronen Bergman has written that Cohen has a reputation as a tough boss, that he speaks fluent EnglishFrench, and Arabic,[22] and is also a marathon runner.[23] Cohen is nicknamed "the Model"[24] for his stylish appearance.[8]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly considers Cohen to be the best person to succeed him as Prime Minister when he leaves office.[15] In September 2019, The Jerusalem Post listed Cohen as the most influential Jew of the year.     from Wikipedia
Ex-Mossad chief signals Israel behind Iran nuclear attacks

Jun. 11 - The outgoing chief of Israel's Mossad intelligence service has offered the closest acknowledgment yet his country was behind recent attacks targeting Iran s nuclear program and a military scientist.

The comments by Yossi Cohen speaking to Israel's Channel 12 investigative program “Uvda” in a segment aired Thursday night, offered an extraordinary debriefing by the head of the typically secretive agency in what appears to be the final days of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s rule.

It also gave a clear warning to other scientists in Iran's nuclear program that they too could become targets for assassination even as diplomats in Vienna try to negotiate terms to try to salvage its atomic accord with world powers...     more

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