From the documentary "Advocate" about Lea Tsemel. How much does that power disturb you? “To a certain extent we were left behind,” he tells Haaretz, about the timing of the series. “You’ve also answered the question as to why it isn’t logical that only one person decides about what will happen vis-à-vis the Mossad. We were more interested in knowing who the Mossad agents are and about the system of relationships within which they operate. “They are willing to do it but aren’t used to talking about it. After Israel's internal security agency Shin Bet said its spy agency would collect information about citizens to fight the spread of the deadly coronavirus, reports have emerged that Mossad will bring in 100,000 virus kits and was planning to import millions more. For example, the series links the post-war reparations agreement between Israel and Germany, which aroused powerful opposition in Israel, to then-Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion’s decision to catch Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. In the series we did on the Yom Kippur War, ‘The Avoidable War,’ people sat in the studio and wept, fell apart. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler from the Israel Democracy Institute think-tank said the Shin Bet's cellphone tracking abilities were limited and flawed, adding that the use of the spy agency provided a "false sense of security" and was a "privacy violation". We Insist: A Timeline Of Protest Music In 2020. We could have done an episode about Eichmann, about Marwan or about [Hamas leader] Khaled Meshal – there’s no problem with inflating things – but instead we tried to create a road map with stations that represent something about the overall activity of the Mossad.”, Asked if he was not concerned that his production would become a marketing tool for the Mossad, which has to approve stories for broadcast, the filmmaker says, “We also dealt with the agency’s mistakes, we didn’t only praise them. Israel's spy agency, Mossad, stole a trove of documents from a warehouse in Tehran, Iran, in one of its most brazen missions. Israeli lawmakers raised privacy concerns and the Supreme Court halted the program, ruling that a law must be passed for it to continue. On the recommendation of current Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi, “The Avoidable War,” about the failures of the Yom Kippur War, has become compulsory viewing in the army’s officers training school. Are Israel's Most Sensitive Military Operations Top Secret? The latest addition is “Le’einav Bilvad” (“For His Eyes Only: The Politics of the Mossad”), created by filmmaker Amit Goren and veteran defense commentator Amir Oren (formerly of Haaretz), which has aired locally on Yes Docu, is now available on Yes VOD and will be streamed next year by Netflix. To what extent do you stand behind this film? What new information did you hope to add? Israel's Government Wants Spy Agency To Resume COVID-19 Tracing. The move is the latest in months of wrangling over the controversial policy, which was approved by the government at the height of the country's COVID-19 outbreak but then blocked by Israel's top court pending new legislation. But Netanyahu convened his government Wednesday to urge lawmakers to pass a law enshrining the Shin Bet's surveillance program. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? That’s why I didn’t agree to be part of the process of starting this thing.”. Even in crime organizations, with a godfather, the big decisions are made in committees. The time has come to ask what’s legitimate and what’s possible.”. I hope that this series will contribute to the need to ask the questions. “The job of the foundations is to support Israeli artists who live under Israeli sovereignty, who have Israeli ID cards,” says Goren. Published on 19.12.2019. The measure passed an initial vote in parliament later in the day. What do you think about initiating the regional foundation in the West Bank? She said the Shin Bet program is intrusive and undemocratic. And still, the historical crossroads that you refer to in the series – including the case of Ashraf Marwan, who warned Israel about the Yom Kippur War, or the assassination of Hamas’ Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai – have already been told more than once. But the hermetically sealed world of Israel’s five veteran cinema foundations, including Makor, was recently cracked open to a great degree with the decision of Culture Minister Miri Regev to open three additional regional funds: one in the north, one in the south and one in the northern West Bank. It’s a game we’re playing here, of trying to hold onto the rope at both ends. But following two weeks that have seen growing numbers of Israelis infected with the virus, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to table the bill. Goren: “We tried to look beyond the known things. It’s possible that tomorrow morning the prime minister will wake up and be influenced from some direction or another, initiating an activity that causes everyone to forget his own problems and impacting reality. Maybe through this series people will also understand the difficulty of being a Mossad agent.”. Amit Goren, 52, is an admired documentary filmmaker who graduated with honors from New York University’s Film and Television Department in 1983 and a year later won the Ministry of Education Prize for Excellence in Cinema. The Mossad psychologist who is interviewed, Mili Nahari, says that on her door in the agency it didn’t say ‘psychologist.’ You don’t go to a psychologist when you’re in the Mossad.”. To do so, the agency employed counterterrorism technology it usually uses to spy on Palestinians. In recent times, the top brass at the Mossad and their agents have become guests of honor on television news broadcasts, investigative shows and documentary programs. It’s possible that with the Mossad [something like that] will take another 20 to 30 years. It’s a kind of therapy, to be heard and to hear his voice speaking. He cited the technologies used in counterterrorism operations in his argument against legislating the program, according to Israeli Channel 12 News, which obtained a leaked recording of the Cabinet meeting. As Israel faces a new surge of coronavirus cases, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing to restart a controversial cellphone contact-tracing program put on hold this month. Is it possible that we’ve lost the ability to ask tough questions about these organizations? "I hope we won't even have to use" the agency, he said. The Mossad approved a considerable number of interviews for it – but in the middle of production Goren’s wife, curator Sarit Shapira, succumbed to cancer and, as a widower and father of three, Goren was forced to freeze his work and reorganize his life. "Using the secret service to use mass surveillance of the population is very, very extreme, unprecedented, and puts Israel, I would say, among the nondemocracies," Shwartz Altshuler told NPR. Netanyahu has acknowledged the privacy concerns but argues that the health threat level justified the measures. Most of them were in disguise; with about three of them, barely anyone knew who they really were.”. These include veteran investigative journalist Ilana Dayan’s long interview last year with former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo, Alon Ben David’s Channel 13 program on the intelligence agency, and a series of episodes as part of the Kan public broadcaster’s “Zman Emet” (“Real Time”), which tried to dispel the fog surrounding several of the organization’s operations. 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In other countries, such as Germany, the prime minister doesn’t decide by himself about important espionage activities. A second and third vote will then be needed in the 120-seat legislature, expected next week. What exists is that we [i.e., Israelis] are there as citizens and those who are occupied aren’t there as citizens. I think it’s excellent and it does what it should do. The discussion surrounding it is somewhat superficial. "Contagion has already crossed the 400-person (daily) threshold, and unfortunately indicates a continued rise" in novel coronavirus cases, he said Wednesday ahead of a cabinet vote on the move. All Rights Reserved. Since then it has confirmed more than 21,730 cases, including 308 deaths. 'The Spy': Netflix, Sacha Baron Cohen and the Mossad. Sami Sockol contributed to this story from Jerusalem. We expected it to cause an uproar but not such a huge one. Mossad chief Efraim Halevy (second from right) with Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin, U.S. President Bill Clinton and King Hussein of Jordan in Amman in 1994. “That includes all the opinions, religions and cultures within the borders of the State of Israel. I personally am not impressed by the Mossad. When we went back to working on it, we discovered that the programs that had aired in the interim were mainly about operations and achievements, about the mysterious Mossad agent. It’s not in their DNA to sit and tell you what they did in some operation or other. Removing the Mask From Israel’s Famed Mossad Spy Agency . Posted at Jun 25 2020 07:21 AM | Updated as of Jun 25 2020 07:22 AM. AboutCareersPrivacyTermsContact UsAdvertise With Us, Israel moves to redeploy spy agency to track surging virus cases, ANC,israel,coronavirus,covid-19,Shin Bet,surveillance,virus tracking,benjamin netanyahu,privacy, To track coronavirus, Israel moves to tap secret trove of cellphone data, Israel spy agency must stop virus phone tracking: committee. Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images Israeli officials have also proposed Bluetooth-enabled wristbands for the estimated 3.6 million Israelis who do not carry cellphones. From March to May, the Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency tracked Israelis' cellphone location data and notified those who may have crossed paths with a coronavirus carrier to self-isolate at home. “Of course as a documentary filmmaker you want to thrust your hands into the body, take out the heart and look at it, but you don’t always manage to do that. He has said the Shin Bet's expertise is needed for at least several weeks until a civilian-built cellphone app in development is ready to launch. hide caption. To this list we can add Channel 8’s documentary mini-series, “Inside the Mossad” by Zadok (Duki) Dror, which was sold to Netflix and centers around a Mossad agent, his clandestine misdeeds and tortured soul; the recent Netflix series “Eli,” which focused on Eli Cohen, who spied for Israel in Syria; and the popular Channel 12 program “Kfulim” (“False Flag”), which during its two seasons scattered a little more fairy dust over the familiar mixture: false identities, beautiful women and an aura of mystery. When I viewed it during various stages of production, I realized that it creates ambivalence – sometimes you agree with Lea Tsemel and sometimes you don’t. If you look at the logo of the Makor Foundation, you’ll see it’s written in Hebrew, Arabic and English; our website is also in three languages. The government chose to not to push forward with legislation and the measure was discontinued on June 10 as infection rates dropped.
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