Middle East, Political, Israel & Palestine, Intelligence & Espionage, Middle Eastern, National & International Security, Military, Political Science 

This is the story of Reuven Shiloah - the man who established the Mossad, and laid the foundations for the intelligence community of the State of Israel. Although he was head of the Mossad for only two years, from its inception in April 1951 until his resignation in March 1953, Shiloah was considered an institution in himself, and through the organization that he created, he left his imprint on Israeli intelligence, playing a critical role in the complex and crisis-laden history of the establishment of Israel's formidable intelligence network. Shiloah manoeuvred his way around the grey world of undercover negotiations for three decades, from his induction at the beginning of the 1930s to his untimely death in 1959 at the age of 49. The book is based on private archives and interviews with people who worked closely with Shiloah both in Israel and abroad.
This book is the most comprehensive portrayal of one of Israel’s most esoteric characters. While this portrait will enlighten and often surprise even wee-versed readers of early Israel history, the enigma of Reuven Shiloah undoubtedly lives on.
This edition includes a new forward by Yoav Gelber, as well as the original foreward by former president of Israel, Haim Herzog, from the Hebrew edition.
 

This is the story of Reuven Shiloah - the man who established the Mossad, and laid the foundations for the intelligence community of the State of Israel. The book is based on private archives, and interviews with people who worked closely with Shiloah both in Israel and abroad. - from Amzon 

Contents

PART ONE – THE POWER OF THE TRIANGLE
1. ‘In’ or ‘not in’……………………………………………………….......................p. 3
2. Friends and enemies………………………………………………….................p. 20
3. The ‘tripartite cooperation’ against the mufti……………………….......p. 29

PART TWO – COOPERATION AND DISAPPOINTMENT
4. ‘Covert Cooperation’ in the Defense of the Country…………………...P. 41
5. The Danger Draws Near And Fade Away…………………………….........P. 52
6. The Parachuting Operation- Between Evasion and Escape………….P. 59
7. ‘An Element of Evil’…………………………………………………....................P. 71
8. ‘We Need an Intelligence Service’……………………………………............P. 81

PART THREE - TOO MANY DUTIES
9. From Zaslany to Shiloah………………………………………………...............P. 91
10. War Three Fronts……………………………………………………....................P. 101
11. The Creation of the Mossad…………………………………………...............P. 114
12. The Talks With Abdullah…………………………………………….................P. 138
13. The Covert Connection With the United States……………………......P. 164

PART FOUR - THE TERRIBLE FIFTIES
14. Adjusting and Adapting……………………………………………..................P. 177
15. The Circle of Friends ………………………………………………....................P. 185
16. Neither Security Nor Peace………………………………………..................P. 198
17. The First Two Shots……………………………………………….....................P. 211
18. The American Failure ………………………………………………..................P. 220
19. A Crisis of ‘Deception’……………………………………………....................P. 237
20. The Rift Begins to Heal………………………………………………................P. 247

PART FIVE - THE GOOD FIFTIES
21. Back Home…………………………..................................................P. 267
22. Intergretion into Nato and the Periphery………………………………......P. 285
23. Revolution in Iraq and the Middle East………………………………........P. 295
24. ‘One Can Delight in the Fundamental Change’……………………….....P. 305
25. ‘Untill He Burned Himself Out’………………………………………..............P. 315