The first to grasp how sensitive Israeli public opinion was on the issue of hostages and M.I.A.'s - and therefore what a powerful weapon abduction could be - was Ahmed Jibril, the leader of a faction of the Popular Front… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
I have covered Israeli hostage and M.I.A. cases for more than 15 years, including the covert ways in which Israel's powerful espionage agencies operate to bring soldiers home alive or dead. Over that time, the issue has come to dominate… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
For years, Israeli and American intelligence agencies assumed that if Iran were to gain the ability to build a bomb, it would be a… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
What the Shin Bet did in the Bus 300 affair is no less than declaring a revolt. They took the methods of manipulation, disinformation,… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
Israel has good reason to be concerned about its intelligence making its way to Moscow: Russia is a major player in the war in… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
Around A.D. 930, the sages in Tiberias assembled all 24 holy books and completed the writing of the codex, the first definitive Tanakh, or… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
Israel and the United States have been locked in a mutually necessary and beneficial intelligence-sharing relationship for more than 60 years. — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
In 2005, the last year of his life, Ahmad Abu Adass was 22 and still living with his parents in Beirut, Lebanon. He was… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
Like Iran and Syria supplied Hezbollah with sophisticated anti-tank rockets - Matisse, Cornet, and other RPGs that caused great damage to Israeli tanks and… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
For a thousand years after the Dead Sea Scrolls were written, the Jewish holy scriptures - the five parts of the Torah and 19… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
There are some episodes in the history of Israel that are still kept under the strongest secrecy thick veil possible. Some of them are… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
Many casinos in the United States already use facial recognition software to identify undesirables, apparently with a fair degree of success. — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
Even though intense focus on Iran's nuclear program has presumably increased the volume of intelligence gathered about it, it remains true that intelligence officers… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
Israel has the right to defend itself, especially against the huge numbers of Iranian long-range missiles pouring into the Gaza Strip from Iran via… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
