"Israeli Military Intelligence" – with IDF Brig. General (Res.) Yossi Kuperwasser
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Summary

Yossi Kuperwasser (Twitter); Website)) joins Andrew (Twitter); LinkedIn)) to discuss the Israeli intelligence community. Yossi is the former head of the Research Division of IDF Military Intelligence.

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What You’ll Learn

Intelligence

• The layout of Israeli intelligence

• The First and Second Intifadas

• Israel’s complicated position in the Middle East

• Relationship between Israeli and American ICs

Reflections

• Intelligence as a learning process

• The importance and difficulty of trust

And much, much more …

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Quote of the Week

*“That's the problem of intelligence - It's an ongoing learning process. And if you don't learn all the time to enable you to adjust to the developing situation, you are going to fail.” – *Yossi Kuperwasser.

**Resources **

SpyCasts

- The Counterterrorism and Counter WMD Strategist) with Dexter Ingram (2022)

- Son of Hamas, Spy for Israel) with Mosab Hassan Yousef and Gonen Ben Yitzhak (2010)

- Israeli Intelligence and the Jonathan Pollard Spy Case) with Ron Olive (2007)

Beginner Resources

- History of Israel), Encyclopedia Britannica [encyclopedia entry]

- What you need to know about the 1987 Intifada), PBS (2019) [article]

- The Oslo Accords, 25 Years Later), Washington Post (2018) [video]

- 1967 War: Six Days that Changed the Middle East,) J. Bowen, *BBC *(2017) [article]

- The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Brief, Simple History), *Vox *(2016) [video]

Wildcard Resource(s)

- The Little Drummer Girl) – A fictional novel about a double agent working for the Israelis, written by famed spy author John le Carré in 1983. 

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