Israel, who is the new head of the Mossad appointed by Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu announced the appointment of David “Dedi” Barnea as head of the Mossad. The article by Giuseppe Gagliano
On May 24, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the appointment of David “Dedi” Barnea (born in March 1965) as head of Mossad, Israel's external intelligence service.
He will officially take office on June 1st.
David Barnea, after serving with the Special Forces of the General Staff (Sayeret Matkal), graduated in Israel and specialized in the United States. After a brief career in the banking sector, he joined the Mossad in 1996. His responsibilities included research on Iran, the IRGC and Lebanese Hezbollah. He became Deputy Director of Service in 2019.
As early as December 2020, the Israeli Prime Minister's office announced that it had chosen a certain "D, Deputy Director". However, this appointment to be regulatory had to be approved by a legal advisor to see if Netanyahu's position as interim prime minister at the time allowed him to make this appointment.
The Mossad's commitment will continue to focus on Iran, which the Jewish state considers "enemy", especially given the hostile statements of many of its leaders. To curb the Iranian nuclear military effort, the services will stop at nothing: targeted killings – five between 2010 and 2020, the latest of which on November 27, 2020 by Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Mahabadi -, sabotages – including those in Natanz in June 2009, 2 July 2020 and 11 April 2021 -, disinformation, etc.
In addition to nuclear power, the Israelis are also targeting the ballistic project as during the sabotage of the Shahid Modares missile base in Bid Kaneh (40 kilometers from Tehran) which saw the disappearance of 17 IRGCs including Brigadier General Hassan Modaddam, responsible development of the Shahab, Ghadir and Sejil missiles.
Finally, the Iranian maneuvers aimed at increasing their influence in the "Shiite crescent" that covers Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, not to mention the Yemeni foreign operational theater, are being targeted. In this context, the militias that act as "troops on the battlefield" (Lebanese Hezbollah, Syrian, Iraqi, Pakistani and Afghan militias) in Tehran are also a prime target.
Barnea's predecessor Yosef Meir (Yossi) Cohen (born 1961), former national security adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu and former Mossad number two (appointed director in 2016), played a leading role in the so – called plan ' Abraham 'for the normalization of relations with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain (followed by Sudan and then Morocco). He also reportedly accompanied Netanyahu on a secret visit to Saudi Arabia in November 2020, where they would meet Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS). This trip was denied by Riyadh but it is known that the two countries have good relations because they have a common enemy: Iran.
The two intelligence officers had to work together when Yossi Cohen led the Iranian section of the Mossad since 2004. Although the Mossad operations remain secret, one was officially revealed on April 30, 2018 by Netanyahu for propaganda purposes: the recovery in the January 2018 of 500 kilos of secret documents related to the Iranian nuclear program in central Tehran. It is very likely that Barnea played an important role in this action as he was head of the department dealing with Iran while Cohen was director of the Mossad. It should be noted that the warehouse where these 55,000 documents and 183 CD-ROMs containing 55,000 files were stored was identified by the Israelis in 2016. This operation therefore lasted more than a year.
During the crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Yossi Cohen was tasked with acquiring by all possible means the medical materials (and vaccines) necessary for the massive immunization of the Israeli population, in close collaboration with the controversial Minister of Health, Yaakov Litzman, himself suffering from the disease.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/israele-chi-e-il-nuovo-capo-del-mossad-nominato-da-netanyahu/ on Tue, 01 Jun 2021 09:00:27 +0000.