The Head of the Research Division at the Israeli Defense Forces

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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