Mike harari biography

Michael Harari (18 February 1927-21 September 2014) was an IsraeliMossad intelligence officer.

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Micahel Harari was born in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine in 1927, and he joined Haganah at the age of 13, serving as a courier. In 1943, he joined Haganah's elite strike force, Palmach, and took part in a 1945 raid on an Allied internment camp to free 208 imprisoned Jews. He later helped to facilitate Jewish illegal immigration from Europe to Palestine, and he served in Shin Bet in the Israel Defense Forces before joining Mossad during the 1960s. In 1972, he helped to build and lead teams during Operation Wrath of God, and, when he led his team to Norway to assassinate Ali Hassan Salameh, his team accidentally killed a Moroccan waiter. However, he helped in scoping out the Entebbe Airport ahead of Operation Entebbe, and he also led the team that killed Salameh in 1979. He later became the Mossad station chief in South America, and he returned to Israel from Panama just before Operation Just Cause in 1989; he denied being an adviser to Manuel Noriega. He died in 20

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Most people have never heard the name Michael “Mike” Harari. Given his vocation, he probably would approve of his anonymity.

Born in Tel Aviv, Michael Harari (1927-2014), enlisted in the Haganah at age 13, and three years later, in 1943, he joined the elite Palmach force. After Israel’s independence in 1948, Michael served in the Israel Defense Forces and its Shin Bet internal security service. In the 1960s, he was recruited by Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, eventually being promoted to the head of the Caesarea Department, which placed undercover agents abroad. He founded the Mossad’s Operations branch, the Kidon unit.

Harari was very involved with Operation Wrath of God, whose goal was to avenge the murder of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany, at the hands of a terrorist group known as “Black September.” Unfortunately, the Israeli agents, looking to assassinate Ali Hassan Salameh, the chief of Black September in Lillehammer, Norway, accidentally shot an innocent waiter who resembled Salameh. Harari and Mossad

Mike Harari dies at 87; Mossad agent helped plan Munich revenge attacks

Mike Harari, an Israeli secret service agent who played a major role in planning Mossad’s revenge attacks against Palestinian militants implicated in the 1972 Munich massacre of the country’s Olympic team, has died. He was 87.

Harari, who died Sunday in Tel Aviv, was “one of the great warriors for Israel’s security,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.

Also involved in planning Israel’s dramatic rescue of hostages held by militants in Entebbe, Uganda, in 1976, Harari was best known for his part in planning Mossad’s missions in the aftermath of the Munich attack. The militants first killed two Israeli athletes at the Olympic village in the German city, then took others hostage in an attempt to flee unharmed.

Nine of the hostages were subsequently killed in a gunbattle between German police and the militants.

The Munich revenge attacks were collectively known as “Operation Wrath of God.” For nearly a year, Mossad agents targeted Palestinian militants throughout Europe, frequently shooting

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