reporting from JERUSALEM — Meir Dagan, a former Israeli general and longtime director of the country’s spy agency, died Thursday. He was 71. Dagan directed the Mossad from 2002 until he retired in ...

JERUSALEM – Meir Dagan, a former Israeli general and longtime director of the country's spy agency, died on Thursday. He was 71. Dagan directed the Mossad from 2002 until he retired in early 2011.

On March 17, former Mossad chief Meir Dagan passed away at the age of 71. An examination of Dagan’s career illuminates how creative thinking and bold approaches can enable intelligence organizations ...

JERUSALEM — Meir Dagan, who was widely credited with setting back Iran’s nuclear program through covert and daring operations as the director of the Mossad intelligence agency from 2002 to 2011, died ...

Former Mossad director Meir Dagan, who called the idea of bombing Iranian nuclear sites “stupid,” has died. Dagan, who headed Israel’s foreign intelligence and special operations organization for ...

JERUSALEM — Mossad director Meir Dagan, who after a long career spearheading shadow wars against Israel’s enemies became a vociferous critic of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s saber-rattling on ...

Recently retired Mossad chief Meir Dagan, fresh from calling a military attack on Iran “the stupidest thing I ever heard,” said at a conference in Tel Aviv that Israel should embrace the Saudi peace ...

Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan said Israel should hold off on attacking Iran and that he would “prefer” that the United States execute any attack. Dagan also said in an interview aired Sunday on the ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Meir Dagan, a former Israeli general and longtime director of the country’s spy agency, died on Thursday. He was 71. Dagan directed the Mossad from 2002 until he retired in early 2011 ...

Dagan served in the Six-Day War, Yom Kippur War and First Lebanon War, and is said to have led some of the Israeli army’s most daring missions. JERUSALEM (JTA) — Former Mossad director Meir Dagan, who ...

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