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“Shadow Wars, 2020” – Israel, Iran & America

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Education, News, History

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The second in a double-header on Israeli intelligence. This week we walk the story up to the present day – including the election of Joe Biden and the recent assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. We also hear how Israeli intelligence is retooling for the twenty-first century. Andrew is joined by journalist Yossi Melman, a reporter for Haaretz and advisor on the Netflix Series Inside the Mossad, and Dan Raviv, who was at CBS for over 40 years. They are the authors of Every Spy a Prince and Spies Against Armageddon.

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Welcome to this week's edition of Spycast, Shadow Wars, Israel, Iran and America.

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This is the second and a two-part series where we look at the history of Israeli intelligence.

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So last week we took a deep dive into some of the backstory of Israeli intelligence.

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We looked at the period between 1948 and 2012.

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This week we're walking the story up to the present day and I mean the present day.

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So we're looking at the recent assassination of the Iranian nuclear scientist,

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