Spies Of No Country: Israel'S Secret Agents At The Birth Of The Mossad
The four spies were young, Jewish, and born in Arab countries. In 1948, at the outbreak of war in Palestine, they went undercover in Beirut, spending two years running sabotage operations and sending crucial intelligence back home. It was dangerous work. Of the dozen members of their ragtag unit, five would be caught and executedābut the remainder would emerge as the nucleus of the Mossad, Israelās vaunted intelligence agency.
Journalist and award-winning author Matti Friedmanās masterfully told and meticulously researched tale of Israelās first spies reads like an espionage novelābut itās all true. Spies of No Country is about the slippery identities of these spies, but itās also about the complicated identity of Israel, a country that presents itself as Western but in fact has more citizens with Middle Eastern roots, just like the spies of this fascinating narrative.