Recruited almost immediately to spy for Israel, they are sent back to Lebanon and elsewhere to pose as Arabs (which they actually are) and collect intelligence. Four Arab Jews emigrate to Israel in 1948, at the birth of the new nation. Spies of No Country is about the slippery identities of these spies, but it’s 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. Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel. Journalist and award-winning author Matti Friedman’s masterfully told and meticulously researched tale of Israel’s first spies reads like an espionage novel-but it’s all true. SPIES OF NO COUNTRY SECRET LIVES AT THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL by Matti Friedman RELEASE DATE: MaA focused espionage tale of the beginning of Israel and the spies who turned out to bethe embryo of one of the world’s most formidable intelligence services. Of the dozen members of their ragtag unit, five would be caught and executed-but the remainder would emerge as the nucleus of the Mossad, Israel’s vaunted intelligence agency. 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. The four spies were young, Jewish, and born in Arab countries. Piercing.” - The New York Times Book ReviewĪward-winning writer Matti Friedman’s tale of Israel’s first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff-but it’s all true.
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