Gad Shimron ( he, גד שימרון, born 1950) is an Israeli journalist, author and military affairs commentator.

Biography

Shimron was born in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

. He is a graduate of the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

History History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well ...

and the study of

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south-eastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of mainland ...

. During the 1970s and 1980s, Shimron was a member of various operative units of the

Mossad Mossad ( , ), ; ar, الموساد, al-Mōsād, ; , short for ( he, המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים, links=no), meaning 'Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations'. is the national intelligence agency ...

for ten years. During the 1990s, Shimron served as the European correspondent for the Israeli daily newspaper '' Ma'ariv'', worked as a journalist in the news department of Israel's public domestic and international radio service '' Kol Yisrael'' and presented the morning show on the Israeli Channel 1. Shimron continued to work for ''Ma'ariv'' until he was fired from the newspaper in 2008. In addition, Shimron has published seven fiction and non-fiction books on

intelligence Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. More generally, it can ...

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and the history of the

Crusaders The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The best known of these Crusades are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were in ...

, in Hebrew, English, French and German. Between 1984 and 1991 Shimron was instrumental in the rescue of the Ethiopian Jews out of

Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...

and

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

by bringing them to Israel. The script for ''

The Red Sea Diving Resort ''The Red Sea Diving Resort'' (also known as ''Operation Brothers'') is a 2019 spy thriller film written and directed by Gideon Raff. The film stars Chris Evans as an Israeli Mossad agent who runs a covert operation that attempts to rescue Et ...

'', a 2019 spy thriller film, was loosely based ("inspired") on an actual undercover mission (part of Operation Brothers) that moved Ethiopian Jews to Israel. Most of the information about this operation was first revealed in Shimron’s book ''Mossad Exodus: The Daring Undercover Rescue of the Lost Jewish Tribe''. As ''

Time Time is the continued sequence of existence and event (philosophy), events that occurs in an apparently irreversible process, irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various me ...

'' magazine points out, however, the film is not associated with the book. Shimron discussed the mission with journalists in 2019, and commented about the risks involved in an undercover operation in the Sudan. "So much happened: We were shot at; I was arrested and interrogated by Sudanese security. Thank goodness nobody was killed or seriously wounded, but the operations moving the immigrants were definitely dangerous."

Publications

* * - the book has been translated into French under the name "Mossad's secret hysteria." * - The full story of the only Mossad operation which was aimed at eliminating a Nazi war criminal (

Herberts Cukurs Herberts Cukurs (17 May 1900 – 23 February 1965) was a Latvian aviator and deputy commander of the Arajs Kommando, which carried out the largest mass murders of Latvian Jews in the Holocaust. Although Cukurs never stood trial, multiple Holocau ...

). Translated to English, German and Latvian. * - the book focuses on the Mossad's covert operation which brought the

Ethiopian Jews The Beta Israel ( he, בֵּיתֶא יִשְׂרָאֵל, ''Bēteʾ Yīsrāʾēl''; gez, ቤተ እስራኤል, , modern ''Bēte 'Isrā'ēl'', EAE: "Betä Ǝsraʾel", "House of Israel" or "Community of Israel"), also known as Ethiopian Jews ...

to Israel from

. Translated into English under the name ''Mossad Exodus'' (). * - a historic novel based on the Crusader period in the region of Palestine. * - a political thriller about the Israeli Prime Minister blackmailed by his wife. * - the book focuses on

Special forces Special forces and special operations forces (SOF) are military units trained to conduct special operations. NATO has defined special operations as "military activities conducted by specially designated, organized, selected, trained and equi ...

in the armies of the world. * - a historical novel based on

a true story ''A True Story'' ( grc, Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα, ''Alēthē diēgēmata''; or ), also translated as True History, is a long novella or short novel written in the second century AD by the Greek author Lucian of Samosata. The novel is a sa ...

References

External links

Interview with Gad Shimron on BBC World
- published on 17 February 2010
All of Gad Shimron's columns in Ma'ariv
(Hebrew) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Shimron, Gad 1950 births Living people Israeli Jews Israeli journalists Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni People from Tel Aviv