Book- By Means of Deception: 30 Historical Affairs From Israel's Intelligence Agencies (2025)

“By means of deception you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory” – Proverbs 24:6

For decades, Israel has maintained a fearsome, legendary status as an intelligence powerhouse despite—or perhaps thanks to—the shroud of secrecy surrounding its agencies and operations, perhaps best encapsulated by the Mossad’s guiding principle:

“By means of deception you can wage your war.”

In this eye-opening book, military correspondent turned Israeli historian Josef Argaman fully discloses thirty of the most captivating military and intelligence affairs in the history of Israel, including:

The assassination of Egyptian Colonel Mustafa Hafez.

The extraction of the Israeli ambassador from Tehran in February 1979.

The full story behind “Operation Gur” that turned the tide of the Independence War.

How Israeli intelligence uncovered the Egyptian-Jordanian plot that almost cost Israel the Six-Day War.

The turbulent first 24 hours of the newly unified Jerusalem.

Praised by high-ranking military officials as an “unprecedented contribution to the Israeli Defense Forces archives,” Argaman’s book includes written accounts, photographic evidence,

and behind-the-scenes interviews of former and current intelligence officials, conducted by Argaman over his twenty-year career.

With a craftsman’s pen, Argaman traces the history of Israel, and the organizations, both public and covert, that shaped it.

214 pages.