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Ronen Bergman

Rise and Kill First


The Secret History of Israelīs Targeted Assassinations
2019. 784 S. 2 16-PP COLOR PHOTO INSERTS. 9.1900 in
Verlag/Jahr: RANDOM HOUSE US; RANDOM HOUSE TRADE PAPERBACKS 2019
ISBN: 0-8129-8211-8 (0812982118)
Neue ISBN: 978-0-8129-8211-4 (9780812982114)

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDFīs targeted killing programs, hailed by The New York Times as "an exceptional work, a humane book about an incendiary subject."

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN HISTORY

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY JENNIFER SZALAI, THE NEW YORK TIMES
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Economist - The New York Times Book Review - BBC History Magazine - Mother Jones - Kirkus Reviews

The Talmud says: "If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first." This instinct to take every measure, even the most aggressive, to defend the Jewish people is hardwired into Israelīs DNA. From the very beginning of its statehood in 1948, protecting the nation from harm has been the responsibility of its intelligence community and armed services, and there is one weapon in their vast arsenal that they have relied upon to thwart the most serious threats: Targeted assassinations have been used countless times, on enemies large and small, sometimes in response to attacks against the Israeli people and sometimes preemptively.

In this page-turning, eye-opening book, journalist and military analyst Ronen Bergman-praised by David Remnick as "arguably [Israelīs] best investigative reporter"-offers a riveting inside account of the targeted killing programs: their successes, their failures, and the moral and political price exacted on the men and women who approved and carried out the missions.

Bergman has gained the exceedingly rare cooperation of many current and former members of the Israeli government, including Prime Ministers Shimon Peres, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon, and Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as high-level figures in the countryīs military and intelligence services: the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), the Mossad (the worldīs most feared intelligence agency), Caesarea (a "Mossad within the Mossad" that carries out attacks on the highest-value targets), and the Shin Bet (an internal security service that implemented the largest targeted assassination campaign ever, in order to stop what had once appeared to be unstoppable: suicide terrorism).

Including never-before-reported, behind-the-curtain accounts of key operations, and based on hundreds of on-the-record interviews and thousands of files to which Bergman has gotten exclusive access over his decades of reporting, Rise and Kill First brings us deep into the heart of Israelīs most secret activities. Bergman traces, from statehood to the present, the gripping events and thorny ethical questions underlying Israelīs targeted killing campaign, which has shaped the Israeli nation, the Middle East, and the entire world.

"A remarkable feat of fearless and responsible reporting . . . important, timely, and informative."-John le Carré
Ronen Bergman is the senior correspondent for military and intelligence affairs for Yedioth Ahronoth, Israelīs largest daily paid newspaper, and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, where he reports on intelligence, national security, terrorism, and nuclear issues. Bergman is the author of five bestselling Hebrew-language nonfiction books and The Secret War with Iran, which was published in the United States by Free Press. Bergman is the recipient of the Sokolow Prize, Israelīs most esteemed award for journalism, and the Bīnai Bīrith International Press Award, among other honors. A member of the Israeli bar, he graduated with honors from the University of Haifa Faculty of Law and clerked in the attorney generalīs office. A winner of a Chevening Scholarship from the British Foreign Office, he received a masterīs in international relations from Cambridge University, where he was also awarded his PhD in history.