The history of Israeli intelligence agencies originates from the detached units of Palestinian self-defense, created nearly 100 years ago.

Today, intelligence agencies of Israel are among the best known and most influential in the world. The basis of this structure is a powerful triumvirate of the military and political intelligence and security services.

The main objective of intelligence agencies is to protect national interests and security of Israel, and for decades they have successfully been coping with it.

In Ukraine, Mossad, legendary political intelligence of Israel, is traditionally well known. This unit conducts surveillance and information gathering outside Israel, prevents terrorist attacks on the state, and performs special and secret operations abroad. The first director of Mossad, Reuven Shiloah marked the principle of its operation this way, “Israeli intelligence should act as a guarantor of the security of Jews around the world. Secret activities should be based on modern technology, using the latest achievements in the field of espionage, maintaining contact with friendly services.” Up to date, Mossad operates in accordance with these principles, its first task is to protect Jews with the use of cutting-edge gadgets.

A particular degree of secrecy is the basis of the activities of almost all the security services in Israel. Up to the very present time even the names of department heads were secret. If you can find out about any special operations of Mossad, every time it becomes a sensation. For example, as a result of one of Mossad's operations, the judicial system of Israel gave one and only death sentence in its history. We are talking about the kidnapping of Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann, one of the organizers of the Holocaust, by Mossad agents. Eichmann was in charge of all deportation operations of Jews to death camps during the Holocaust, so his capture was a matter of principle. Therefore, in 1960, 15 years after the end of the war, the Israeli Mossad found Eichmann in Argentina and brought him to Israel. It is interesting that volunteers take part in such operations of increased complexity. After 9 days of kidnapping, Eichmann was brought to Israel, condemned and hanged. The execution of Eichmann became the only practical application of the amendment in the law about the abolition of death penalty in Israel and the second (and last) death penalty under sentence in Israel's history. After hanging Eichmann's body was burned and the cremains were scattered over the Mediterranean Sea outside the territorial waters of Israel.

The most famous operations of Mossad are also Wrath of God – elimination of the terrorists who killed Israeli Olympic athletes, Moses, when more than 10 thousand of Jews were evacuated from Ethiopia, the elimination of the leaders of terrorist organizations.

Today, the Israeli intelligence agencies continue to provide the security of Israel: the bulk of the terrorist attacks in the country end before beginning. Criminals are their methods are changing - today Israel is facing extremism more often - but the purpose of the work of Israeli intelligence agencies is not changing - to defend at any price.