‘An organization like Mossad must think big’

Yossi Amrusi: What I can say from my experience is that the Mossad’s activity in Iran in recent years, and especially leading up to and during the recent rounds of fighting, was astonishing. Mossad personnel, the organization’s employees and operatives, managed to obtain quality, deep and precise intelligence that assisted the air force and the defense establishment in the most impressive way. In certain respects, these are intelligence achievements the likes of which we haven’t seen before.

The current discussion must not create the impression that the entire intelligence campaign against Iran was a failure. To the contrary. There were extraordinary achievements here, any lessons to be drawn belong at the level of decision-making, risk assessment and strategic planning, not operational execution.

The full interview was published in JNS on August 24, 2026.

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