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I've always been hooked on baking.
Ron Ben-Israel
Hooked
Baking
Always
Been
I have a very strong sense of who I am as a Jew and a strong sense of belonging.
Ron Ben-Israel
Strong
Sense
Strong Sense
Am
Very
Who
Belonging
Jew
The first to grasp how sensitive Israeli public opinion was on the issue of hostages and M.I.A.'s - and therefore what a powerful weapon abduction could be - was Ahmed Jibril, the leader of a faction of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Ronen Bergman
Leader
First
Liberation
Weapon
Faction
Could
Hostages
Powerful
Powerful Weapon
Opinion
How
Israeli
Issue
Front
Sensitive
Public
Public Opinion
Grasp
Popular
Therefore
Palestine
I'm the son of two Holocaust survivors. As a child, I heard from one of my parents' best friends about living through Mengele's infamous selection process at Auschwitz. He haunted my nightmares.
Ronen Bergman
Best
Son
Parents
Living
About
Haunted
Through
Selection
He
Heard
Infamous
Auschwitz
Friends
Child
Survivors
Process
Holocaust
Two
Nightmares
In addition to closed-circuit TV systems and the ability to track cellphone and computer users, advanced biometric identification systems and online coordination across borders are becoming more and more widespread.
Ronen Bergman
Addition
Systems
TV
Borders
Ability
Online
More
More And More
Computer
Advanced
Identification
Track
Becoming
Across
Users
Coordination
Widespread
The command-and-control systems, the war rooms, the methods of information gathering, and the technology of the pilotless aircraft, or drones, that now serve the Americans and their allies were all, in large part, developed in Israel.
Ronen Bergman
War
Technology
Gathering
Aircraft
Systems
Allies
Developed
Part
Drones
Israel
Were
Methods
American
Information
Rooms
Large
Large Part
Now
Serve
When something is presented as an existential threat, it is very easy to scare the Israelis.
Ronen Bergman
Easy
Scare
Threat
Something
Israelis
Existential
Very
Presented
For years, I have been writing that ultimately, if nothing else stops the Iranian nuclear project, such as the sanctions or a change in the regime in Tehran, then Israel itself will take action to destroy it from the air.
Ronen Bergman
Change
Writing
Will
Nothing
Action
Else
Air
Tehran
Project
Destroy
Take
Israel
Been
Years
Iranian
Ultimately
Itself
Stops
Regime
Sanctions
Then
Nuclear
Throughout the 1990s, Israel and the United States devoted vast resources to weakening the nuclear links between Russia and Iran and applied enormous diplomatic pressure on Russia to cut off the relationship.
Ronen Bergman
Relationship
Pressure
Enormous
Resources
States
Weakening
Diplomatic
Russia
Vast
Throughout
Between
Devoted
Israel
Iran
Off
Links
Cut
United
United States
Nuclear
Applied
Generally speaking, Israeli intelligence did not hunt Nazi war criminals.
Ronen Bergman
War
Intelligence
Criminals
Hunt
Generally
Israeli
Did
Speaking
What the Shin Bet did in the Bus 300 affair is no less than declaring a revolt. They took the methods of manipulation, disinformation, threats, blackmail, etc. and instead of using them against the enemy, they used these tactics against their own side.
Ronen Bergman
Enemy
Own
Side
Took
Threats
Bet
Tactics
Instead
Affair
Methods
Revolt
Than
Did
Disinformation
Against
Etc
Bus
Them
Manipulation
Declaring
Used
Less
Using
As much as I am very critical of Ariel Sharon in the first Lebanon war, I think that he was the right person at the right time in the right place as prime minister. He made a series of very significant decisions, not one of which was popular or seemed justified at the time.
Ronen Bergman
War
Time
Right Person
Made
First
Think
Right Place
Right Time
Critical
Significant
Minister
Seemed
He
Sharon
Prime
Prime Minister
Am
Lebanon
Very
Person
Place
Which
Decisions
Justified
Much
Popular
Series
Right
Under international law, defendants convicted in absentia have the right to a retrial, unless the prosecutors for the authorities who do finally capture them can show that the defendants knew they were under indictment.
Ronen Bergman
Law
Unless
Finally
Indictment
Knew
Prosecutors
Were
Authorities
Them
Convicted
Show
Who
International
Capture
International Law
Right
In 1982, Israel began an invasion across its northern border, seeking to root out elements of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Israeli military wreaked destruction all the way up to Beirut and forced the P.L.O. out of Lebanon. It also defeated the Syrian Army and, particularly, the Air Force wherever it engaged them.
Ronen Bergman
Army
Air Force
Destruction
Organization
Military
Air
Way
Liberation
Syrian
Out
Border
Seeking
Invasion
Particularly
Also
Force
Forced
Israel
Israeli
Lebanon
Began
Up
Northern
Wherever
Them
Root
Across
Engaged
Beirut
Elements
Palestine
Defeated
In 2005, the last year of his life, Ahmad Abu Adass was 22 and still living with his parents in Beirut, Lebanon. He was kind and liked people, his friends later told investigators, but none of them thought he was very sophisticated.
Ronen Bergman
Life
People
Thought
Parents
Year
Living
Later
Kind
Investigators
He
Abu
Sophisticated
Liked
None
Still
Lebanon
His
Friends
Very
Them
Beirut
Last
Last Year
For a thousand years after the Dead Sea Scrolls were written, the Jewish holy scriptures - the five parts of the Torah and 19 other holy books - were copied and passed down in the various Jewish communities from generation to generation.
Ronen Bergman
Generation
Down
Other
Books
Torah
Thousand
Thousand Years
Various
Written
Dead
Parts
Passed
Were
Years
Five
After
Scriptures
Holy
Holy Scriptures
Sea
Communities
Copied
Jewish
By virtue of the standing and prestige of President Ben-Zvi, some 3,000 manuscripts originating from Arab lands, some of them of major significance, have been deposited at the Ben-Zvi Institute. In contrast to the Aleppo Codex, most of these documents were donated willingly, in the confidence that the institute would protect and preserve them.
Ronen Bergman
Confidence
President
Virtue
Arab
Prestige
Significance
Willingly
Would
Some
Institute
Major
Most
Protect
Documents
Were
Been
Contrast
Donated
Them
Lands
Standing
Manuscripts
Preserve
To the best of my knowledge, after the Pollard affair, Israel does not spy on the United States or against American targets.
Ronen Bergman
Best
Knowledge
States
Does
Israel
Affair
Spy
Targets
American
After
Against
United
United States
As a reporter in Israel, I have interviewed hundreds of people in its intelligence and defense establishments and studied thousands of classified documents that revealed a hidden history, surprising even in the context of Israel's already fierce reputation.
Ronen Bergman
History
People
Intelligence
Reputation
Defense
Hundreds
Hundreds Of People
Hidden
Thousands
Classified
Studied
Documents
Revealed
Context
Israel
Surprising
Reporter
Establishments
Fierce
Even
Can a nation use the methods of terrorism? Can it harm innocent civilians in the process? What are the costs? Where is the line?
Ronen Bergman
Terrorism
Innocent
Nation
Innocent Civilians
Civilians
Costs
Line
Methods
Where
Process
Use
Harm
Right after the Six Day War, Arafat launched a series of guerrilla operations from East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Acting on a tip, Israeli soldiers stormed the house where he was based, minutes too late. They found his food still warm on the table.
Ronen Bergman
War
Food
Day
Too Late
Too
Late
Guerrilla
Soldiers
East
Arafat
Table
Minutes
He
House
Operations
Still
Israeli
His
West
West Bank
Bank
Six
Tip
Where
After
Warm
Acting
Series
Found
Based
Jerusalem
Right
Even though intense focus on Iran's nuclear program has presumably increased the volume of intelligence gathered about it, it remains true that intelligence officers tend to rely heavily on a few trusted sources.
Ronen Bergman
Intelligence
Focus
Few
Increased
Though
Presumably
About
Rely
Tend
Remains
Volume
True
Iran
Sources
Trusted
Officers
Intense
Even
Nuclear
Program
Gathered
In the late 1980s, the United States and Israel believed that they had good intelligence on Iraq, but they missed the extent of Saddam Hussein's pursuit of unconventional weapons - until after he invaded Kuwait.
Ronen Bergman
Good
Intelligence
Late
States
Weapons
Invaded
Hussein
Pursuit
Had
He
Unconventional
Saddam
Missed
Until
Israel
Iraq
Kuwait
After
United
Believed
United States
Extent
Both Israel and America should acknowledge that scraps of information cannot serve as the basis for action against Iran, and they should find new criteria for such a decision.
Ronen Bergman
Decision
Action
Criteria
Find
Both
New
Israel
Iran
America
Scraps
Acknowledge
Cannot
Information
Against
Should
Serve
Basis
In Israel's short history, army commanders and the heads of the intelligence agencies have often advocated the use of force and in many cases showed contempt for the law and human rights. Political leaders have typically been more measured.
Ronen Bergman
History
Rights
Army
Intelligence
Law
Political
Human Rights
Cases
More
Leaders
Heads
Contempt
Force
Israel
Been
Political Leaders
Intelligence Agencies
Often
Human
Short
Agencies
Use
Measured
Many
Israel has good reason to be concerned about its intelligence making its way to Moscow: Russia is a major player in the war in Syria on Israel's northern border, where it has also become a close ally of Iran and Hezbollah, Israel's sworn enemies.
Ronen Bergman
War
Good
Intelligence
Enemies
Become
Way
Syria
Border
Good Reason
About
Russia
Ally
Major
Moscow
Also
Concerned
Making
Israel
Iran
Close
Northern
Where
Reason
Sworn
Player
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