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Aliza Magen, who spent some 40 years working for the Mossad, Israel’s national intelligence agency, eventually serving as deputy under three of its directors, making her the highest-ranking woman in the organization’s history, died on April 14 in Jerusalem. She was 87.

Her death was announced in a statement by the Israeli prime minister’s office.

Mrs. Magen ed the Mossad directly after her mandatory military service and worked there her entire career. For more than 20 years she served undercover in various posts around Europe, where she was tasked with running agents and collecting intelligence.

She participated in some of the Mossad’s biggest operations, though many of the details of her work remain classified. She was fluent in German, and one of her first operations was a multiyear effort to undermine, assassinate or turn German scientists who were building missiles for Egypt, which could have devastated Israel during a war[/b[

[b]From her base in Austria, she helped recruit a former top-ranking Nazi officer to become a Mossad asset.

In the 1970s she participated in a campaign, called Operation Wrath of God, to hunt down and kill the organizers of the 1972 terrorist attack at the Munich Olympics that led to the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches

She returned to Israel in the early 1980s. There she worked as the deputy head of the Mossad’s Tzomet division, which handles agents and overseas intelligence gathering. She later ran the agency’s istrative division and its operations center.

Mrs. Magen was preparing to retire in 1990, when Shabtai Shavit, the new Mossad director, asked her to be his deputy. While the Mossad had long counted women among its ranks, she was the first to rise to a top position in its leadership.

Mrs. Magen made it clear that she had no aspirations to lead the Mossad, which is one reason that Mr. Shavit’s successor, Danny Yatom, kept her on after he took office in 1996.

Mr. Yatom was forced to resign in 1998 in the wake of a botched Mossad operation to bug the home of an alleged Hezbollah operative in Switzerland. Such was her reputation that Mrs. Magen kept her post, serving for several more months under the next Mossad head, Efraim Halevy.

“She was always one of the most respected intelligence officers,” Mr. Halevy said in an interview. “I trusted her in every aspect of what was going on in the Mossad.”

Aliza Halevi was born on July 5, 1937, in Jerusalem, in what was then known as Mandatory Palestine and istered by Britain. Her parents were German Jews who had fled the Nazis, and she grew up speaking German along with Hebrew and English.

She ed the Mossad in 1958 after completing her mandatory military service. Because of her language skills, she was assigned in 1961 to take notes at the trial of the senior Nazi official Adolf Eichmann for his role in the Holocaust.

Her comments and analysis caught the attention of the Mossad director at the time, Isser Harel, who cleared the way for her to rise in the ranks. Within a year she was working in Europe.

She participated in scores of operations, including a successful effort to persuade an Iraqi fighter pilot to defect to Israel, with his plane.

She also helped lead an international hunt for a Soviet-Israeli boy named Yossele Schumacher, who had been abducted and taken out of the country by friends of his ultrareligious grandparents, who feared his parents would raise him as secular. Mossad agents found him in Brooklyn and returned him to Israel

The case became a major scandal in Israel that deepened the rift between religious and secular society.

She married Avraham Magen in 1973. He died in 2011. No immediate family survive.

For most of her career, Mrs. Magen’s role in the Mossad was a secret, only becoming public after her elevation to deputy. After that she spoke openly about the difficulties and advantages of being a woman in an intelligence career.

It was often hard, she said, for a woman to rise in the ranks of the Mossad, because the top leadership roles required experience working undercover in foreign countries, assignments that are difficult for women to manage while raising a family.

“This is where the vicious circle of difficulty for the advancement of women is created,” she said in a 2008 interview with the Intelligence Heritage Center in Israel.

At the same time, she said, women agents often have an easier time working undercover because people are less likely to be suspicious of them.

“In one exercise, for example, we had to observe a certain place, and there was no observation point we could be in without raising people’s suspicions,” she said in a 2018 interview with Yediot Ahronot, a daily newspaper. “So I found a small store across the street with a pavement in front of it. I asked the salesman if I could get a chair and rest outside for a while.”
She told him she felt dizzy, a claim that the man believed instantly
“I just sat down on a chair calmly,” she said. “I don’t think a man could do such a thing.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/world/middleeast/aliza-magen-dead.html

spies

sweetonugbu:
spies

Cross Mossad and you're finished. No debate. That driver, your neighbour. All potential assets.
One phone call and your whole existence gets scrubbed clean. No drama. Just gone. Shalom!

tishbite41:

Noise

Sinwar, Nasrallah and other islamic terrorists said the same. Where are they now?
These two were hunted down for most of their lives. One was killed while fleeing through tunnel to tunnels dressed in women's clothes (Sinwar) till the IDF caught up with him, dying a terrible death with chunk of his head and arm blown off.

The other was bombed in his bunker (Nasrallah) and suffocated slowly and painfully, screaming for help. These are just a few examples.

God bless Israel.
If you hate Israel because of the war then it's simple.

May her soul rest in peace.

Just imagining how many people, agents and civilians, she must have sent to their deaths throughout the course of her career.

She will face the reality of her actions now

Botragelad:

Cross Mossad and you're finished. No debate. That driver, your neighbour. All potential assets.
One phone call and your whole existence gets scrubbed clean. No drama. Just gone. Shalom!

Noise

The old woman looks mean as typical of Mossad agents. Terrorists go don hear am wella with her. Rest in peace mama.

May her soul finds peace 🕊️

Thank God for Israel for dealing with these Islamic terrorists around the world

R. I.P to her.

The Mossad , contemporary of Golda Meir. I respect the Mossad.

She did her utmost best unfortunately nigeria intelligence agency is just by name despite all the huge funds allocated to it.

Rest In Peace to her.



Aliza Halevi was born on July 5, 1937, in Jerusalem, in what was then known as Mandatory Palestine and istered by Britain. Her parents were German Jews who had fled the Nazis, and she grew up speaking German along with Hebrew and English.

Later some uninformed people will say no Jews were staying in the land until after world war 2

The tormentors of allahuakbars

Botragelad:

Cross Mossad and you're finished. No debate. That driver, your neighbour. All potential assets.
One phone call and your whole existence gets scrubbed clean. No drama. Just gone. Shalom!

The secret to mossad is God.
While the hamas have allah, Israel has God.
And God will always win.

Xannadu:
Just imagining how many people, agents and civilians, she must have sent to their deaths throughout the course of her career.

Can't be more than the number of people that Hamas & Hezbollah have killed

Rest in peace, I wish we have people like this in Nigeria who are truly patriotic to nation.
Our own na to steal money and jump from PDP to APC, Then to NNP, NNPC.

Female spies are not easily suspected especially in difficult terrains.
87 years!
She has seen it all.

Patriotic citizens of serious Nations

In the giant of Africa she'd be giving intelligence to her tribesmen to enable them to attack other tribes, kill them and occupy their lands because their fore father told them "he will dip their religious book" in the atlantic ocean.

tishbite41:

Noise

Sinwar said the same. Where's he now?

Mossad. The terror of Islamic terrorists

[quote author=Botragelad post=135166062]
Cross Mossad and you're finished. No debate. That driver, your neighbour. All potential assets.
One phone call and your whole existence gets scrubbed clean. No drama. Just gone. Shalom!

Sinwar, Nasrallah and other islamic terrorists said the same. Where are they now?
Sinwar was been spied on even while he pooped

Mossad - silent and deadly at the same time. After USA CIA, FBI, Russian KGB, mossad is next

Chai.

RIP great one.

May the good lord, continue to bless the great state of Israel. Majority of the great Igbo tribe are with you.

Respect, Ma — may your soul rest in peace. Aliza Magen, without a doubt, served Israel with unwavering commitment and dedication; her story is truly inspiring. She was one of the people who laid a solid foundation for, and helped make, Mossad a ruthlessly efficient organization.

Rest in peace, Ma.

Small Isreal has a formidable army I shame for my country, I'm sure she's just a small fish when other Mossad bigwigs are mentioned but Wetin the small fish don archive Wetin anybody for Nigerian army don achieve, other than oppressing civilians I dunno what these ones do.

dauntless15:
Small Isreal has a formidable army I shame for my country, I'm sure she's just a small fish when other Mossad bigwigs are mentioned but Wetin the small fish don archive Westin anybody for Nigerian army don achieve, other than oppressing civilians I dunno what these ones do.

Heavy shame... In the GI.ant of Africa soldiers go withdraw, Fulani go attack, kill and destroy. Then the soldiers go return to harass the grieving villagers. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME...

Mossad and the CIA are everywhere in the world.
Not your DSS that are now doing escort and guard duty for Chinese businessmen and Politicians.
They cannot even uncover the hideouts of bandit's and Boko Haram in their own land.
Poor intelligence.

Rest in Peace to the Legendary Spy woman.

RIP AGENT