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Yes, there was Mata Hari, and Violette Szabo, and Vera Atkins, and Virginia Wake. And to this list we could now add the names of a dozen or more female Mossad agents, though of course we will never know their names.
We have all seen the videos of the female Mossad agent — or was there more than one? — who took part in the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh on January 19, 2010, in a hotel room in Dubai. Al-Mabhouh was co-founder of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing Hamas, who was in charge of obtaining arms from Iran for use in Gaza.
But now we could add the names of a dozen or more female Mossad agents who, according to Mossad’s current head, David Barnea, were particularly effective inside Iran during the 12-Day War. More on these femmes fatales can be found here: “Dozens of Mossad women penetrated Iran during 12-Day War- exclusive,” by Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jerusalem Post, September
Dozens of Mossad women penetrated Iran and had boots on the ground, performing a variety of operations during Israel’s attacks on Tehran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs in June, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
Critically, the Post has come to understand that Mossad director David Barnea views the role that female Mossad agents played during the Israel-Iran war as very substantial.
While the exact nature of what these women did, exactly, is still classified, in 2024, a senior female Mossad agent, only known as “G” with an Iranian background and special expertise in Iran and in recruiting foreign spies in hostile countries, was honored with lighting a torch in the Independence Day ceremony.
Notably, Michael Bar Zohar’s and Nissim Mishal’s 2021 book The Mossad Amazons described female Mossad agents not only seducing enemy male officials and performing surveillance on Iran’s nuclear sites, but also carrying out kinetic and other attack operations.
While the Mossad does not wish to draw too much attention to any one subgroup of potential spies, the Post’s impression is that the spy agency’s women of 2025 are only doing more of every kind of undercover role as compared to their sisters of yesterday….
In addition to new revelations about the critical role of women during the Iran operation, the Post understands that the spy network has a sufficient handle on the location of Iran’s enriched uranium, which was not yet struck. So much so, in fact, that the agency could intervene if Tehran seemed to be trying to use that uranium to move again in the direction of manufacturing a nuclear weapon. weapon….
In other words, Mossad knows where that missing 400 kg. of uranium enriched to a level of 60% is located, and will be prepared to act if the Iranians try to enrich it still further to the weapons-grade level of 90%.
The women of Mossad are doing their level best to help their country survive. We know, in general terms, some of what they did inside Iran during the 12-day war, locating ballistic missiles and radar systems for the Israeli Air Force. But I don’t think that Western feminists will be celebrating their achievements, or the fact that the males of Mossad gave them a chance to shine. Western feminists, well to the left, are more likely to celebrate Palestinian terrorists such as Leila Khaled and Ahlam al-Tamimi. But you and I can admire their achievements, even if we will never know their names. Or perhaps we can imagine that we know one. Baum. Jane Baum.