You have to admit, WWII for all its awfulness, was a great time for women in the spy trade. We’ve seen operatives, cryptographers, and inventors, and now, we have another to add to the list: human smugglers. Considering the heated American debate on illegal immigration in America, Ruth Klieger Aliav (19??-1979) is a worthy dame [...]
Tzipi Livni
Interesting news coming out of the Holy Land, one in the form that the current Foreign Minister of Israel, and likely future Prime Minister of the Land, is a former Mossad Agent. Tzipi Livni (1958-) is the daughter of militant Israeli activists (both parents were arrested at one time or another for terrorism). After serving [...]
Golda Meir
Anger most grandmothers and you’re sure to get a time-out or denied your milk and cookies. Anger this grandmother and she orders one the most far-reaching and deadliest covert operations of all time. Whatever your view on the region’s politics, there’s no denying Golda Meir’s (1898-1978) place in history as the “Iron Lady” of Israel. [...]
