>Harari is a former agent in the Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, who gained prominence as a figure in business and arms dealings between Israel and Panama, of which he was reported to take hefty commissions. Harari also trained anti-terrorist and private security squads for Noriega.
>Israeli diplomats in Panama and American congressmen have warned Israel on several occasions that if Noriega and Washington collided, Harari could prove to be an embarrassment.
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>Michael (“Mike”) Harari, a former senior official in the Mossad, died on Sunday at his Tel Aviv home at age 87.
>Harari, born in Tel Aviv in 1927, joined the Mossad in 1954, but he began fighting for Israel when he enlisted at 16-and-a-half in the pre-state Palmach elite fighting force. He later worked for the illegal immigration organization Mossad Le’aliyah Bet in Europe after World War II, joined the Shin Bet security service, founded the Foreign Ministry’s security and protection service, and smuggled Jews out of Eastern European countries.
>In 1970 he was appointed head of the Mossad’s special operations division, Caesarea, and established within it the Kidon (Spear) unit that among other things specialized in targeted assassinations. He led the fight against Palestinian terrorist organizations for a decade.
>Harari commanded Operation Wrath of God against the Black September terrorist group, which was behind the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972. He was responsible for collecting the intelligence leading to the Aviv Ne’urim (Spring of Youth ) operation in Beirut in 1973, in which three senior Fatah leaders were killed; and commanded the operation in which Hassan Ali Salameh, a senior member of the Black September organization, was killed in 1979.
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>Most of the operations Harari commanded in the decade from 1970 to 1980 are still secret. In 1981 he retired from the Mossad and went into private business. He served as Panama’s honorary consul in Israel and as an adviser to Panama’s former president, Manuel Noriega, who was ousted and arrested in 1989 after the United States’ invasion that year. In 2007 Harari received a medal for a secret project he undertook for the Mossad during Meir Dagan’s time, purportedly related to the Iranian nuclear weapons project.
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