Inside Mossad's Assassins Unit: The World's Most Lethal Killers | DISPATCH | HD Israel Documentary

0:04 [Music] [Music] there's an old Hebrew proverb he who comes to kill you get up early and kill them first in Judaism there's an expression which I think still holds true he who comes to kill you get up early and kill them first it's the moral right to kill we kill those who want to kill us in Israel every time there's an attack people weep but then they shoot back for 40 years the Jewish state has

0:49 been secretly eliminating some of its enemies [Music] abroad terrorist every terrorist with blood on his hands is a target mosad the Israeli Secret Service is responsible for these special missions feelings are not a part of it you do it because the Prime Minister decided to do it we also spoke with people deemed enemies of the state of Israel who had had the Good Fortune to survive the Hitmen from Massad and uh the screams woke me up and then I saw four armed men

1:39 arrive they wanted to kill me in my sleep the will of the almighty decided otherwise in Israel the proverb an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth has become a perfectly acceptable State policy Israel is the country that has used the weapon of targeted killing more than any other country after the second world war game

2:42 [Music] Tunis Aman Dubai these cities are where mosad has operated its assassination operations in recent years March 1978 a Palestine Liberation Organization or PLO Commando hijacks AAS in the Israeli town of gilot it's one of the most serious attacks in Israel 38 people are killed including 13 children while the attack unfolds Yak morai is an officer in the Israeli Army

3:31 he'll never forget that [Music] day the Commando killed the tourist on the street before attacking the bus and forcing it to drive to Tel Aviv inside the bus they killed women and children they spared no one they blew up the bus it was the first time in Israel's history that such an attack had taken place inside the country I'll always remember that night according to mosad the man responsible for the outrage is Khalil alwazir also known as Abu Jihad Abu Jihad is not just another suspect he's the right-hand man of yasa Arafat the leader of the

4:16 PLO here he is in the mid 1980s filmed by another of his AIDS as the head of the pl's military operations he's trained training his men for an assault against [Music] Israel we have to blot out the sky over Tel Aviv so that this black Saturday will live on in history this is the day T Aviv will be hit by Blood and [Music] destruction the Israeli secret Services now consider the pl's second in command to be a legitimate

5:02 [Music] Target for months this former member of shinb gathered as much information about Abu Jihad as [Music] possible his mission was to determine the psychological profile of arafat's number two what did you learn that he is smart that he is very addicted to the mission that he learn a lot that he check every single point that he is going to deal with it that he do it by himself Abu Jihad is someone who liked to be in control and sometimes enjoyed

5:48 provocation in 1987 a stone-throwing Palestinian youth staged the intera against Israel Abu jiad takes credit for the uprising to Israel it's a red flag at the time Moshe Nissim is the Finance Minister his opinion was that Abu Jihad had to be killed and as soon as [Music] possible people were demoralized by the in I believed Abu jihad's death would boost their morale Abu jiad had masterminded a large number of attacks against Israel causing many

6:38 victims it couldn't go on we had to terminate him to end the life of an enemy of Israel is a decision that rests with one man the Prime Minister back then it was yitzak Shamir he alone in consult ation where this cabinet can add or remove names from the enemies to kill list usually the Prime Minister does not decide alone but um calls in one minister or a group of ministers to take the decision together the decision to eliminate Abu Jihad has to be voted on in the security cabinet made up of a small group of

7:24 senior military figures and ministers but the vote ends in stal mate five for and five against convinced that the pl's number two has to be killed mosan Nim tries to persuade fellow Cabinet member and defense secretary yitzak Rabin to vote in favor during the security cabinet meeting I asked Minister Rabin to come with me to an adjacent room I told Yak Rabin you're the minister of defense and I think you should be the first to support the proposal we need to show the world that we can still carry out this

8:10 sort of [Music] operation and rabine said you know what you're right let's go back in and so it became six4 and four against in the vote it's approved and the government gives the green light Abu had will be eliminated slight problem the pl's deputy leader lives in Tunisia a country then hostile to Israel so the operation is a risky one in Tunis the target lives in the CID buid neighborhood with his wife and children doubtlessly protected by Tunisian security and his personal bodyguards all of Israel's intelligence services are asked to contribute to the

8:56 planning ODed RZ profiler of Abu Jihad will spend more than a year investigating the target it takes months to plan an attacking like this a lot of people deal with it the Army intelligence and the shabbach and the mad and the National Security advisor and the government it's not you don't kill people like this ODed Raz the man who studied Abu jihad's profile is has to analyze every move the pl's number two makes but arafat's right-hand man is wary he is like a frightened people like an animal he's changing all the time his plan or all the time his plan or flats offices

9:44 how he goes from one point to another Point living like a hounded animal alongside the Poo's Deputy leader is the love of his life a woman he'd met 30 years earlier in Gaza it was a love story I liked his ideas I was crazy about him I was just 14 at the beginning it was a hidden love nobody knew about it he told me you want to marry me I love you but you are uh maybe lost me I I am Mars Maybe I am prisoners maybe I

10:31 am wounded person maybe tell yes that's for you and that's the same for me so we want to try together AB Jihad wasn't wrong 25 years later he's in the sights of the Israeli secret [Music] services in 1987 after checks cross checks and surveillance mosad obtained some crucial intelligence details of his personal life [Music] these allow Alas and his men to prepare his execution with Precision I had his address and since he had a wife there was a reason for him to go

11:16 home we knew the operation would be carried out in his home we had the layout of his house and we knew every step on every staircase we had a lot of information we even knew slept with a gun under his pillow at the time Abu Jihad suspected the Israelis might booby trap his car and he warned his wife he afraid many times to take me with him in his car yeah yes he did not allow me to join him anywhere it's true we knew the route that he would take we could have bombed

12:02 his car but in the end you choose the method that has 99% chance of success the objective was to kill Abu Jihad not wound him you can't be sure an explosion will kill a Target but if you shoot him at close range then you'll know he'll die by the beginning of 1988 the procedure had been chosen warships Would S for Tunis where a commander unit would secretly disembark and make its way to the house of Abu Jihad the operation is completely unlawful and needs to be executed as quickly as possible the 18th of April 1988 is

12:52 D-Day on route to Tunis the Commando unit receives a last coded signal from Israel's military headquarters [Music] the knights are now short the mission and the operation have to be very precise very quick and we wish you every success in Tunis mosad informants carry out one last check before the attack they make sure the Target is indeed at home they ring his phone and it's um Jihad that [Applause]

13:39 answers the caller asked to speak with Abu Jihad she wanted to inform him that quote one of his nephews had been captured by passing the phone to her husband um Jihad had unwittingly signed his death warrant the Israelis tapping the phone now had the confirmation they needed the pl's number two was was indeed at home Abu Jihad is unaware that just a few kilometers off the coast of CID buid several Israeli warships have taken up station the operation is directed from a frigate on board a young Colonel a certain Ehud Barak 20 years later he will become the prime minister of Israel at 2,300 hours a speedboat heads towards the coast of

14:25 Tunis on board is the unit whose task is to assassinate Abu Jihad at 2315 about 20 men board two mini buses and make their way to the home of the pl's Deputy leader if the Mad agents are discovered it would be a catastrophe military HQ in Tel Aviv is anxious and sends another radio signal in a few minutes the Mad agents are at Abu jihad's front door everything seems calm with just one

15:13 Sentry keeping watch they killed a guard with a silencer from the death of the Guard to reaching his bedroom took barly 10 seconds [Applause] [Music] I woke up with a start because of the cries and and the noise of the table breaking then I saw four men one of them opened fire and wounded

15:59 him in in his arm my husband tried to turn but he fell I ran after him to hold him back the man who' shot him threatened to kill me and told me to stand facing the wall woman screamed so they took her away they covered her mouth and took care of [Music] her another man came and shot him a second time and then a third man shot

16:48 him the fifth man came to shoot Abu jiad again and I cried out stop that's enough no bu stop enough a peo inquiry said Abu jiad had been struck by 75 bullets fired by five different guns the whole operation took less than 10 minutes the senior Commando still out of breath radios back to the frigate off Tunis that the operation had been a success is I finished everything is

17:38 [Music] okay the bogart the head of the commander unit that had just killed Abu Jihad would carve out a career in politics Bogart is no other than the current Minister of Defense in Israel Moshe Bogi yalon serving in the Hebrew State security services say often seems to lead to a future in [Music] politics returning to Israel as these recently declassified photos illustrate the Commando and Senior officers celebrate the elimination of their enemy with champagne on the way home the men were happy but there was no sense of Triumph no one was singing We got home the Prime

18:24 Minister congratulated us and said thank you very much early on the morning of the 19th of April 1988 a few hours after his death news of Abu jihad's killing explodes onto the world's media good evening ladies and gentlemen our top story this Saturday morning is the assassination of Abu Jihad good evening the Middle East is again in Flames tonight and Tunis a team of Assassins gunned down the pl's military leader and yaser arafat's top Deputy a Guerilla leader known as Abu jiad in the middle of the night at his residence in Tunis the Po's number two was assassinated in front of his wife and daughter a hit squad gunned down the victim known as Abu Jihad at his home in

19:11 Tunis the media almost immediately suspects Israel was responsible in Tel Aviv as they do after every mosad operation the authorities neither confirm or deny the reports the day after the assassination yasa Arafat visits his depuy's home in Gaza the Palestinians call for revenge against Israel in Tel Aviv Moshe Nissim the minister who' persuaded Rabin to support the operation savors its success next security cabinet meeting Rin asked me to follow him

19:59 saying he had something to tell me and he said you'll never know just how right you were the Israelis morale is very high now since Sunday whenever I go out in the car the people are applauding me they want to shake my hand and they make the victory sign it's really made the people very happy morale is so high now in 1993 the Oslo Accords finally bring the PLO and Israel together to negotiate a peace process but the reprieve will be brief

20:44 for the Jewish state by the mid 1990s Palestinians opposed to the Oslo process join a new resistance movement taking on Israel Hamas islamist and radical Hamas unleashes a new series of violent attacks against [Music] Israel on the 31st of July 1997 a market in Jerusalem is targeted with full force a suicide bomber kills 14 and injures 156 others the then prime minister Benjamin n yahu demands a list of hamus activists

21:31 to be killed his closest military adviser at the time remembers the absolute determination of the Israeli Premier Well after the attack the Prime Minister ordered all of the security services to come up with a plan so all the security services including shim including military intelligence and mad started doing what they could to get information and find the Targets target Benjamin Nan called in all the heads of

22:18 the intelligence and said I want a reaction give me a list of targets now shinb and Military Intelligence didn't have anything mad gave at first mad gave the names of few middle rank operatives of Kamas in Europe Netanyahu said no no I don't want these small fish I want the big [Music] sharks the job of netting the big sharks fell to Mishka Ben David a former philosophy teacher and then the head of intelligence for mad's clandestine operations he agrees to be interviewed at home on the hills above Jerusalem so you want to see the view first yes if you go all the way down there

23:06 which is now very hazy you can see Gaza uh you can see the entire wids of Israel less than 60 kilomet to the Sea Gaza the West Bank that's all there is people don't realize how small Israel is in 19 97 Mishka B David comes up with his own hit list of hamus officials for the Prime Minister for the first time he talks openly on [Music] camera we made the list of them and uh then we went to prime minister Benjamin nany to present uh the list and Netanyahu after

23:55 reviewing the list uh decided that we must go for the heads of Hamas we started every attack that had taken place that year after discussing the issue we decided that Khaled M was behind the new wave of bombings and that we had to eliminate him the Target now has a name and a face khed M then a senior figure inside Hamas originally from the occupied territories he lived in Exile in Kuwait before moving to Jordan according to the Israelis he had directed operations from Jordan throughout the 1990s ordering dozens of suicide bombings in

24:45 Israel he was the head of hamas's political office but the term political office is misleading because it also dealt with the Muka the terrorist actions against Israel was the head of the office highly placed we believe to be able to order such attacks two months after the attack on the market in Jerusalem the decision is official Michelle must be eliminated but there's a problem Michelle is in Jordan a country Israel had signed a historic peace treaty with 3 years earlier in 1994 the treaty ended 30 years of

25:30 Confrontation between the two Neighbors on the day of the treaty President Bill Clinton had flown in to see Israeli Prime Minister Yak Rabin and King Hussein of Jordan to witness the signing in person this is peace with dignity this is peace with commitment this is our gift to our peoples and the generations to [Applause] come given the treaty it was difficult for Israel to secretly Kill An Enemy Inside Jordan but for Netanyahu eliminating

26:18 Michelle was a national priority Netanyahu doesn't want it to be an obvious clear uh operation uh we we call it he didn't want a big operation with explosives and lots of shooting natu said it has to be a quiet Mission even if it's something that maybe you're not familiar with the operation has to be conducted without anyone knowing I don't want to risk our relationship with Jordan

27:06 Mishka B David's men decide the most discreet way to kill Michal is to poison him the purpose of the poison was to create a fast but not too fast death of khed masal that could not be traced that could not be attribute to mad and and it would happen hours after all the uh operatives that were involved in the operation are all long gone and U out of ched but even to poison Michelle means getting close [Music] physically members of mad's assassination Squad therefore decide to take a look at the offices from where Michelle directs Hammer

27:52 operations the original plan was based on using two operatives they would wait behind one of the walls in asham's Center until khed masal came comes to work he exit the car he starts walking up the stairs towards his office they follow him and then one of them is holding the canister with the poisoned the other one is holding a well shaken Coca-Cola K One agent is spraying KH Mas back head with the poison and at the same time the other agent opens the Coca-Cola can and spraying Coca-Cola all over khed Mas mashel feels something wet in his uh

28:40 on on his head he turns around and all he sees is is one or two embarrassed tourists uh Canadian tourists apologizing I'm sorry for spraying you I'm sorry for ruing your shirt do you want any money for the dry cleaning Etc the purpose of the Coca-Cola was just to use a disguise for the moisture of the poison August 1997 30 days before D-Day the Mard hit squad are rehearsing in the open in the streets of Tel Aviv a can of Coke in one hand and a pretend poison spray in the other they practice on random passes by when it was implemented dozens and dozens of times in the streets of uh Israel it worked

29:28 yes they improved it all the time until they were quite sure that it's going to work in a Manus with a killing technique now perfected the mosad team under Mishka Ben David is due to head to the Jordanian Capital with fake Canadian passports here he is pretending to be a tourist enjoying himself as he visits the archaeological sites in Aman were you really visiting that or it was just for your cover it's combination I wanted to be there and of course I needed it for my cover you cannot be for a week a tourist in Jordan and not go anywhere just be in the in the hotel and that was maybe just the day before you

30:14 think it could be the day before or two days before yeah it could be it's definitely not the day after the operation gets underway it's the 25th of September 1997 the agents take up positions near the offices of khed Michal Mishka David sets up operational HQ at the InterContinental hotel with him is a mosad doctor in his bag an antidote to the poison in case an agent is infected not far away the two killers wait for the Target in front of his offices [Music]

31:00 and it's the target himself who now takes up the story A car pulled up in front of the building and I noticed two men on the pavement opposite I watched them they seemed strange and acted suspiciously when I got off the car instead of heading for my office I went round to the other side of the car to let my kids out I was meant to take them to the hairdressers and then when I was on the pavement even before getting to the entrance of the building the two men

31:46 attacked me to my right it was precisely what I was [Music] expecting they started to spray him with the poison and the Coca-Cola and instead of hitting his the back of his head they hit his ear I heard this very loud noise in my left ear and I felt like an electric shock all through my body the two agents started to run to the other direction and at the same time another Kamas operative came and saw the whole happening and he started to follow the two agents the two operatives that were going towards the getaway

32:31 car the car screaming away attracts the attention of a passing driver a prammer sympathizer intrigued he sets off in Hot Pursuit after the Mad agents the car chase winds through the streets of Aman after 800 M the two Israelis knowing they're being chased leap from the car they find themselves on some Wasteland still chased by the Jordanian the crowd soon forms trapped by the mob who forces them to a local police station the two agents are soon unmasked as mad operatives by Jordanian intelligence [Music] Services poolside at his hotel Mishka

33:19 Ben David is unaware he has a serious problem but that soon changes I was reading the book by DH Salinger at the swimming pool and then came a figure that belongs to the operational team and said the certain words that that had to be said to show that we are connected and um and said uh we have problems so I got up got dressed and uh and I was told that the two operatives that conducted operations were caught by by the mob uh that they could did

34:05 conduct the operation but then there was a gathering and they were caught 2 hours after the attack Michelle's condition is [Music] worsening I started feeling very ill at first and then I lost my balance I felt very weak I told my colleagues what had happened I said I was the victim of a bizarre murder attempt using a very effective method later on we discovered that it was a chemical weapon so I called not from my room HQ in Israel and I was told to take the

34:54 different operatives and bring them to the Embassy I knew where each one of them would be and I took them one by one and brought them to the Embassy to keep it lowkey Mishka bavid uses local taxes to get the agents to safety he doesn't know yet that Jordanian authorities have exposed the other two when informed King Hussein of Jordan is furious 1994 the king soon receives an important call from Israel peace treaty is still active his former Chief of Staff was present could have been C prime minister natany who called his majy King Hussein and he confirmed that

35:40 what happened to khed mashad was uh due to an operation by The Mad to assassinate [Music] him feeling betrayed and outraged King Hussein threatens to tear up the peace treaty treat he'd signed with Israel 3 years earlier mad Fiasco jeopardizes the stability of the entire region the day after the operation the king summons his government before the national and international media in front of the cameras the message is clear if Michelle dies of poisoning then the peace treaty dies with him one of our brothers has been the victim of a cruel attack it is totally unacceptable I've told our National

36:29 partners that the existence of the peace treaty depends on the life of this [Applause] man king Hussein threatens the Mad agents who have sought Refuge inside the Israeli Embassy in Aman died the Israeli Embassy was going to be stoned our troops came in and positioned themselves around the embassy and I informed this to the Ambassador and he told me

37:17 uh this is Israeli territory and according to Geneva conventions you cannot do that I said well if it has become a shelter for people who tried to assassinate a Jordanian then how is the Geneva Convention going to apply meanwhile in Aman's Military Hospital khed mesal is affected by continuing loss of balance and drowsiness his health is visibly deteriorating the doctor's prognosis is that he just has a few hours to live King Hussein instructs his personal doctor to save khed Michelle's life there were no sign of any intri no

38:03 needle bricks no no bruises in in the skin nothing and and examining him he he wants to sleep he said I'm weak I I just want to sleep and we we we we were talking to him and come on Mr Khaled take a breath open your eyes for me and the thing which strike me I when I examined his eyes the the pupils were constructed we call it pinpoint pupils that gives you more idea that this a very heavy dose of a narcotic was in his body the doctor is certain that Michal was poisoned with an unknown chemical

38:49 substance the Hamas leader is put on an artificial respirator the jordanians contact the Israelis again to ask about the chemical and the antidote Israeli Ambassador called me and he said he's been on the phone with uh prime minister Netanyahu who refused to release the uh uh the chemical that was injected to with Netanyahu being stubborn King Hussein plays one last card and calls President Bill Clinton in Washington with peace at stake the conversation is crucial President Clinton was very upset he listened very carefully to what king Hussein had to

39:36 say and he said referring to Netanyahu this man is impossible now he activated all his government offices and the American ambassador to put pressure on Israeli government to have them come up with the antidote and with the chemical that that was injected to Michelle with its back to the wall the Israeli government panics the lives of the two mad agents are threatened to save them they have to provide the antidote that will save Michelle when the head of mad told us that the mission had

40:21 failed the Prime Minister asked what's happened to our people the answer was there's a problem prime minister then said I don't care about the rest of it just get our two men home at all costs if we have to save Mich so be it the mission becomes saving the two operatives the means is Reviving Mas say their worst enemy life in all his 12 years at mosad this was a first for Mishka Ben

41:06 David from his hotel room and with a mosad doctor he will play the vital role in deciding the outcome of the affair both men have a file containing the antidote then I got a call from the head of operations saying go down to the lobby uh with the doctor there is a person from the Jordanian security his name is Captain FAS give him the antidote and the doctor should go with him and inject it to Marshall he was in uniforms and I went I said Captain FAS I said yes so I said here is the antidote and here is the doctor and he he was he he had a very

41:55 very severe look on his face I wouldn't call it a hateful look but very very severe and uh we didn't have any conversation except of this it is a very strange situation in the middle of a an operation uh to actually hand yourself over uh to to them and to have the doctor even go with them to inject it to mall the discussion between the Israeli and the Jordanian is Kurt the Mad Doctor is taken by the security services to give the antidote to the hospital director she gave me two vials with

42:42 adrenaline written on them but uh Ali told me we're going to use this so I immediately I thought we're not going to use anything unless we know what it is because it could be the poison and we could finish him off with it the jordanians are wary and don't want to take any risks they send the Mad vials to a laboratory for analysis 2 hours later the analysis shows it is indeed antidote for the [Music] poison after being injected Michelle slowly recovers from his coma the Hammer's leader comes back to life

43:28 [Music] only later do the jordanians Discover the poison was specially prepared for this one Mission it's not used in medicine it is a a synthetic narcotic like uh like the drug which we we use the fentel and if fentel which we use is 100 times more powerful than morphine imagine this drug is more powerful than the fentel W so we don't know how much maybe it's used for Elephants or something like this to put an elephant to sleep on the afternoon of 26th of September 1997 khed M's life is

44:15 saved for Mishka B David his enemy's Resurrection is ironically good news even if the mission was apparently a failure we failed in it uh actually the operative succeeded in the operation but were caught the Marshall was on his way to the other world but we had to reverse um the trend and to bring him back to life I'm alive but no thanks to the Israelis whose original objective had been to kill me but they failed and I'm still here because God wanted it that way and also because are my bodyguards and the courage of King

45:02 Hussein shaken by the whole incident and still Furious King Hussein still has the two mosad agents in custody in exchange for their freedom he demands the release of 50 Palestinian political prisoners being held in Israeli jails Israel accepts the deal 2 Days Later two helicopters fly over Aman one is flying in the released Palestinians to Jordan the other is heading in the opposite direction with the two mad agents Israel has one more humiliation to undergo when it's forced to free the founder of Hamas the Aged shikh Ahmed Yasin who had been in prison for 8 years a few days after the Michal Affair the handicapped Shake is given a hero's

45:49 welcome by the King of Jordan and later he returns triumphantly to Gaza it's a double BL for Mad m is alive and shik Yasin a free man nobody should underestimate what it took for Israel first to admit doing that give the antidote to KH mash and release Sheed from prison this is a major humiliation from Israel it was a failure that's true and the biggest disappointment is the fact that khed m is still alive live that's the biggest failure of the mission and then we had to liberate shik Yasin but we liquidated him a few years

46:34 later so that score was finally settled a score indeed settled s years later when three Israeli missiles strike the Hamas founder as he leaves his home in Gaza 200,000 Palestinians attend the funeral of the Shake in the crowd as fate would haveit is khed mhal the man whose narrow escape from mad now means he's lived to become the new leader of Hamas but a leader who's returned to a life in Exile this time in Qatar in December 2012 he returned as a hero to the Palestinian lands he'd left 37 years earlier it's the first time in 37 years

47:21 the time in Palestine and the very first time I've ever been to Gaza do you think he's still on the list I don't know if he's on the list uh or not I don't know what is the list is now what is the list now I have no idea I think that whenever Israel decide if Israel will decide to eliminate him Israel can do so um remember that it was done before the fact that we had to bring back back to life is is another issue but but uh but he was killed before

48:06 and so uh this this is a fact on the 19th of February 2010 mad will stage one of its most spectacular operations and under the very gaze of dozens of security cameras it's a world's first in this Dubai hotel the Mad hit team are tracking Mahmud El Mau a Hamas [Music] leader al-mu is suspected of smuggling weapons from Iran into Gaza for use by hamas's armed brigades [Music]

48:59 on the day of the attack the mosad unit is led by this bald man carrying a French passport at the start of the operation one of the team members stops inside a bathroom to put on a wig and change appearances a few moments later the Assassins entered the [Music] hotel off screen they'll break into the Hamas Leader's room and wait for their prey at 6:40 p.m. al-mu gets back to his room these are the last images showing him alive inside the Mad team is

49:48 waiting after tying him up they inject a neuromuscular relaxant his death will appear to be of natural causes one by one his muscles are paralyzed it's painful and takes some [Music] time could the agents not have known the hotel was littered with surveillance cameras in this video one of the agents looks directly at one of the hotel cameras but throughout the entire operation and on their passport photos all the agents are heavily disguised so as not to be identified false

50:33 names false noses false eyebrows false beards one person we spoke to confirmed this was the case yarin sheriff is a makeup artist working in fashion as a sideline he also helped disguise Israel's secret agents for 18 years for the first time he speaks publicly about his regular work with mad he says the interview was done with a knowledge and approval of the authorities even if I'm accredited to the defense Ministry I try not to ask

51:19 too many questions all I want to know is what concerns the country or where the Mad agents will operating I don't want to make these people feel uncomfortable by forcing them to talk the less you know the better if you put makeup on someone who's going to a Muslim country uh this beard for for example will help disguise them as a as a cleric but I don't like that actually what I'm interested in doing uh is what's needed what's specially adapted specific makeup for the country they'll be going to yarin sheriff knows that the agent's lives could depend on the quality of his

52:09 work you have to appreciate this isn't a joke I stick a little beard on of course but for them their lives are at risk the makeup artist says he wasn't involved in the Dubai operation but it's impossible to check but yarin sharaff is very familiar with the methods employed by the Commandos such as going into the bathroom to put on a wig it's a technique he's been teaching the Mad agents since the mid [Music] 1990s I sometimes teach them about adopting six or seven different looks the person has to learn how to

52:55 change looks very quickly if I give them special glue I also need to give them a means to take it off in just a few seconds it has to be 100% natural and the person has also to be 100% competent in changing appearances again and as quickly as [Music] possible according to Yin Shara mosad sometimes even gives its agents new teeth a technique probably used by some of the 20 agents sent to Dubai in January 2010 teeth are less frequent you can change the whole plaque which a dentist can work on you make a cast the person's mouth with a model like like this one and then you put the new teeth

53:43 in at the end of the training program the makeup artist subjects his pupils to one final test the last test we do is that after the training with me and my team here here at my house the agent has to disguise himself and then visit his mother or father if they don't recognize him then it's wored yarin Shara is one of a group of Israelis who are happy to make their professional skills available to mad and its special teams special ops that are often spectacular but that now make the Finger of Suspicion point at mosad whenever someone mysteriously disappears in the

54:29 Middle East one last thought did Israel murder yasa Arafat yat Mr yasa Arafat the president of the Palestinian Authority has died at the Percy military training Hospital in clamar in 2004 a Palestinian leader dies in a hospital in a suburb of Paris as a result of a mysterious illness mad is suspected immediately in July 2012 a laboratory in Lozan says it has found traces of polonium a radioactive element on arafat's clothing to allow further analysis the body of the longtime PLO leader is exhumed in November

55:16 2012 today the cause of his death is still unknown but to the Palestinians Israel Remains the number one suspect one day analysis or Witnesses might shed light on whether Arafat 2 was a victim of the notorious Hebrew proverb he who comes to kill you get up early and kill them first [Music]