Gad Shimron is an Israeli journalist, author and military affairs commentator.

Biography

Shimron was born in Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...

 in 1950. Shimron is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ; ; abbreviated HUJI) is Israel's second-oldest university, after the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The Hebrew University has three campuses in Jerusalem and one in Rehovot. The world's largest Jewish studies library is located on its Edmond J...

 in History

History

History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

 and the study of Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia, South-East Asia, South East Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia. The region lies on the intersection of geological plates, with heavy seismic...

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During the 1970s and 1980s, Shimron was a member of different elite operative units of the Mossad

Mossad

The Mossad , short for HaMossad leModi'in uleTafkidim Meyuchadim , is the national intelligence agency of Israel....

 for ten years.

During the 1990s, Shimron served as the European correspondent for the Israeli daily newspaper Ma'ariv, worked as a journalist in the news department of Israel's public domestic and international radio service Kol Yisrael

Kol Yisrael

Kol Yisrael is Israel's public domestic and international radio service, operated as a division of the Israel Broadcasting Authority.-History:...

and presented the morning show in the Israeli Channel 1

Channel 1 (Israel)

Channel 1 is one of the oldest television channels in Israel and one of five terrestrial channels in the country...

. Shimron continued to work for Ma'ariv until he was fired from the newspaper in 2008.

In addition, Shimron has published seven fiction and non-fiction books on intelligence

Intelligence

Intelligence has been defined in different ways, including the abilities for abstract thought, understanding, communication, reasoning, learning, planning, emotional intelligence and problem solving....

, security

Security

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 and the history of the Crusaders

Crusaders

The Crusaders are a New Zealand professional rugby union team based in Christchurch that competes in the Super Rugby competition. They are the most successful team in Super Rugby history with seven titles...

, in Hebrew, English, French and German.

Publications

- the book has been translated into French under the name "Mossad's secret hysteria." - The full story of the only Mossad operation which was aimed at eliminating a Nazi war criminal (Herberts Cukurs

Herberts Cukurs

Herberts Cukurs was a Latvian aviator. He was a member of the notorious Arajs Kommando and was involved in murders of Latvian Jews as part of the Holocaust but he never stood trial. There are eyewitness accounts linking Cukurs to war crimes...

). Translated to English, German and Latvian. - the book focuses on the Mossad's covert operation which brought the Ethiopian Jews

Beta Israel

Beta Israel Israel, Ge'ez: ቤተ እስራኤል - Bēta 'Isrā'ēl, modern Bēte 'Isrā'ēl, EAE: "Betä Ǝsraʾel", "Community of Israel" also known as Ethiopian Jews , are the names of Jewish communities which lived in the area of Aksumite and Ethiopian Empires , nowadays divided between Amhara and Tigray...

 to Israel from Sudan

Sudan

Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...

. Translated into English under the name Mossad Exodus . - a historic novel based on the Crusader period in the region of Palestine

Kingdom of Jerusalem

The Kingdom of Jerusalem was a Catholic kingdom established in the Levant in 1099 after the First Crusade. The kingdom lasted nearly two hundred years, from 1099 until 1291 when the last remaining possession, Acre, was destroyed by the Mamluks, but its history is divided into two distinct periods....

. - a political thriller about the Israeli Prime Minister blackmailed by his wife. - the book focuses on Special forces

Special forces

Special forces, or special operations forces are terms used to describe elite military tactical teams trained to perform high-risk dangerous missions that conventional units cannot perform...

 in the armies of the world. - a historical novel based on a true story

Operation ATLAS

Operation ATLAS was the code name for a failed operation carried out by a special commando unit of the Nazi Waffen SS which was held in October 1944 ands aimed at poisoning the Drinking water resources of the residents of Tel Aviv - specifically the water extraction facility of the Rosh HaAyin...

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External links

• Interview with Gad Shimron on BBC World - published on 17 February, 2010
• All of Gad Shimron's columns in Ma'ariv (Hebrew)