An earlier version of Mossad was published in Israel in 2010, where it stayed on the bestseller lists for seventy weeks, and received the gold, platinum, and diamond shields for breaking sales records. We want to thank first of all our Israeli publisher, Dov Eichenwald, director general of Yedioth Ahronoth publishing house, who conceived the idea and then encouraged and supported us all along the way.
We are deeply grateful to the former directors and agents of the intelligence community—we could name only a few of them—who helped us with information and advice.
Our research assistants Oriana Almassi and Nilly Ovnat made a tremendous effort to bring the project to life. Nilly Ovnat also assisted us greatly in preparing the rewritten and updated English version of Mossad.
In the U.S., we were happy to collaborate with our publisher, Dan Halpern, at HarperCollins/Ecco, and with our devoted editors, Abigail Holstein and Karen Maine. We also want to thank our copyeditor, Olga Gardner Galvin, for her X-ray eyes and inquisitive pencil.
This book appears almost simultaneously in more than twenty countries all over the world, and we greatly appreciate the efforts of our agents, Writers’ House of New York, especially of “Mr. Writers’ House,” Al Zuckerman, and the indefatigable foreign rights director Maja Nikolic.
Finally we thank our ladies, Galila Bar-Zohar and Amy Korman, for advising, reading, correcting, suggesting, arguing—and still apparently not giving up on us.
Michael Bar-Zohar
Nissim Mishal