Last week, for the first time in my life, I met an Israeli intelligence official, a retired Mossad agent. On April 7, I gave a lecture at Tel Aviv University on the state of Turkey’s Kurdish issue. Although the room was not as full as I had wished, the audience was not only sincerely interested in the subject but some interesting people were present. Such as Eliezer Geizi Tsafrir.
Tsafrir was the former head of Mossad stations in Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran and Lebanon. He is a former Shabak [Israeli secret service] and Mossad senior official, who also served as the prime minister’s adviser on Arab affairs. Since he retired, he has written at least three books in Hebrew — the first one is entitled, “Ana Kurdi: War and Escape in Kurdistan.”
