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The Israeli intelligence firm played a huge role in obtaining the medical apparatus and wisdom for the pandemic.
By Ronen Bergman
TEL AVIV, Israel – When the Israeli health minister learned that he was inflamed by the coronavirus this month, all senior officials in close contact with him were quarantined, adding one that stood out: the director of Mossad, the prominent Israeli spy. a service.
Mossad officers, mainly related to covert operations in the call of protective Israel, are not usually in the public health box.
The Israelis were intrigued.
Why would Mossad’s director Yossi Cohen, an important figure in the country, even be in the same room as health minister Yaakov Litzman?
It turns out that Cohen’s tough company has been deeply concerned about Israel’s fight against the virus and has been one of the country’s most valuable assets for the acquisition of medical devices and production technologies abroad, according to Israeli fitness and safety officials.
As countries around the world fight fiercely for limited anti-pandemic materials, they turn to any aid they can obtain and mobilize braided.
And with the Mossad discovering that Iran, which is facing its own coronavirus crisis, no longer poses an immediate threat to security, the company could plunge into a fitness emergency, according to several others familiar with its operations.
Initial predictions of the number of deaths from the virus in Israel were disastrous, so far proved too pessimistic. With nearly 11,000 cases of viruses now shown and 103 deaths, Israel is not among the hardest hit countries in the world.
“The maximum rate of expansion has been us for about two weeks, and it will probably be almost completely minimized in two weeks,” said an article published Sunday through Professor Isaac Ben Israel of Tel Aviv University.
But in early February, officials at Sheba Medical Center, Israel’s largest hospital, learned that they needed more enthusiasts and other equipment. And at that time, Professor Yitshak Kreiss, director general of the hospital, met with Mr. Cohen, the head of the Mossad, on a personal occasion involving a mutual friend, which is not uncommon in a small country where senior officials travel in the country. same social circles.
By that time, Mr. Cohen had already begun to assess how Mossad could help the Israeli health care system. Professor Kreiss stated that he had indexed the maximum wishes of the pressing apparatus to Mr. Cohen, who received other lists from the Department of Health, and the Mossad began activating his foreign network to locate the mandatory elements.
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