Photos Section
Gamal Mubarak, son of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, reaches out to console Ashraf Marwan’s widow, Mona Abdel Nasser—daughter of former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser—at Marwan’s funeral in July 2007. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Ashraf Marwan and Mona Nasser on their wedding day, July 1966. (AFP Photo/STR)
Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, with his youngest son to his left, meets his first grandson, Gamal Marwan, in April 1967. Nasser’s wife, Tahia, holds the baby while Ashraf looks on. (AP Photo)
Gamal Abdel Nasser with his wife, his two daughters, and their husbands. Ashraf Marwan stands next to Mona on the far right. (Copyright © Maher Attar/Sygma/Corbis)
Zvi Zamir, director of the Mossad from 1968 to 1974, at his home near Tel Aviv in the early 1970s. (Courtesy of Zvi Zamir)
Lt. Col. Meir Meir receives the rank of colonel from the IDF chief of staff, Lt. Gen. David Elazar. Behind Meir is Military Intelligence chief, Maj. Gen. Aharon Yariv. Standing between them is Meir’s wife, Gita. (Courtesy of the Meir family)
Israeli prime minister Golda Meir inscribed this December 1971 photograph of herself and American president Richard Nixon to Zvi Zamir. At the bottom she wrote: “To Zvika, in good friendship, Golda.” (Courtesy of Zvi Zamir)
Maj. Gen. Eli Zeira, Israel’s director of Military Intelligence during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, exposed Ashraf Marwan as an Israeli spy. (Courtesy of the IDF Archive)
Israeli defense minister Moshe Dayan, in the early 1970s. (Courtesy of the IDF Archive)
On September 7, 1973, President Sadat signed a unity declaration with Libya as Col. Muammar Gaddafi looks on. Ashraf Marwan, in charge of Egypt’s relations with Libya, stands in the back row, center. To his left is Libyan prime minister and personal friend, Abdessalam Jalloud. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
Israeli prime minister Golda Meir at a press conference on the first day of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. (Courtesy of the IDF Archive)
David Elazar, chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces during the 1973 war. (Courtesy of the IDF Archive)
Ashraf Marwan in London toward the end of the 1990s. (AFP Photo/STR)
Ashraf Marwan fell from a fifth-floor balcony of Carlton House (right). His body was found in the yellow rose garden. The group that was waiting for him watched his fall from a window in the Institute of Directors (left). (Courtesy of Heathcliff O’Malley)
About the Author
URI BAR-JOSEPH is a professor of political science at the University of Haifa and a world-renowned expert on Israeli intelligence. He has written numerous scholarly works, including six books on intelligence, strategy, and the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. He served for fifteen years as an active and reserve-duty intelligence analyst in the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) Intelligence/Research Division. He lives in Tel Aviv.
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Cover design by Milan Bozic
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Copyright
THE ANGEL. Copyright © 2016 by Uri Bar-Joseph. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Originally published as Hamal’ach in Israel in 2010, 2011 by Kinneret Zmora-Bitan.
FIRST U.S. EDITION
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bar-Joseph, Uri, author; Hazony, David, translator.
[ha-Mal’akh. English]
The angel : the Egyptian spy who saved Israel / Uri Bar-Joseph; translated from the Hebrew-language edition by David Hazony.
ISBN 978-0-06-242010-7
1. Marw’an, Ashraf, 1944–2007. 2. Politicians—Egypt—Biography. 3. Spies—Israel—Biography. 4. Spies—Egypt—Biography. 5. Israel. Mosad le-modi’in ve-taf’kidim meyu’hadim. 6. Israel-Arab War, 1973—Military intelligence—Israel.
DT107.828.M375 B3713 2016
327.125694062092—dc23 2015042832
EPub Edition AUGUST 2016 ISBN 9780062420121
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