Once dubbed “The Model” by the Israeli press, the former director of Mossad now steps into the open with his new book The Sword of Freedom (Broadside Books, £25).

Part memoir and part manifesto, it offers rare insight into his decades at the heart of Israel’s most secretive operations.

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