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WATCH: The Mossad scandal Israel tried to bury
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In 1954, Israel carried out a high-stakes spy mission in Egypt that went catastrophically wrong.
Young Egyptian Jews were sent to sabotage key sites, but the operation was exposed by a double agent, leading to arrests, brutal interrogations, and lasting political fallout.
The Lavon Affair became one of Israel’s most controversial intelligence failures, revealing betrayal, misjudgment, and the human cost behind a secret operation that history tried to hide for decades.
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