An Israel Spymaster's Memoir Sets the Stage for His Move on Netanyahu

In a new self-important memoir, former Mossad boss Yossi Cohen extols his daring exploits and now plots to replace his former patron.

Yossi Cohen in 2023. © AFP 2023 / GALI TIBBON.

Yossi Cohen, the former head of Mossad, does not conceal his longing to supplant Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel's next prime minister.

Much like Charles de Gaulle, who bided his time in his country house for 13 years after the end of World War Two, waiting for the French people to summon him to save the republic, Cohen, cloaked in the luxury of a spacious office in a towering Tel Aviv skyscraper, waits for Israelis to call him forth.