Spies of No Country

- Matti Friedman

Award-winning writer Matti Friedman’s tale of four Israeli spies who became the founding members of Mossad, Israel’s vaunted intelligence agency. These four spies were all Jewish, born in Arab countries, who went undercover in Beirut in 1948. This story is the history of the creation of Mossad as well as Israel’s own complicated history.

Author: Matti Friedman - Canadian Israeli Journalist and author. In 1995, he immigrated to Israel and served in the IDF before becoming an AP Journalist. Later in his career, he drew attention with a pair of essays that criticized the media and called out their anti-Israel bias, including the AP.