“The Mossad is like the official hangman or like the doctor in the Death Room who administers the lethal injection. Your every action is approved of by the State of Israel. When you murder, you do not violate the law. You execute a sentence approved of by the incumbent prime minister.” Meir Amit (General Director of the Mossad, 1963 - 1968) The subject matter of this review is a book published by the New York Publishing House St. Martin Griffin called GIDEON’S SPIES - The Secret History of the Mossad. It was translated into 16 languages and was transformed into a documentary for BBC’s Channel 4. The book is the result of a 3-year detailed study, since the author was allowed to interview key people from the structures of the Mossad. Gordon Thomas is a British writer who published over 53 books that were sold in more than 45 million copies. Moreover, two of his books were adapted for television. The author confessed in an interview that he would not write another book about the Israeli espionage, because he was the victim of many threats from various interest groups. Convinced that he would be arrested in the Tel Aviv airport upon his departure from Israel, Gordon entrusted his friends with the manuscript of the book and they managed to get it out of the country. This may account for be the lack of reference books on the subject of the Mossad. There are over 200 and 51 books published about the CIA (the American espionage service) and the MI5 (the British service) respectively. The cover of Gordon’s book reads the following conclusion: “This is one of the few books which encapsulated the true nature of the Government of Israel and the thinking process of the Israeli political elite.” (Ari Ben-Menashe, counselor to the Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir). “MOSSAD” is the Israeli state institution created on March, 2nd, 1951, with the mission of eternal espionage. In Hebrew,