by Eli Leon and Israel Hayom Staff
"Harpoon: Inside the Covert War against Terrorism's Money Masters" offers a glimpse into Israel's financial warfare against terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah
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Shurat Hadin Israeli
Law Center Chairwoman Nitsana Darshan-Leitner
Photo: Shurat Hadin
Israeli Law Center
Israel's
financial warfare on terrorist organizations such as Hamas and
Hezbollah has become an inspiration to the international community,
Shurat Hadin Israeli Law Center Chairwoman Nitsana Darshan-Leitner
reveals in her new book.
"Harpoon: Inside the Covert War against Terrorism's Money Masters" also touches on the role played by the Mossad,
Israel's national intelligence agency, in U.S. litigation that she has
pursued against the international financing of Israel's enemies.
The book, named after the code name of the
Mossad finance-tracking unit Darshan-Leitner worked with, lays out how
Israel targets terrorist groups in complex financial operations,
instigating losses in the tens of millions of dollars through bad
investments and raids on banks and other financial institutions linked
to the funding of terrorism.
The book describes how former Mossad
Director Meir Dagan introduced economic warfare against terrorist groups
in the late 1990s, which led to a dramatic decrease in Hamas suicide
bombings and Hezbollah rocket fire.
Dagan believed that eliminating terrorist organizations' financial
infrastructure should be one of the intelligence agency's top
priorities.
The task force he assembled comprised
intelligence officers who worked with bankers, lawyers and tax experts
using innovative methods to undermine the terrorists' fund-raising
networks worldwide.
"The Israeli task force understood before
anyone else that money was the terrorist networks' lifeline and that it
was possible to cause them significant damage by stifling them
economically," Darshan-Leitner said.
Eli Leon and Israel Hayom Staff
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/2017/11/07/israels-financial-war-on-terrorism-inspired-the-world-book-reveals/
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