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Source: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/mi5-chief-mossad-terrorism-plot-uk-n2t6g7j80
Ex-Mossad Chief: MI5 Praised Us for Foiling Terror Plots in UK
(The Times-UK) Tom Newton Dunn - Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen, director of Israel's foreign intelligence service from 2016-2021, told a Times podcast this week that Mossad had "saved many, many lives on British soil." Cohen said, "I quote your former director of MI5 who said, 'Yossi, you deserve the Oscar for what you did here. You have disrupted a huge quantity of terror activity inside the UK. Thank you very much for doing it.' I think that the UK government should do exactly the same. I think that the UK has to be super supportive to the State of Israel, as we had been to you when you had suffered terrorism on your lands." Cohen said that UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham's condemnation of Israel last month crossed a line. "Criticism is OK, but opposing what we're doing is not OK. The State of Israel never initiated this war in Gaza. The terrorists did, Hamas and Islamic Jihad did." Cohen also revealed that some of Mossad's most effective operations simply leveraged its ruthless reputation without the need for any violent actions. "People have left their positions in defense organizations in Tehran because we told them, 'we know you.' We've sent them flowers to their houses and to their families saying, 'Hello Mahmoud, or whatever, we know that you work for the nukes and you may be next. So better for you to leave what you're doing right now.' And they've left."