(Middle East Eye-UK) Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv - In recent weeks, the Mossad has let the world's media run wild with exaggerated tales of Jewish 007s craftily smuggling goods to their country's hospitals. The truth is far simpler. The Mossad's main role is managing a national control center. The decision-makers, however, are dozens of doctors, experts and officials from the ministries of health, finance and defense, who coordinate the battle against the coronavirus pandemic. They have actually done quite well, as the death toll in Israel is lower than was feared. One key to success is a tracking system far more intrusive than anything any Western government would feel it can do. The Israel Security Agency was ordered to send a text message to any Israeli who came within a few yards of a known coronavirus sufferer. The capability to know the location of every mobile phone in the country is one that Israeli intelligence wields to locate terrorists and their accomplices. As for procuring equipment, Israel has signed contracts to import 14,000 ventilators, tons of oxygen, and tens of millions of masks, gloves, goggles and gowns for health workers. The purchases were from commercial suppliers in China and Europe. None of it was stolen.
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