Fact check
Is it true: Lavon Affair: Israeli false-flag bombings in Egypt (1954)?
Yes — this is confirmed.
Israel officially acknowledged Operation Susannah in 2005, when President Moshe Katsav presented certificates of appreciation to surviving operatives. Egyptian-Jewish agents recruited by Israeli military intelligence bombed British and American targets in Cairo and Alexandria in 1954, intending attribution to the Muslim Brotherhood. The network was exposed, two operatives were executed, and Defence Minister Lavon resigned.
The claim
The Lavon Affair (also called Operation Susannah) was a failed Israeli covert operation in 1954 in which Egyptian-Jewish agents recruited by Israeli military intelligence carried out a series of bombi
Key evidence
Israel officially acknowledged the operation in 2005
Israeli Involvement Was Exposed Rapidly and the Political Fallout Was Internal
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