| ID | 127937 |
| Title Proper | Misuse of power in Israeli intelligence |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Kahana, Ephraim ; Sharfman, Daphna |
| Publication | 2014. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | One of the relatively minor security organizations in the Israeli Ministry of Defence, the MALMAB - tasked with protecting Israel's well-known policy of nuclear ambiguity - has gone beyond the usual criminal process established by the rule of law to the grey area of interrogating and even harassing people who seemed to not abide by its strict policies, thus highlighting the tension between legal rules and non-legal sanctions exercised in the name of national security. This article analyses three different cases connected to the issue of nuclear ambiguity, while aiming to debate the sensitive issue, prominent in every democracy, of the limits and balance of security versus democracy. |
| `In' analytical Note | Israel Affairs Vol. 20, No.1; Jan 2014: p.62-74 |
| Journal Source | Israel Affairs Vol. 20, No.1; Jan 2014: p.62-74 |
| Key Words | MALMAB ; Yehiel Horev ; Mordechai Vanunu ; Avner Cohen ; Yossi Sarid ; Director of Security of the Defence Establishment (DSDE) National Security ; Intelligence |