the mad's Feats have inspired movies books and TV shows they've assassinated terrorists rescued hostages and hunted Nazis some lived deep undercover for years others have dawned outrageous costumes while Behind Enemy Lines but most blend into the Shadows they could be anyone they could be anywhere and you won't know they were there until long after they're gone but how do they get close to terrorist masterminds easy they just have to be smarter than them which which means they have to use strategies no one can see coming here are four of the mad's wildest [Music] stories since
its very first day as a state Israel has been dealing with shall we say unfriendly neighbors and thanks to a generous donor those neighbors have gotten pretty sophisticated over the past few decades which means that the Mad has had to get very creative ever hear the expression the fish rots from the head well I don't know if that's true of fish specifically but it's a good summary of The Mad strategy in this analogy the fish is a terrorist group which gets its orders from the hups the fish's head so the best way to disable a
group is to pick off its leaders but how do you do that well you can go to war which is bloody and expensive or you can use a small highly trained force that targets leaders and only leaders in order to minimize any civilian casualties fake passports elaborate disguises and a very real assassination of a top commander of the Palestinian organization Hamas but you don't get to the top of a terrorist organization if you don't have at least a few brain cells smart terrorists are always looking over the shoulders they don't trust anybody outside of their
tight Inner Circle so they're hard to spy on they don't use social media or traceable phones so they're hard to watch remotely they might not even sleep in the same bed every night how can a secret agent from an enemy country get to a guy like that well here are four different ways 1972 was a big year for the Olympics the games were returning to Germany for the first time since 1936 last time around Jews hadn't been allowed to compete but nearly 40 years later the Jewish state was sending 15 swimmers wrestlers Shooters fencers Sailors
and even one Walker in fact the Walker was a holocaust Survivor who escaped death yet again when Palestinian terrorists murdered 11 of the Israeli athletes theyve now said that there were 11 hostages two were killed in their rooms this yesterday morning nine were killed at the airport tonight they're all gone Israel didn't take kindly to this attack the Mad launched operation wrath of God to track down everyone who had been involved their big break came in October of 1972 when a Lebanese Source passed on the exact locations of the pl offices command posts and weapons
workshops in Beirut but the most exciting reveal was the home addresses of four poo Big Shots including a guy who had helped plan the Munich Massacre not that the information made the task any easier the Massad had to figure out how to sneak an elite combat unit into an enemy City blow up a bunch of PL offices and kill four of the pl's top brass in their homes all without hurting civilians or getting caught yikes so they called in the commander of Israel's most elite special force Who Would One Day become the Prime Minister his
plan was simple a force of 15 men would split up take down all the targets at the same time and then GTFO oh and half the guys would be wearing makeup and heels yep you heard that right in 1970s Beirut muscular hairy dudes usually didn't travel in a pack at 11:00 p.m. but in the so-called Paris of the Middle East a bunch of couples going out to a party barely merited a Second Glance they prepped for months and then on a spring night in 1973 Israel's most elite Commandos made their way to Beirut by boat
decked out in their cutest outfits Lebanon was an enemy state so none of the guys had ever been there before but thanks to their excellent intelligence they were able to find their targets quickly the Poo targets were dead in minutes it all seemed to be going smoothly until a stray bullet hit a car horn and woke up the entire street but the Lebanese police who I assume thought they were responding to a robbery were no match for the Commando units the firefight was over quickly and all the Commandos made it back to the boat in
Time things weren't going as well on the other side of town three Commandos were shot as soon as they were spotted approaching the pl headquarters but their Commander refused to aband the mission the remaining soldiers attached explosives to the building and they all rushed back to the meeting point from their rubber boat they watched the building collapse sending up a massive column of smoke they later learned that 35 members of the popular front for the liberation of Palestine had been inside the pflp was behind multiple hijackings bombings and murders including a massacre that killed 17
Puerto Rican tourists the next day the entire government of Lebanon tendered its resignation meanwhile Arab states across the region grappled with their new reality Israel was dead serious about Justice and the Jewish State could strike anywhere at any time but not every Mission requires an elite Strike Force in fancy outfits sometimes to catch a killer you got to be a little more subtle and that means that you need an unorthodox approach which brings us to the fashion of 1977 may have been goofy as hell but the situation in Israel was dead serious Israelis were up
to their ears in terrorism some of the worst attacks came from the popular front for the liberation of Palestine yep same clowns from our previous story The Massad may have taken down 35 members in 1973 but they kept their eye on the prize co-founder W Hadad who had been expelled from his own Organization for being too radical Hadad was a doctor who had chosen to devote vote his life to hurting people rather than to Healing them he moonlighted as a KGB agent taking care of Soviet defectors and other people that the Kremlin didn't like but
his real love was masterminding Terror attacks against Israelis the more intense the better but Hadad was not an easy guy to get close to for one he lived deep in the enemy territory of Beirut and his wife and kids never seemed to leave his side the few times they weren't around Hadad got insanely lucky surviving a bombing and an RPG through his window conventional means weren't going to work with this guy the Mad needed to get creative so a team of Israeli scientists developed a slow acting untraceable poison that would take months to actually eliminate
him and the best way to get it to build up in his body put it in his toothpaste one of hadad's henchmen or maybe Hench women was secretly working for the Mad to this day all we know about this double agent is their code name sadness part super spy part frontman for an emo band all sadness had to do is replace hadad's toothpaste with an identical tube let the poison do its job Hadad must have kept his teeth sparkling clean for months he lost weight then hair then blood but no doctor could explain why I
think there were other factors at play here what do you mean his team even reached out to the East German secret police the Stasi for help no luck Hadad died in an East German hospital at the age of 49 the official story was that he died of cancer but behind the scenes his colle colleagues and doctors were sure he'd been poisoned they just had no way to prove it this was a low signature assassination which meant that it was hard to trace or prove but not every mad operation is this clean pun intended which brings
us to another explosive Mission remember the early days of cell phones no me neither but back in the 9s few people thought about the fact that with the right technology anyone could trace or tap your phone Yash wasn't everyone the young Hamas Commander was a brilliant electrical engineer who had once dreamed of earning a masters abroad instead he joined Hamas using his expertise to construct suicide bombs that murdered 90 Israelis and wounded countless more there was no question about it the engineer had to go but aash was crafty switching up both his phone and his
bed constantly he didn't seem to have a social life Engineers am I right he was paranoid as all get out so it was impossible to sneak an agent into his inner circle until the Mad learned that he spent a lot of time with his childhood friend every time he visited he'd use his friend's phone to chat with Associates by which I mean fellow Hamas guys and their friends in Iran aasa's friend was loyal to a fault but the friend's Uncle turned out he could be bribed with a nice benefits package that included a new life
in the United States all he had to do was give aash a tiny new cell phone mad told him there was a transmitter inside for phone tapping purposes but that was a lie they didn't need to listen to A's heart tohe hearts with his dad they needed to get rid of him so they placed a tiny bomb inside the phone which was guaranteed to kill aash without hurting anyone else inside the house it worked as soon as the voice recognition expert gave the go-ahead Mad detonated the phone the line went dead and so was the
man who had murdered so many Israelis it was another successful Mission though perhaps one that should have come much earlier before aash ruined so many lives this was a relatively old school operation no poison no dress up their next attempt would be anything but old school but even the most technologically advanced operation can go wrong there were two explosions within 10 seconds of each other this moment must be the end of this bloody peace protest it's hard to believe that these news broadcasts came just 2 years after Israelis and Palestinians signed Peace Accords through it
all Hamas did their best to tank the whole peace thing unleashing a wave of Terror that killed scores of Israelis and Israelis were tired of it they just elected a new prime minister who had promised to keep them safe as prime minister it's my responsibility to do everything in my power to fight this terrorist evil and Netanyahu knew he had to deliver a significant blow to hamas's infrastructure the Massad chose khed mashal Deputy head of the Hamas political Bureau he lived in Aman but though Jordan and Israel were technically at peace the kingdom would not
appreciate an Israeli hit on Jordanian soil the operation had to be Swift silent and above suspicion M had to look like he died of natural causes so the Massad turned once again to their team of scientists who suggested level fenel to get the job done yes that fenel but here's the really crazy part instead of just sticking a needle in his arm and running away the Mad would use an ultrasound device to administer the poison don't ask me how that works because I don't understand this level of magic what sorcery is this but apparently all
the guy would feel was a puff of air and something kind of wet when he turned around to yell at whoever had just sprayed him all he'd see was two bumbling tourists holding an exploded can of soda and apologizing sounds genius right and it might have been if the agents were completely prepared but they weren't their cover stories were weak and they hadn't practiced for every scenario like for example what to do if Michelle's daughter was with him see every morning Michelle got into a car with his kids first he'd get dropped off at work
and by work I mean the HQ of a terrorist organization where he'd plann the best ways to murder people then the driver would take the kids to school mad knew the kids would be in the car when Michelle got dropped off what they didn't bargain on was his daughter running out of the car to give her dad One Last Hug the driver jumped out of the car to chase her which put him in the perfect position to see a guy standing behind his boss with his arms raised of course the driver had no idea that
the agent was wearing an ultrasound device filled with poison I mean that's not exactly the first thought I would have when I would see someone suspicious either he thought the guy had a knife so he shouted Khaled Khaled turned around the agent panicked and sprayed him in the ear KH looked at the agents agents looked at him and then they ran like hell they didn't even get to do their trick with the soda which apparently they' practiced constantly annoying everyone around them but things got even worse when another Hamas operative happened to see the agent
sprinting down the street they could have just knocked him out and ran away but instead they beat The Living Daylights out of him giving another Palestinian operative time to walk by and March them straight to a local police station where they pretended to be Canadian tourists but they couldn't fool the Canadian Council The Jig was up Hamas had already put out a statement saying that Israel and Jordan were in bed together and the country's 2 million Palestinians would not be happy if they learned that the king just let the Israelis go if he wanted to
hold on to his crown he'd have no choice but to publicly execute the two agents plus the other six accomplices hold up in the Israeli Embassy [Music] so now Israel had a choice a really really crappy choice they could let M die knowing they'd be condemning eight mad agents to a horrible public death or they could hand over the antidote and look really really stupid they chose to look stupid mha lived all the agents came home safely and so did hundreds of Palestinian prisoners who Israel was forced to release as a way to save oops
sorry as of 2024 by the way Michelle is still alive and well in kutar yeah it was a major bungle even Legends make mistakes but the most successful missions are the ones you never hear about the ones that get Declassified after 50 years and sound Stranger Than Fiction I'm not a betting guy but I'm willing to put money on the fact that over the next few years Israeli secret agents are going to go on some pretty wild missions after all the Israeli government has vowed to take down every single person who plan the attack of
October 7th and I have no doubt that they mean every word
