Last week Ben-Gurion did it again. The spur for the leave-taking was the Lavon affair (TIME, Nov. 7), a five-year-old governmental scandal that has grown as complex and abstruse as a learned ...

The scandal, known as the Lavon Affair, led to Lavon's resignation and a political crisis that saw Ben-Gurion return to power. Operation Suzanna became a precedent for how Israel handled ...

allegedly playing a role in smuggling Egyptian Jews to Israel and taking part in a false flag operation known as the Lavon Affair. After making Aliyah in 1957, Cohen served in the IDF in military ...