Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations is a 2018 book by Ronen Bergman that chronicles the history of targeted assassinations by Israel's intelligence services. Bergman conducted over a thousand interviews with political figures and secret agents and consulted thousands of documents to write the book, which reveals that Israel has carried out more assassinations than any Western country since World War II, with at least 2,700 operations in the past 70 years. The book describes the tactics and personalities involved in these assassinations, including the use of poisoned toothpaste, armed drones, and exploding mobile phones, and names several high-profile targets, including leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the PLO, as well as Iranian nuclear scientists.learn more on wikipedia