Rise and Kill First
Front cover page of the book. | |
| Author | Ronen Bergman |
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| Translator | Ronnie Hope |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Random House |
Publication date | February 1, 2018 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 750 |
| Website | riseandkillfirst.com |
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations is a 2018 book by Ronen Bergman about the history of targeted assassinations by Israel's intelligence services. Its author writes that Israel has assassinated more people than any western country since World War II. It portrays the assassinations of British government officials, Hamas, Hezbollah and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leaders, and Iranian nuclear scientists. To write the book, Bergman carried out about a thousand interviews with political figures and secret agents and consulted "thousands" of documents.