Yossi Cohen (born 1961) is an Israeli intelligence officer who served as the director of Mossad, Israel's national intelligence agency, from 2016 to 2021. He previously served as a senior Mossad official and as National Security Advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen, in an interview on The Times podcast, harshly criticized the British government's stance on Israel.
"This is very bad politics. You must show full support as we supported you when you suffered from terrorism," Cohen said.
He also revealed what a former head of MI5 once told him: "Yossi, you deserve an Oscar. You thwarted a huge amount of terrorist activity inside the UK."
Israeli spies entered Iran's Fordow nuclear site multiple times to study it, former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen revealed. During his 2016-2021 tenure, he said, Mossad planned what would have been "the greatest operation in the history of our country."
Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen on the strike on Fordow: "We visited the Fordow nuclear site many times to understand it. The bombing of the site by the Americans is the fulfillment of all my dreams. 60 percent enriched uranium is still far from a bomb."