Join us for a thrilling evening as Yossi Cohen, former Director of Mossad, makes his only UK appearance to launch his new highly-anticipated book, The Sword of Freedom.
For more than forty years, Yossi Cohen served the state of Israel in various roles within the Mossad, rising to Deputy Director in 2011; then as National Security Advisor (2013) and finally as the Director of the Mossad from 2016 until his retirement in 2021. He’s been involved in, and commanded, thousands of operations–some making headlines around the world and changing the course of history, such as stealing Iran’s nuclear archive in 2018 and more recently, the remarkable successes against Hezbollah and Iran.
In The Sword of Freedom, Yossi pulls back the curtain on how Israel has defied existential threats by outwitting its adversaries and building the world’s most cutting-edge defense system. Blending personal stories and tales of his own escapades into Israeli history, he reveals how Israel transformed itself from a vulnerable state to a global power. For anyone looking to better understand Israel’s history and the region’s future, Yossi’s deeply personal and highly inspiring story is essential reading.
Signed books are available for purchase with your ticket, and will also be available for purchase on the night.
Yossi will be in conversation with Jonathan Freedland. Jonathan is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Save the World (National Jewish Book Award winner in both the Biography and Holocaust categories), the recently published The Traitors Circle: The Rebels Against the Nazis and the Spy Who Betrayed Them; a weekly columnist for the Guardian and previously the Guardian’s Washington correspondent. Freedland is the host of the Guardian's Politics Weekly America podcast; he presents BBC Radio 4's The Long View and is co-host of the Unholy podcast, alongside the journalist Yonit Levi. He is also the author of several thrillers under the pseudonym Sam Bourne and is a past winner of the Orwell Prize for Journalism.
