For the first time in history, the head of Mossad was a native of the Soviet Union.

Major General Roman Gofman officially took over as head of Israel's foreign intelligence service, the Mossad, replacing David Barnea. The ceremony took place on June 2 at the agency's headquarters, attended by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called the fight against Iran's nuclear program the new intelligence chief's top priority.

Hoffman was born in 1976 in the Belarusian city of Mozyr and immigrated to Israel from the USSR with his family in 1990. He began his military career in the armored forces, later commanding the 7th Armored Brigade and the 210th HaBashan Division. In 2024, Hoffman was appointed Military Secretary to the Prime Minister, and five years earlier, he had become one of the first representatives of the "Great Aliyah" (mass immigration from the USSR and the CIS) to be promoted to brigadier general. His appointment as head of the Mossad was fraught with legal complications, but the High Court of Justice of Israel rejected all petitions against his candidacy.

Adviser to the Israeli Prime Minister's Office Dmitry Gendelman called this event historical, emphasizing that Hoffman became a representative of repatriates from the former USSR, occupying the highest post in the country's security structures.

As of 2025, approximately 1,2 million immigrants from the former Soviet Union and their family members reside in Israel. Israel's total population is approximately 10 million.

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[Sergey Kirakosyan]

Are we proud or whatever...?!

[Tusv]

Quote: Sergey Kirakosyan

Are we proud or whatever...?!

There were even worse times, when 2/3 of their Knesset's native language was Russian.

[Seal]

Well, yes. Again. Levi Eshkol (born Levi-Yitzchok Shkolnik) was the third Prime Minister of Israel (1963 to 1969). He was born on October 25, 1895, in the town of Orativ (Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire, now Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine) to a wealthy family. His mother was from a Hasidic family, and his father was an estate manager.
Golda Meir. Golda Mabovich was born on April 21, 1898, in Kyiv, to Movsha-Itsko Zelikovich Mabovich, a tradesman from the Pinsk-Karolina community in Minsk province, and Bluma-Freida Mabovich (née Naidich). Of the family's eight children, five (four boys and a girl) died in infancy. Only Golda and her two sisters—the eldest, Sheyna (1889–1972), and the youngest, Tsipa—survived. Her father worked as a carpenter, and her mother was unemployed. Her paternal grandfather, Meer-Zelik Mabovich, was a cantonist and, after completing his service in the Russian Imperial Army, was granted the right to reside outside the Pale of Settlement, including in Kyiv. Moishe-Itzhak and his family moved there in search of work, but lacking funds, in 1903 he sent his wife and children to Pinsk, to the home of Golda's grandfather. In 1903, my father left for the United States to find work, where he changed his name to Morris, found work at a railroad depot, and became a member of the carpenters' union. In 1906, the rest of the family arrived in America.

[Ulysses]

Just ignore it as trash "news".

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Sergey Kirakosyan

Are we proud or whatever...?!

So, should we clap our hands to show that he was born in the BSSR?
If anyone sees any benefit in this, let them count how many of today's Bandera-led Ukrainian leaders were born in the Ukrainian SSR. And how many of them entered 1991 at a relatively mature age.

Quote: Ulysses

Just ignore it as trash "news".

[tsvetahaki]

Quote: Sergey Kirakosyan

Are we proud or whatever...?!

To grieve.
That talented people not only in science, art, engineering, but also military personnel, intelligence officers, and counterintelligence officers left the country.
And they bring enormous benefits. But not to us.

[APASUS]

Quote from tsvetahaki

To grieve.
That talented people not only in science, art, engineering, but also military personnel, intelligence officers, and counterintelligence officers left the country.
And they bring enormous benefits. But not to us.

As for me, I should be happy. If he wanted to help us, then nothing would stop him.

[Lisa Kerner-Timoshenko]

These types left for where it was more profitable for them, because they have no conscience and no character!
By the way, this also applies to "Russian Germans"!

[Alexfly]

I agree. Whenever a country collapses, people leave, especially the most proactive ones... To keep them from leaving, the country must be as strong as flint... and strong, and rich... and not just a select few and those close to the table...

[Doctor]

Are we proud or whatever...?!

Father is proud. He sent a Cossack.

[Mikhail Drabkin]

Oil refineries are burning, Crimea and Taganrog have been reset, and VO is writing about the Mossad leadership. It's the fifth year of the SVO.

Sur…!

[Lisa Kerner-Timoshenko]

What can you expect from Jews who go to J..land or to the country of their murderers, Germany???
I just ask the site administration not to scold me for such letters!!!

[yuri.]

Of course we are. We are proud of Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Sverdlov, Uritsky, Madame Pugacheva, Galkin, and others, and even named cities, squares, and streets in their honor, erecting monuments. Incidentally, the USSR provided military assistance in the creation of Israel. The USSR supplied them with its own instructors. Glory to Comrade Marx and his followers.

[K-50]

For the first time in history, the head of Mossad was a native of the Soviet Union.

Will this affect anything?
Brzezinski was also from the USSR. Somehow, it didn't work out for the better.

[Sergej1972]

Brzezinski was not originally from the USSR.

[K-50]

Quote: Sergej1972

Brzezinski was not originally from the USSR.

It's strange, I read that he is from the outskirts of Kiev.
Did the realities really not match?

[Word]

No mistake, born in the Polish embassy on the outskirts.

[Michael]

Quote: K-50

It's strange, I read that he is from the outskirts of Kiev.
Did the realities really not match?

He's from the outskirts of Warsaw, and conspiracy theorists might even agree that he's from the outskirts of Nibiru and a biorobot grown in a test tube.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: K-50

It's strange, I read that he is from the outskirts of Kiev.

There are two points of view on the internet: he was born in Warsaw, and he was born in the Polish consulate in Kharkov and was recorded by his parents as having been born in Warsaw.
The second could well have been, given my father’s profession.

My youngest sister was born in Magdeburg, where my father was stationed. We received a certificate from the GDR maternity hospital, which was used to obtain a birth certificate from the civil registry office in Moscow, where we had never lived, listing our place of birth as "Moscow." We were getting ready to go home; my father's assignment was ending, and he decided to register her in the Soviet Union.
At the same time, I have many acquaintances just like my sister and I, children of officers, whose passports say Magdeburg, Berlin, or some other (I still don’t know the correct spelling) Hungarian “Shekesvaresperesh.”
S. Brilyov, who often appears on television these days, was actually born in Havana. His parents worked in international trade.

Diplomats, military personnel, and anyone who works extensively abroad often find it hard to find out where they were born. No one would have told my sister she was born in the GDR—and how would she have known, if she spent the first two months of her life there?

[esl462]

It's simple, Székesfehérvár. Or just székes.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote from esl462

Szekesfehervarar

For me, such names are unpronounceable. I need to learn it specially.
I remember that everyone whose fathers served in Hungary had Pioneer ties that were different from ours—crimson, made of knitwear rather than rayon, and with well-finished edges. In Poland, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia, there were no such ties—they had the same ones as us. I wasn't a Pioneer in East Germany yet, so I only wore Soviet ones.

[tatarin1972]

No, he was born in Warsaw. His father, at the time of his birth, was working at the consulate in Lille.

[Vic Vic]

Brzezinski was born in Poland

[Victor19]

Yasha, new people have followed in your footsteps. Soon this young man will be appearing on Channel 1 and explaining how to fight the West and the Banderites.

[Vic Vic]

Perhaps after resignation and in retirement

[commbatant]

Quote: Victor19

Soon this native will be speaking on Channel 1 and telling how to fight the West and the Banderites.

But Yakov Kedmi (originally from Taganka), as the former head of the NATIV special service, appears on Solovyov's program... Who will stop him from appearing on Solovyov's program after retiring and receiving Putin's permission to return to Russia?

[Radical]

Quote: Victor19

Yasha, new ones have followed in your footsteps. Soon this native will be appearing on Channel 1 and explaining how to fight the West and the Banderites.

[quote][/quote] Who the hell is going to help him?

[Michael]

Roman Gofman has officially assumed the post of head of Israel's foreign intelligence service, the Mossad.

You look at a photograph and immediately the imperishable comes to mind.

[Pimply]

Well, just like in the movie, it all depends on perception, right? )))

[Michael]

Quote: Pimply

Well, just like in the movie, it all depends on perception, right? )))

Right.
"27 For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each person according to his deeds.
28 Truly I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom." (King James Version).
By the way, yes, I remembered an old joke about the time the Leningrad group was performing at a corporate event and the lights suddenly went out!

[Bad_gr]

Quote: Michael

You look at a photograph and immediately the imperishable comes to mind.

If you ask a simple passerby where this person in the photo is from, it is unlikely that anyone will say that he is a resident of Russia from the indigenous population (or that he is Russian).

[OSE4Kinsura]

Handsome and talented! It's a pity he doesn't serve in our army! But he wouldn't have grown up here! My life! Stinking dog! Because Nekuy!

[Pimply]

What's true is true. Several wounds. A brilliant career, in several cases he actually skipped promotions—not through connections, but due to his brilliant abilities. More than once, he publicly said things that were quite unpleasant for the army leadership, things that weren't even in the mainstream at the time. If not for his appointment to the Mossad, he would have been a clear candidate for the post of Chief of the General Staff within three years. Incredible work ethic, glowing reviews from his subordinates. On October 7th, while on leave, he rushed to an intersection where terrorists were expected to pass and engaged directly with his personal weapon. He killed two, was seriously wounded, but held off the terrorists until other forces arrived.

[SEVERIN]

His appointment as head of the Mossad was fraught with legal complications, but the High Court of Justice of Israel (High Court of Justice) rejected all petitions against his candidacy.

- So, a defector from the Soviet Union became the head of Mossad, so what? - What does that change? - No matter where in the world a Jew ends up, he will remain a Jew.

[Eugene 62]

Hoffman is the Jewish equivalent of Ivanov in Russian, or Müller in German. The name is very popular. Even Rosenbaum sang:

What is not a doctor is a Jew,
Shtilbans, Zusses and Paley,
Rosenbaum, Shnol and Kogan with Hoffman.

[Ulysses]

Take off his uniform, put on a civilian macintosh... And he's a regular dealer...

[Tusv]

Hey! Mackintosh, this is a lapserdak stolen from the Jews by the Anglismen. I swear by Starmeer

[Pechorsky]

Well, if our fighters hadn't saved Roman's close relatives, the Mossad director would have been different. I wonder how long the USSR repatriates will last plugging the Jewish holes. As far as I understand, no one from the new [new] countries wants to dive into this swamp.

[Pimply]

There were about 500,000 Jews among our fighters, a higher percentage than the USSR had. 200,000 of them died. This is also a moment to remember. Secondly, what nonsense are you talking about "plugging Jewish holes"?

[Ulysses]

Are you talking about the German Wehrmacht during World War II?

[Vladimir_Tver]

So what now? There's no one there who remembers their homeland. Alla and her husband are an example of that. And he'll even get a pension from us.

[Oscar Essen]

Well, for the Soviet-born settlers there, this might be a historic event, but for Belarusians, I think, it doesn't matter, especially to us. Just like the Moscow Jew Brin from Google.

[Word]

As they say, a Nazi flag in the hands of a Belarusian Jew with a German surname.

[Incvizitor]

If a fascist went to the Zionists and it doesn’t matter where from.

[Puskarinkis]

In the US, black descendants of African slaves also hold high positions. So what?! What's so new? I suppose they wanted to emphasize the position they gave a Soviet-born person and how it could help him in his work against... Russia, that is, Iran! Yes, exactly, Iran, with its nuclear program, as Benya said!

[faterdom]

Hoffmann "Just a Nutcracker".
He knows very miraculous signals for commanding troops, and also who the Learned Cat is.

[Radical]

For the first time in history, the head of Mossad was a native of the Soviet Union.

Well, basically I already know. Nothing more. For now.

[Radical]

Quote: SEVERIN

His appointment as head of the Mossad was fraught with legal complications, but the High Court of Justice of Israel (High Court of Justice) rejected all petitions against his candidacy.

- So, a defector from the Soviet Union became the head of Mossad, so what? - What does that change? - No matter where in the world a Jew ends up, he will remain a Jew.

You know, you're so right! You explain everything so well! So smart. JewDon't lose your sidelocks! Are you celebrating Stalin's birthday, the one your microscopic state gave you, or what?

[Pimply]

Stalin didn't grant the Jews a state. The Jews had been systematically building it for 50 years before it appeared on the map, and by the time it was recognized, all the elements were already there. The UN merely recorded the fact. Stalin did this to spite the British, because he wanted to create as much chaos for them as possible in the Middle East. Regarding the creation of a Jewish state in that territory, there was complete consensus among the victorious countries.

[Eugene Zaboy]

Major General Roman Hoffman has officially taken over as head of Israel's foreign intelligence service, the Mossad, replacing David Barnea.

He probably considers himself an expert on the post-Soviet space. How much has he screwed up Russia to earn so many stars? A worsening of relations with Israel is guaranteed. Unfortunately, hoping for good neighborly relations with a state bent on establishing global domination is futile. We simply have to accept that such penguins exist in this world, and thank God they're running around in the distant Palestinian deserts and not right here on our doorstep. If they haven't settled down with their state in 2 years, they never will. The main thing is that they achieve their great goals at their own expense. You can sympathize with them and listen attentively, but you can't help them—they won't say thank you.

[Declarant]

I interacted with a lot of Jews. My ex-wife was Jewish too (she's now in the Promised Land). So, in Israel, immigrants from anywhere in the world are considered second-class citizens, unlike native-born Jews. There's discrimination based on this, especially in careers. And for a former immigrant to receive such a position is simply unthinkable.

[solar]

Meir Dagan from Kherson disagrees with you.

[solar]

For the first time in history, the head of Mossad was a native of the Soviet Union.

Formally, the first was Meir Dagan from Kherson.
Israel Natanovich Galperin (Isser Harel) from Vitebsk led Mossad until 1963. He was the one who essentially created Mossad as it exists today. His younger brother, David Natanovich Galperin, was killed in battle near Naro-Fominsk in 1942.
Meir Dagan (born Guberman) was born in Kherson. He is a major general in the Israeli army and director of the Mossad from 2002 to January 2011.

[nazgul-ishe]

I remember a joke. A Japanese man says to a Russian: "Your children are good, but everything you do with your hands is so-so."

[Same lech]

10 million Jews keep the entire Arab world around Israel in check...but it's unbalanced.

[Rom8681]

Quote: Tusv

Quote: Sergey Kirakosyan

Are we proud or whatever...?!

There were even worse times, when 2/3 of their Knesset's native language was Russian.

There is reason to be proud, there were times when even half of the State Duma was Jewish, now it is less, but it is there

[geologist]

To say we studied especially diligently in the military department at the Polytechnic would be an understatement. Imagine my surprise when I learned that one of our slackers had been offered the honor of becoming an officer in the Israeli army. He himself was surprised and protested, claiming he knew nothing and couldn't do anything, and was struggling with the language. They reasonably countered, "We'll give you all sorts of Poles, Hungarians, and so on who know Russian and will obey you unquestioningly because they see you as a representative of the USSR, i.e., the ruler of the people."

[icant007]

Well, that's it! Israel is ours.
We will soon hold a referendum on accession.

[geologist]

And as my friend Kolyan said, "...for these infidels, you're now mister, not a piece of shit" (pilot Zakharov)

[uber]

After the trial, will he redouble his energy to prove to everyone that he's "one of us, a bourgeois"? It's unclear what the big deal is! It's especially "encouraging" that they even divide their own into their own "whites" and "a few goyim."

[APASUS]

Judging by the downvotes, Mossad reads VO and downvotes those who are dissatisfied. And as usual, without explaining it to anyone. But the truth must be told, and they write their own odes.