A young Mossad officer suspected that Syria was building a nuclear program. Superiors claimed there was no evidence for it. However, she did not give up. The officer, known only as "Anat," was at the forefront of the breakthrough that led to the destruction of the Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007. Former Prime Minister Olmert described it in an interview with Amit Segal for Channel 12. After training, Anat requested to focus on Syria instead of Iran. Her instincts told her that there was something behind the fragments of information. Her superiors tried to dissuade her, especially when two operations targeting the head of the Syrian Atomic Commission, Ibrahim Usman, found nothing. Because of her persistence, she was even summoned to the carpet. Nevertheless, she remained in Mossad and later rose to a high position. Mossad chief Meir Dagan, despite her low rank, invited her to a consultation about the operation that revealed the reactor. He reportedly had a principle of inviting people who would say what others would not. When the information reached Olmert, he announced to his advisors: "There is a nuclear reactor in Syria, we will destroy it." Israel was also preparing for possible war and considered abducting Usman for evidence. The reactor in al-Kibar was destroyed by an airstrike in September 2007, and Israel officially acknowledged it only in 2018. About 2,500 people knew about monitoring the reactor, yet nothing leaked. President George W. Bush reportedly told Olmert later that the fact that even the Americans did not leak anything was a miracle. (translated)







