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== Attacks against the German scientists ==

The main tactics employed by Israel against the scientists were [[letter bomb|letter bombs]] and abductions<ref name="Johnson1"/><ref name="Giles1"/>. Their families were threatened with violence to persuade the scientists to return to Europe<ref name="Webster1"/>. Mossad provided a small operational unit, headed by future Israeli Prime Minister [[Yitzhak Shamir]], but since it lacked an operational division at that time it mainly used units from the the [[Shin Bet]] to carry out the attacks. <ref name="Haaretz1"/>

* A plane owned by an Egyptian supplying arms and technicians was blown up by Mossad, killing his wife.<ref name="Time1"/><ref name="Lavy1"/>