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===Operation Susannah=== {{Main|Lavon Affair}} In the summer of 1954, a group of Egyptian Jews recruited by Israeli army intelligence were caught with plans to bomb American, British, and Egyptian civil targets in Egypt. The bombs were timed to detonate several hours after closing time. The bombings were to be blamed on the [[Muslim Brotherhood]], Egyptian [[Communists]], "unspecified malcontents", or "local nationalists", with the aim of creating a climate of sufficient violence and instability to induce the British government to refrain from evacuating its troops occupying Egypt's [[Suez Canal]] zone, a move that would embolden [[Egyptian President]] [[Gamal Abdel Nasser|Nasser]] against Israel. However, the plot was exposed before launch and Egyptian authorities tailed an operative to his target, arrest him, and later search his apartment where the entire plan, including the names of other agents and explosive materials, was held. Unknown to Israel Prime Minister [[Moshe Sharet]], the exposé caused a scandal in Israel, with Israeli officials blaming one another for the operation and the Israeli defense minister, [[Pinhas Lavon]], resigning under pressure. Later, two investigative committees found that Lavon was unaware of the operation.<ref>{{cite book |title=The encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli conflict: a political, social, and military history |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2008 |page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaarab00tuck/page/n685 610] |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaarab00tuck |url-access=limited}}</ref><ref name="BlackMorris1992">{{cite book |title=Israel's secret wars: a history of Israel's intelligence services |last1=Black |first1=Ian |last2=Morris |first2=Benny |date=1 June 1992 |publisher=Grove Press |isbn=978-0-8021-3286-4 |page=111 |author-link1=Ian Black (journalist) |author-link2=Benny Morris |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WFm21j2sZBAC |access-date=19 June 2011}}</ref><ref name="Teveth">{{cite book |title=Ben-Gurion's spy: the story of the political scandal that shaped modern Israel |author=S. Teveth |date=1996 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-10464-7 |page=81}}</ref>
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