Mossad's Employment Ad
In the ad, a sentence had been written in Hebrew, and the readers were told they would be accepted by Mossad if they had understood the sentence. The sentence read as "We do not employ very many people but you can be one of us".
What is interesting is that such an advertisement indicates that Mossad has expanded its espionage operations around the world and is ready to pay for all its agents to travel to different countries for espionage purposes.
Running a country, with U.S. as its father and Britain as its mother, requires such a powerful espionage system, with all a vast variety of language knowledge.
According to Ruiter Israel's Mossad Spy Service widened its public recruitment drive by advertising for the first time in an English-language newspaper on Friday.
"The Mossad is open -- not for everyone, not for many people, but perhaps for you," the agency said in a Hebrew-language advertisement in an English-language daily.
The Mossad recently ran similar advertisements in Hebrew-language newspapers, breaking a decades-old policy of secret recruitment.
Israeli officials said the agency, which has been plagued by a series of embarrassing setbacks in recent years, had to seek candidates publicly because of competitive recruiting by Israeli high-tech companies.
"Without subterfuge, the nation falls," read the advertisement's headline under the Mossad's official name, the institute for intelligence and special tasks.
Candidates, the ads said, should be willing to do service overseas after a training period.
They also should speak foreign languages and have "acting talent" and "a strong ability to forge inter-personal relationships".
Mossad obviously has come to the conclusion that it no longer needs to keep its activities secret as the world has come to know its operational techniques. Perhaps the open ads are also indicative of Mossad's failure to recruit under a cloak of secrecy.