The Lavon Affair refers to a failed Israeli covert operation, code named Operation Susannah, conducted in Egypt in the Summer of 1954.

The operation ultimately became known as the Lavon Affair after the Israeli defense minister Pinhas Lavon was forced to resign as a consequence of the incident.

Operation Susannah and the Lavon Affair turned out to be disastrous for Israel in several ways:

* The Lavon Affair by Doron Geller, JUICE, The Jewish Agency for Israel, Education Department

* The Lavon Affair by David Hirst, Excerpts from his book: The Gun and the Olive Branch, 1977, 1984, Futura Publications

* List of books about the Lavon Affair

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A year later a rivalry developed between the two on the issue of the Lavon Affair, a failed 1954 Israeli covert operation in Egypt.

However, his relationship with Ben-Gurion soon turned acrimonious over the latter's insistence on investigating the Lavon Affair, an Israeli covert operation in Egypt, which had gone wrong a decade earlier.

* Lavon Affair

During his time as prime minister the Arab-Israeli conflict intensified, particularly with the Egypt of Nasser and the Lavon Affair occurred, resulting in the resignation of Pinhas Lavon, the Defense Minister.

The Lavon Affair led to a deeper distrust of Jews in Egypt, from whose community key agents in the operation had been recruited, and as a result Egypt retaliated against its Jewish community.

Mosheh Marzouq, one of the Egyptian Jews executed in 1954 for planting bombs at Cairo in the service of Israeli Military Intelligence ( the Lavon Affair ) was a Karaite.

Herut helped bring down the government again in 1961 when they and the General Zionists tabled a motion of no confidence over the government's investigation into the earlier Lavon Affair ; in the resulting 1961 election, the party maintained its 17 seats.

A year later the cell in Egypt was exposed in events that led to the Lavon Affair.

The split had two main causes ; the first was the disagreements within Mapai over the Lavon Affair ; Ben-Gurion did not agree to declaring Lavon innocent without judicial investigation committee.

Nevertheless, the party helped bring down the government in 1961 when it and Herut tabled a motion of no confidence in the government over the Lavon Affair.

* Brother Against Brother: the Authorized Comprehensive Analyses of the Lavon Affair ( 1982 )

* Lavon Affair Israeli attempt to plant bombs in Western targets in Egypt, in blaming Arab elements

The Lavon Affair of 1954, in which an Israeli sabotage operation designed to discredit Gamal Abdel Nasser and perhaps also to derail secret negotiations with Egypt proposed by Moshe Sharett, blew up Western targets ( without causing deaths ), led to deeper distrust of Jews, from whose community key agents in the operation had been recruited.

* Avraham Seidenberg, Israeli secret agent involved in the Lavon Affair

This led to the expulsion of Lavon from the Histadrut labor union and an early call for new elections, the results of which changed the political structure in Israel.

To supplement the water provided by wells, the Garland began using the water from the nearby Lake Lavon.

Initially, then Minister of Defense Pinhas Lavon refused to release Zichroni, though he was eventually discharged from the army reserves.

Percy Lavon Julian ( April 11, 1899 – April 19, 1975 ) was an American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants.

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However, he resigned from the cabinet after he was accused of authorizing an Israeli false flag terrorist bombing operation in Egypt, which came to be known as the Lavon Affair.

During his tenure, Lavon strained relations with the Chief of Staff of the IDF Moshe Dayan by holding important policy meetings without Dayan being present, directly contacting IDF officers without following the established chain of command and attempting to scuttle Israeli purchases of arms from France.

In meetings with prime minister Moshe Sharett, minister of defense Pinhas Lavon denied any knowledge of the operation.

Sharett resolved the dilemma by siding with Peres ( who had, along with Moshe Dayan, testified against Lavon ), after which Lavon resigned on 17 February 1955.

Sharett and Levi Eshkol tried to issue a statement that would placate both Lavon and those who had opposed him.

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* Documents on the Michaud Affair including full quotes

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* Alan Sokal Articles on the " Social Text " Affair, including the original article

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