Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service About the Author Michael Bar-Zohar is a writer, public speaker, and former lawmaker. He is one of Israel's foremost experts on espionage and the official biographer of David Ben-Gurion and Shimon Peres. He also wrote the biography of Isser Harel, the legendary director of the Mossad, and coauthored The Quest for the Red Prince, which dealt with the bloody war between the Mossad and Black September.