![]() ![]() Already in 1973 he had met with Israeli officials in May and August. He had been secretly meeting with Israeli leaders for years, just like his grandfather King Abdullah had before his assassination. With him was his prime minister, Zaid Rifai, and his intelligence chief, General Fathi Abu Talib. The king had left Amman an hour before on a Royal Jordanian Air Force helicopter to travel to the shore of the Dead Sea, where he transferred to a helicopter of the Israeli Air Force to fly to the guesthouse. On the evening of September 25, 1973, the guesthouse had a very special visitor: His Majesty King Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, a country Israel was at war with, at least officially. Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology The food was also quite good, especially some of the fish and schnitzel recipes. A top-secret facility, the guesthouse guaranteed its visitors quiet and secrecy. In the early 1970s it was a very lovely place for a meeting, isolated locally but located close enough to Tel Aviv to make it an easy place for senior officials to gather. Armies have marched past this spot since the dawn of history, including Alexander the Great, the Romans, the Crusaders, and the British in 1918. Today, the headquarters of the Mossad is also just below and adjacent to the guesthouse. ![]() Just below it, near the water, is the coastal highway linking Tel Aviv to the Galilee and Haifa. Forty years ago, in 1973, the guesthouse was virtually the only building in the area. It also has a kitchen and large dining area. It is a modest structure with a carport, a living room, a bedroom, and several small conference rooms. The guesthouse of the Israeli Institute for Intelligence and Special Projects, or Mossad, sits on a small hill top overlooking the Mediterranean Sea just north of Tel Aviv. ![]()
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