Gad Shimron: Is Peace in Gaza Possible?

10.11.2025

A discussion with Gad Shimron, an Israeli journalist, author, and ex-Mossad agent took place on November 10th at CEVRO University. The event was co-organized by PCTR and Zeď Publishing House and moderated by Tomáš Pojar and Tereza Engelová.

The subject of the discussion was the security situation of the Middle East more than two years after the Hamas attacks of October 7th and only few weeks after the announcement of the Trump peace deal. it was followed by a presentation of the Czech translation of Shimron’s book Love and War in British Palestine

Gad Shimron (1950) is an Israeli journalist, author, and former Mossad agent. During the 1970s and 1980s, G. Shimron was a member of various operative units of the Mossad. In the 1990s, he started his career in media. He served as the European correspondent for the Israeli daily newspaper Ma’ariv. He worked as a journalist in the news department of the public radio service Kol Yisrael and presented the morning show on TV Channel 1. Shimron continued to work as editor and commentator for Ma’ariv until 2008.

Shimron is an author of various successful fiction and non-fiction books, including The Mossad and its Myth (1997), The Execution of the Hangman of Riga (1998, together with Anton Künzle), Mossad Exodus (1998), Satan in Holyland (1998), Can’t Be (1999) and Spacial Army (2007).

Love and War in British Palestine (2015) is an unusual love affair from Jerusalem in the 1930s and 40s between a Viennese Jewish refugee and a German man born in Jerusalem’s German Colony. This historical novel is based on extensive in-depth research and is more than an irresistible love drama: it weaves actual events with fictional episodes and characters to create a fictional story that could have just as well been real.