Documents reveal Israeli hero Teddy Kollek spied for MI5
JERUSALEM -- Israel is reeling from the revelation that one of its founding fathers was a British spy who betrayed Jewish freedom fighters in the turbulent years before the state's creation in 1948.
Teddy Kollek, who later served as mayor of Jerusalem for almost 30 years, fed sensitive information to MI5 when Britain ran Palestine under a League of Nations mandate.
Evidence of Kollek's secret past has been disclosed in documents discovered at the Public Record Office in Kew by Ronen Bergman, an investigative journalist working for the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
"From all the documents it is clear he worked very closely with British intelligence for a number of years between 1943 and 1947," Mr Bergman told The Daily Telegraph.
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Teddy Kollek, who later served as mayor of Jerusalem for almost 30 years, fed sensitive information to MI5 when Britain ran Palestine under a League of Nations mandate.
Evidence of Kollek's secret past has been disclosed in documents discovered at the Public Record Office in Kew by Ronen Bergman, an investigative journalist working for the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
"From all the documents it is clear he worked very closely with British intelligence for a number of years between 1943 and 1947," Mr Bergman told The Daily Telegraph.