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[[Image:Meir Max Bineth.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Meir Max Bineth]]

'''Meir Max Bineth''' ('''Max Bennett'''; 27 June 1917 – 21 December 1954) was a [[lieutenant colonel]] in the [[Israeli Intelligence Community|Israeli Intelligence]].<ref name="memory site">((cite web|url=http://www.meirmaxbineth.org/?page_id=80|title=Meir Max Bineth|publisher=meirmaxbineth.org|access-date=2014-09-03))</ref>

==Biography==
Bineth was born in [[Szombathely]], [[Hungary]], as the grandson of the scholar [[Jacob Obermeyer]]. He grew up in [[Cologne]], from 1919 until 1935, when he and his parents left [[Nazi Germany]] and immigrated to [[Mandatory Palestine|Palestine]].

Meir's last duty and mission was as an Israeli intelligence spy (Secret Fighter) in [[Egypt]], from 1952 until the end of 1954. He was sent there undercover as a German businessman, representing various German firms, primarily "von Laufenberg", a firm manufacturing equipment for the disabled. He was the first Israeli intelligence agent sent to an enemy country under a German identity, and was likely partly selected due to his early years in Germany.

Meir's mission in Egypt was to gather information for Israeli Intelligence about the strength of the Egyptian army, the power of the military industry, Egyptian strategy and intentions toward Israel, the activities of significant anti-Israeli bodies, propaganda, etc.

Many doors of Egypt's top military echelon opened before him; he became acquainted with General [[Muhammad Naguib]], then President of Egypt. He also built relations with German military and intelligence personnel and ranking ex-Nazi "advisors", who had found refuge in Egypt after the [[Second World War]]. Some of them were scientists who were helping Egypt develop missiles that could potentially threaten Israel.

While working in Egypt, Meir was nominated as a consultant engineer at the "Anglo Egyptian Motors Company" (the German branch of the [[Ford Motor Company]] in Egypt), and suggested several projects to help improve Egypt's economy, believing that a crucial factor in generating wars between nations and communities is the lack of economic and social equilibrium; among other things he wrote in his prison cell for his defense was the line "I think that the principal cause of wars is the age-old fear existing between man and communities that there may not be enough bread for all."

Meir's cover and conduct were convenient: he had German citizenship, grew up with German culture, literature, and music, and German was his mother tongue. During the last seven months of his secret mission in Egypt, his wife Jane ([[South Africa|South African]] in origin) and daughter joined him.

Bineth was caught and arrested after the failure of [[false flag]] [[Operation Susannah]], an incident later known as the [[Lavon Affair]]. Meir had been ordered by a senior officer in Israel to deliver money for the groups' needs and had met [[Marcelle Ninio]] a few times. Ninio was the last to be caught; under torture, she gave a description of Meir's car, which led to his capture.

After five months of interrogation and torture, on the day before his trial, Meir committed suicide in his prison cell (his wife and child were in Europe). He realized that there was no way out for him and wanted to avoid public hanging, which was the fate awaiting him after conviction.<ref>((cite web|url=http://jafi.org/JewishAgency/English/Jewish+Education/Compelling+Content/Eye+on+Israel/Gallery+of+People+(Biographies)/Meir+Max+Bineth.htm|title=Meir Max Bineth 1917–1954|publisher=Jewish Agency for Israel))</ref>

His body was re-interred in the [[Mount Herzl]] military cemetery in Jerusalem in 1959.<ref name="memory site"/>

==See also==
* [[Lavon Affair]]
* [[Moshe Marzouk]]
* [[Azzam Azzam]]
* [[Ouda Tarabin]] 
* [[Ilan Grapel affair]]
* [[Naama Issachar affair]]

==References==
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* The Lavon Affair: [https://web.archive.org/web/20100606012208/http://www.mideastweb.org/lavon.htm The Lavon Affair, The Ring Acts and is Caught, Max (Meir) Binett (or Benett)]
* ((cite web|title=UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982–2004|publisher=University of California Press |url=http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft2290045n&chunk.id=s1.4.25&toc.depth=1&toc.id=ch4&brand=ucpress)) The Israeli and Anglo-American Jewish Discourse, Binnet was a major in the Israel Defense Forces who was already known and wanted in Iraq for previous espionage activity there. His mission in Egypt appears to have been far more substantial than Operation Susannah, with which he had no direct connection.
* ((cite web|author=Shmuel Even |author2=Amos Granite |url=http://d26e8pvoto2x3r.cloudfront.net/uploadimages/Import/(FILE)1237362207.pdf|script-title=he:קהילת המודיעין הישראלית – לאן? |language=he |trans-title=Israeli intelligence community - where?|page=27|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140422232409/http://d26e8pvoto2x3r.cloudfront.net/uploadimages/Import/%28FILE%291237362207.pdf|archive-date=22 April 2014))

==External links==
* ((cite web| url=http://jafi.org/JewishAgency/English/jewish%20education/Compelling%20Content/Eye%20on%20Israel/Gallery%20of%20People%20%28Biographies%29/Meir%20Max%20Bineth.html| title=Meir Max Bineth 1917–1954| publisher=Jewish Agency - Jewish Agency for Israel| author=Meir's daughter, Michelle Bineth-Dagan| year=2004| access-date=2014-09-03))
* ((cite web |url=http://www.wirelesscollegechronicles.co.uk/html/max_bineth.html |title=Meir Max Bineth 1917–1954 | publisher=A memory site for The Wireless College, [[North Wales]], [[United Kingdom|UK]]| author=Meir's daughter, Michelle Bineth-Dagan| year=2004| access-date=2008-03-01))
* ((cite web| url=http://www.palyam.org/Gidhonim/Meir_Bineth/njvSKMB| script-title=he:חמש פגישות עם מאיר בינט ז"ל |trans-title=Five meetings with the late Meir Binet |publisher=palyam.org| format=[[JPEG]]| language=he))
* ((cite news |author=Lior Astlein |date=16 April 2010 |script-title=he:מי זוכר את מאיר בינט, שהיה מרגל ישראלי במצרים והתאבד בכלאו ב-54'? |language=he |trans-title=Who remembers Meir Binet, who was an Israeli spy in Egypt and committed suicide in prison in 1954? |url=http://www.haaretz.co.il/misc/1.1197884 |newspaper=[[Haaretz]] |access-date=3 September 2014))
*((cite book |title=Israel's Secret Wars: A History of Israel's Intelligence Services |author=Ian Black |author-link=Ian Black (journalist) |author2=Benny Morris |author2-link=Benny Morris |publisher=Grove Press |year=1991 |pages=112–113 |isbn=9780802132864 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FkyMsycbemEC&pg=PA112))
*Amnon Yona: Missions with No Traces=https://books.google.com/books?id=7viWqKOsdZcC&pg=PA259&lpg=PA259&dq (pages=256–260)

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