One Step Ahead: Inside the Mossad Operation That Turned Hezbollah’s Pagers into Bombs

When the Lebanese militant organization Hezbollah abandoned smartphones in favor of “untraceable” pagers, its commanders believed they had finally escaped Israeli intelligence.They were wrong.FROM ETHAN HAREL — a writer with firsthand access to people connected to the real operation — comes the classified story behind one of the boldest intelligence missions of the century.When a young Mossad officer, Yael, discovers a narrow and nearly impossible opportunity to turn thousands of enemy pagers into synchronized remote-triggered bombs, she’s dismissed, doubted, and nearly shut down. The idea is too dangerous. The risk is too high. One mistake could expose the entire Israeli operation — and cost lives.But she refuses to back down.What follows is a gripping real-world espionage saga: deep-cover meetings across Europe, high-stakes surveillance inside Beirut, digital warfare against Iranian operatives, and a deception campaign so seamless that Hezbollah never saw it coming.On September 17, 2024, thousands of pagers exploded across Lebanon in the exact same second — shocking the world.ONE STEP AHEAD reveals the secret mission, the two women who engineered it, and the creative brilliance inside the Mossad that rewrote the rules of modern intelligence.A pulse-pounding espionage thriller based on true events that changed the Middle East — forever. Read more