She was the No. 2 official in the Mossad, and stood behind many of its daring operations. How come we’ve never heard of Malka Braverman?

A clump of eucalyptus trees beyond the army base at Glilot conceals a twisting maze of high, exposed-concrete walls. Someone who wanders into the maze will walk past names and dates engraved in the walls, belonging to deceased members of the various branches of Israel’s intelligence community. At the maze’s far end, inside a modest stone structure, one finds a number of large volumes, resting on tall pedestals and softly lit. They are bound remembrance books, in which are recounted the actions of the women and men in Israel’s intelligence and secret services from the first days of the state to the present. A page or two is devoted to each person. Some have been honored with three, like President Yitzhak Navon, who headed the Arab intelligence division of the pre-state Haganah militia.