Trending Articles: FLASHBACK: The Israeli Secret Service Agency Mossad Planned To Bomb Areas In Egypt Where Americans Gathered And Make The Attacks Appear To Be The Work Of Muslim Extremists. The Plot Was Discovered And Is Known As 'The Lavon Affairâ. In 2005 Israel Honored Published: May 13, 2021 Lavon affair was a failed Israeli covert operation, codenamed Operation Susannah, conducted in Egypt in the summer of 1954. As part of the false flag operation, [1] a group of Egyptian Jews were recruited by Israeli military intelligence to plant bombs inside Egyptian-, American-, and British-owned civilian targets: cinemas, libraries, and American educational centers. The bombs were timed to detonate several hours after closing time. The attacks were to be blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian Communists, "unspecified malcontents", or "local nationalists" with the aim of creating a climate of sufficient violence and instability to induce the British government to retain its occupying troops in Egypt's Suez Canal zone.