Mosab Hassan Yousef is a rare voice to emerge from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: a man whose journey took him from the dark pit of Hamas, to an outspoken critic and bestselling author.

Born in Ramallah in 1978, Yousef is the eldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, one of the founding leaders of Hamas, the terror group that rose to dominate Gaza. Growing up steeped in Jihadist ideology, he was expected to inherit his father’s legacy — until a crisis of conscience set him on a radically different course.

His transformation began in the late 1990s, after witnessing the brutality inflicted by his own peers on suspected “collaborators.” Disillusioned, he accepted an unlikely recruitment by Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, agreeing to act as an informant under the code name “The Gr

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