The Amazing Story Of A Blind Intelligence Officer And Her Impact On Israel's National Security

Unit 8200 installation on Mount Avital. Wikipedia

Blind Woman Foresees Trends For IDF -- YNet News

Despite being blind from birth, Cece has been working in classified role in elite IDF intelligence unit for past 15 years.

She may be blind, but Cece's foresight has profound significance for Israel's national security. For the past 15 years, Cece, 40, has been serving in the IDF's Unit 8200 – a division charged with collecting data that predicts developments in neighboring countries.

Cece, who was born blind, never wanted any special treatment. She attended regular schools and got a university degree. At the age of 25, when she learned about a program that integrates the blind in the Intelligence Corps, she lunged at the chance to enlist.

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Israel's Unit 8200

Unit 8200 And Israel's High-Tech Whiz Kids -- UPI

TEL AVIV, Israel, June 4 (UPI) -- Israel's highly secretive Unit 8200 of Military Intelligence is increasingly seen to have played a leading role with the United States in developing a powerful new cyberweapon known as W32.Flame that attacked Iran's oil industry in April.

Veterans of the unit, the equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency and Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, have in recent years been at the cutting edge of building Israel's formidable high-tech sector into what the Financial Times calls a "global technology powerhouse."

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