Israeli spy agency’s latest mission: Hunting worldwide for scarce ventilators to battle coronavirus

JERUSALEM — Israel has turned to the Mossad, its top spy agency, to acquire ventilators and other medical supplies from abroad as the country races to handle a coronavirus outbreak that threatens to overwhelm its hospitals, according to government officials and Israeli media reports.

The Mossad has already flown in millions of masks, swabs and virus testing kits in recent days, as well as a small number of ventilators.