Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations is a 2018 book by Ronen Bergman about the history of targeted assassinations by Israel’s intelligence services.[1] Its author says that Israel has assassinated more people than any other western country since World War II.[2] It portrays the assassinations of British officials, Hamas, Hezbollah and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leaders, and Iranian nuclear scientists. To write the book, Bergman carried out about a thousand interviews with political figures and secret agents[1] and consulted "thousands" of documents.[2]