Gad Shimron (Hebrew: גד שימרון; born 1950) is an Israeli journalist, author and military affairs commentator.

[1] During the 1990s, Shimron served as the European correspondent for the Israeli daily newspaper Ma'ariv,[2] worked as a journalist in the news department of Israel's public domestic and international radio service Kol Yisrael and presented the morning show on the Israeli Channel 1.

[3] In addition, Shimron has published seven fiction and non-fiction books on intelligence, security and the history of the Crusaders, in Hebrew, English, French and German.

[4][5][6] The script for The Red Sea Diving Resort, a 2019 spy thriller film, was loosely based ("inspired") on an actual undercover mission (part of Operation Brothers) that moved Ethiopian Jews to Israel.

Most of the information about this operation was first revealed in Shimron’s book Mossad Exodus: The Daring Undercover Rescue of the Lost Jewish Tribe.