Leaders of the Mossad
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1. Reuven Shiloah. 1949-52
Reuven Shiloah was active in the Mossad from 1949 to 1952. Reuven Shiloah was the first director of the
Mossad. He was born in the Ottoman Empire in 1909. He was born as Reuven Zaslanski. He later shortened his last
name to Zaslani. He then used Shiloah, a supposed codeword, as his last name. Reuven Shiloah was born into a
Orthodox Jewish Family. His father was also a Rabbi. He married Betty Borden of New York and they were married in
1936. Shiloah played a role in Isreali political and defensive matters. Since a young age Shiloah had involvement
with covert Yishuv Affairs? Shiloah also managed to steal invasion plans from the Arab League, Through this he was
able to build relationships with other intelligence agencies. The most powerfull Intelligence agency being the CIA in
the West. Under Shiloah's influence Prime Minister Ben-Gurion created the Central Institution for Coordination in
December of 1949. Just 1 year after the setting up of the bandit state Israel. On April 1, 1951 the Mossad became
operational under Shiloah. Beraucratic fighting had delayed Ben-Gurion's initial order to have the Mossad directed
by Shiloah. After Reuven Shiloah gained a place in the Isreali Embassy in Washington DC and continued to serve as
an advisor to the Mossad while he was serving in Washington DC.

2.Isser Harel. 1953-63
Isser Harel was born as Isser Halperin 1912. His place of birth was Vitebsk, Russia. Isser was born apart of a
large, wealthy, and JEWISH family.His birth date was lost in the book of Gemara, which his birthday was recorded in,
was lost in the migrations of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and World War I. Isser's family had a vinegar factory in
Vitebsk. It was from his maternal Grandfather who made vinegar for large parts of Tsarist Russia. In 1922 his family
emigrated to Dvinsk in Latvia because of the problems caused by jewish communism in Russia. Isser began his formal
and religious studies, completed primary school, and started secondary school in Dvinsk. As Isser grew up he found a
sense of Racial Pride and joined a zionist Youth Organization. Isser had a passion to form a kibbutz which is just a
fancy word for a zionist controlled agricultural program. Isser also began preperations to immigrate to The British
Mandate for Palestine. In the beginning of 1930 he immigrated to what would soon be Israel. Isser founded the Shin
Bet, or the defender that shall not be seen, which was in control of Law Enforcement and civilian agencies. He later
took over the position of the Mossad Director. He was chief of two of israel's intelligence agencies and he was in a
high position in Israels first 15 years.

3.Meir Amit. 1963-68
Meir Amit was born on March 17, 1921. He was born in Tiberias as Me-here Slutsky during the Mandate Era.
He later adopted the name Amit. In Hebrew it means friend of everybody. Amit joined a kibbutz at a young age. He
fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. He remained in the military after the war and rose in rank until he was
recognized as a major general. He also studied at the Columbia Business School in New York earning a MBA degree.
When he returned to Israel, Amit entered the Israeli Intelligence community as a Major General. He was the Head IDF
Intelligence. He became the Mossad Director in 1963. He was the only figure to hold Israels' history to hold the
position of chief of foreign intelligence and chief of military intelligence at the same time. During his time as the
Director of the Mossad he led the Mossad to some of their greatest successes. (operation Diamond)

4.Zvi Zamir. 1968-73
Zvi Zamir was born as Zvicka Zarzevsky. Zamir was a Major General in the Israel Defense Forces and the
Director of the Mossad from 1968 to 1974. Zamir was supposedly born in Polan. Zamir immgirated with his family to
the then British Mandate of Palestine when he was seven months old. At the age of 18 Zamir bagan his military
career, first as a soldier in the Haganah's Palmach. (A close-quarters regime of an elite fighting force and an
underground army of the Jewish community of the British Mandate of Palestine.) In 1948 Zamir fought in the Arab-
Isreali War. During this time he fought for the Israel Defense Forces. After the War he was promoted to the
Commander of the Southern Command. Bofore Zamir was put as the head of the Mossad, he was posted in London.
Zamir helped carry out Operation Wrath of God. Zamir is now living in Zahala, Israel north of Tel Aviv.

5.Yitzhak Hofi. 1973-82
Yitzhak Hofi was born January 25, 1927. He was a general, member of the Palmach, and the head of the
Israeli Northern Command. He was later the director of the Mossad. Hofi was born in Tel Aviv. He joined the Haganh
in 1944 and commanded a company in the Arab Israeli war in 1948. He continued to serve in the Israeli Defense
Forces in a variety of command, staff, and training posts. Hofi was head of the Northern Command of the Israeli
Defense Forces during the Yok Kippur War in 1973. He was The Acting Chief of Staff for a brief period in 1974. He then
retired from the military and took the post as the director of the mossad.
Reference: Black, Ian. Morris, Benny. Israels Secret Wars: A History of Israel's Intelligence Services.
New York: GRove Press 1991 ISBN 0-8021-1159-9, 322 p.

6.Nahum Admoni. 1982-89
Nahum Admoni was born November 29, 1929. Admoni was born in Jerusalem to immigrants from Poland.
Admoni fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. He fought in the SHAI. ([Sherut Yediot]A military agency based on
intelligence and counter-espionage. It was apart of the Haganah.) He later fought in the young Israeli Defense Force
Intelligence. AFter the war he went to United States and studied at the University of California, Berkeley. Admoni
returned to ISrael in 1954. When he returned to Israel he rejoined the Israeli Intelligence Community. He worked his
way up the chain of command to be Mossad Director Yitzhak Hofi's deputy. He served as the director of the Mossad
from 1982 to 1989.


7.Shabtai Shavit. 1989-96
Shavit served in the Sayeret Matkal for the Israel Defense Forces. (Sayeret Matkal is the General Staff of
Reconnnaissance Unit. It is the special forces for the IDF. It is also a subordinate to the intelligence directorate
Aman, The directorate of Military Intelligence) From 1958 to 1959 he was the military governor of the Southern
Command. Shavit joined the Mossad in 1964. After Shavit retired from the Mossad he spent five years working as the
CEO of the Maccabi HEalth Services Group. He was also a chairman of the Institute fro Counter-Terrorism at the
Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. Shavit was also an advisor to the Israeli National Security Council.
Shavit served as an advisor to Knesset Committee on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sub-Committee on
Intelligence. Shavit also was a member of the N.Y.F.D Task Force fror Future Preparedness Against Terrorism.


8.Danny Yatom. 1996-98
Danny Yatom was born on March 15, 1945. Danny Yatom is a former Israeli politician who served as a
member of the Knesset for Labour. Before that he was a director of the Mossad security Service. Yatom studied
Mathematics, physics, and computer science at the hebrew UNiversity of Jerusalem, earning a BA. He served in the
ISraeli Defense Defense Forces from 1963 to 1996 and worked for the Sayeret Matkal. He rose in rank to the position of
deputy commander. He then moved to the Armor Corps and became the head of the Israeli Central Command. While
he was serving thr Israeli Central Command he ranked as a MAjor General. HE served as the Director of the Mossad
from 1996 to 1998. He resigned after the assassination of Khaled Mashal. Yatom served as the the Prime Minister
Ehud Barak's Chief of Staff and Security advisor. Yatom then became a Knesset member and served in the 16th and
17th knesset from 2003 to 2008.
*A knesset is the legislative branch of the ISraeli Government. The Knesset passes all laws, elects the President and
Prime Minister. The President and Prime Minister also decide who makes up the Knesset. The knesset also approves the
cabinet and supervises the work of the government.

9.Efraim Halevy. 1998-2002
Efraim Halevy was born in 1934. Halevy was a lawyer and an Israeli Intelligence Expert. Halevy was born in
London to an Orthodox Jewish Family. He emigrated to Israel in 1948. He attended Ma'aleh and later graduated in
law from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Halevy was an editor of the Journal Monthly Survey published by the
chief Education Officer. Halevy began his work for the mossad in 1961. Halevy was selected to serve in the Chief
BRanches Forum in 1967. Halevy remained in the Mossad for the next 28 years. Halevy headed three different
branches. Halevy served as the deputy director and head of of the headquarters branch under the directorship of
Shabtai Shavit. In 1996 Halevy became the Israeli ambassador to the European Union in Brussels. He became the
director of the Mossad after the resignation of Danny Yatom in mArch 1998.
Halevy served as an envoy and confidant of five prime ministers. He served under Yitzhk Shamir, Yitzhak
Rabin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, and Ariel Sharon. He plyed a role in the forging of the Israel-Jordan
Treaty of Peace. On October 2002 he was placed as the second head of the National Security Council and an advisor to
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Halevy resigned from his position after Dov Weisglas, the bureau chief of prime minister
Ariel Sharon, "isolated and Neutralized him."
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon did not accept any of Halevy's recomendations on many issues after this. Halevy then
went to teach at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He authored the book "The Role of the Intelligence Community
In THE Age of Strategic Alternatives For Israel" Halevy also published "Man In THe Shadows."


10.Meir Dagan. 2002-2011
Meir Dagan was born on January 30, 1945. Meir Huberman (Dagan) was born to parents from Novosibirisk
on a train in 1945, while they were being deported to a "Nazi Death Camp" in Poland. Ber Erlich Sloshny, his
grandfather, was supposedly murdered in the "Holocaust." There is a picture of his grandfather kneeling next to two
german soldiers made public by Yedioth Ahronoth, A Hebrew Daily Newspaper. The assumption that he was shot has
no evidence to back this up. But Meir and his parents survived the Holocaust. In 1950 his family made Aliyah to Israel
and settled in Bat Yam.
Dagan served as an officer in the Six-Day War in 1967. During his time in service he was apart of the
Paratroopers Brigade. He also commanded an ad hoc undercover commando unit known as Sayeret Rimon. The
Sayeret Rimon were made to main control over the violence in the Palestinians territories. These violences were
caused by the Jews. The jewish people were in a land that was not their's. He recieved a Medal of Honor for disarming
a Islamic Freedom Fighter in 1971. Dagan also Fought in the Yom Kippur War and served as an armored brigade in
the 1982 Lebanon War. Dagan also served as a counterterrorism adviser to the Israeli Government. He originally
served as a National Security Adviser to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon appointed him
Director-General of Mossad in August 2002. Meir was excessively aggressive in ordering assassinations of enemies of
Israel. Dagan had been reconfirmed as the Director of the Mossad for doing such a good job of protecting the Zionist
State from its Enemies. IF you read the Talmud you will see who Zionism's real enemies are. He was re-appointed in
2008 and 2009. Tamir Pardo was his replacement in 2010.
Dagan now serves as the Director of the Israel Port Authority

11.Tamir Pardo. 2011-present
Tamir Pardo was born in 1953. Pardo served in the Israel Defense Forces as a Communication officer in the
elite special forces unit Sayeret Matkal. He was a member of the unit under the command of Yonatan Netanyahu.
Pardo participated in Operation Entebbe. The older brother of Benjamin Netanyahu was killed during Operation
Entebbe. Pardo joined the Mossad after he served for the Israeli Defense Forces. While he served the mossad he served
in entry-level technical positions. He rose through the ranks became the head of the Keshet department. Pardo
thought that after Dagan was let go from the Mossad he would be offered the job. After Dagan had his term extended
Pardo left the Mossad. Pardo then went into a private business with israeli Internet gambling entrepeneur Noam
Lanir.