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Mossad | |
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Motto | By way of deception, thou shalt do war |
Formation | December 13, 1949 |
Type | intelligence agency |
Interest of | Paul Lir Alexander, Nahum Manbar, Victor Ostrovsky, Herbert Pundik |
Subpage | •Mossad/Deputy Director •Mossad/Director |
Mossad (Hebrew for Institute) is an abbreviation for ha-Mossad le-Modiin ule-Tafkidim Meyuhadim (Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks), an Israeli intelligence agency focussed on foreign intelligence. |
Directors
- Reuven Shiloah 1949-1952
- Isser Harel 1953-1963
- Meir Amit 1963-1968
- Zvi Zamir 1968-1974
- Itzhak Hofi 1974-1982
- Nahum Admoni 1982-1989
- Shabtai Shavit 1989-1996
- Dani Yatom 1996-1998
- Efraim Halevi 1998-2002
- Meir Dagan 2002-2010[1]
- Tamir Pardo 2011-present [2]
References
- ↑ About Us - Directors, Mossad, accessed 14 May 2009.
- ↑ Mossad, Federation of American Scientists, accessed 14 May 2009.