Shaul Mofaz

Shaul Mofaz   (Soldier, Politician, spook?)
Born	4 November 1948 Tehran, Iran
Nationality	Israeli
Alma mater	Bar-Ilan University, US Marine Corps Command and Staff College
Religion	Jewish
Party	Kadima
Former Israeli Military Chief of Staff and Minister of Defense. Family plays a mysterious role into Malaysian Airlines planes.  Israel/Defense Forces/Chief of Staff  In office 9 July 1998 - 9 July 2002 Preceded by Amnon Lipkin-Shahak Succeeded by Moshe Yaalon  Member of the Knesset In office 2006 - 2015  Israel/Minister/Defense In office 2002 - 2006  Israel/Deputy Prime Minister In office 2006 - 2009  Israel/Minister/Transportation In office 2006 - 2009

Lieutenant General Shaul Mofaz is an Israeli former soldier and politician.

Background

Mofaz was born Shahrām Mofazzazkār on 4 November 1948 in Tehran, Iran, to Persian Jewish parents from Isfahan, and lived in Tehran until his family moved to Israel in 1957 when he was nine years old.

Career

He joined the Israel Defense Forces in 1966 and served in the Paratroopers Brigade. He fought in the Six-Day War, Yom Kippur War, 1982 Lebanon War, and Operation Entebbe with the paratroopers and Sayeret Matkal, an elite special forces unit. In 1998 he became the sixteenth IDF's Chief of the General Staff, serving until 2002.

After leaving the army, he entered politics. He was appointed Minister of Defense in 2002, holding the position until 2006 when he was elected to the Knesset on the Kadima list. He then served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transportation and Road Safety until 2009. After becoming Kadima leader in March 2012 he became Leader of the Opposition, before returning to the cabinet during a 70-day spell in which he served as Acting Prime Minister, Vice Prime Minister and Minister without Portfolio. Kadima was reduced to just two seats in the 2013 elections, and Mofaz retired from politics shortly before the 2015 elections.

MH 17

Full article: Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

It appears this was actually the last picture taken of MH17 before the final flight. The photographer is named by Reuters as Yaron Mofaz, who is possibly related with Shaul Mofaz, according to an investigation by Christopher Bollyn.

Regarding MH 17, Israeli company GA Telesis - an aviation company headed by Aviv Tzur bought a written off plane from Malaysia Airlines to dismantle it, a 777-200. It was the only plane in their entire fleet, which was looking like the one that crashed and sat in their hangar at least since 2013, flying from France to Israel using a new registration number. GA Telesis does business with Pentagon 2000, an aviation software company for Boeing-planes, which is an Israeli family business of the Mofaz family and the father of Shaul Mofaz, Avraham Mofaz, has sort of an "obituary" on the Pentagon 2000 website. A branch company of Pentagon 2000 in Ireland listed as directors Gabriel Mofaz in New York and Yaron Mofaz in Israel, who likely is the person that took the last photo of the plane. Mofaz was very startled upon being called regarding these planes by Bollyn.