Aharon Yariv
 Aharon Yariv    (soldier) | ||||||||||||
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| Born | 20 December 1920 Moscow, Soviet Union | |||||||||||
| Died | 7 May 1994 (Age 73) | |||||||||||
| Party | Alignment | |||||||||||
Spoke at the 1979 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism, on "Arab State Support for Terrorism".
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Aharon Yariv was an Israeli politician and general. Yariv spoke at the 1979 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism, on "Arab State Support for Terrorism".
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Biography
Aharon ("Aharale") Rabinovich (later Yariv) was born in Moscow in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. He immigrated to Mandatory Palestine at the age of 15 and studied at the Pardes Hanna Agricultural High School. He began his military service in the Haganah in 1938,[1] and later the British Army.
Military and political career
Yariv served in the Israel Defense Forces as a field officer. Among his duties he commanded the Golani Brigade. Later he served as the Israeli military attaché to Washington.
From 1964 to 1972, he was head of Aman, the IDF's military intelligence.[2]
After the Munich Massacre in 1972, he became Prime Minister Golda Meir's advisor on counterterrorism and directed the revenge operation.
After leaving the army, he joined the Alignment. He was elected to the Knesset in the 1973 elections, and was appointed Transportation Minister, and then Information Minister. He resigned from the latter post in 1975, and then from the Knesset shortly before the 1977 elections. In March 1979 he concluded the PLO had failed to disrupt normal life, halt immigration or deter tourism.[3]
Commemoration
Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister at the time of his death, gave the eulogy at his funeral in 1994. Yariv was played by actor Amos Lavi in Steven Spielberg's 2005 film Munich.
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism | 2 July 1979 | 5 July 1979 | Israel Jerusalem | The birthplace of the "War on Terror" doctrine, "a major international forum for the movement against détente". |
References
- ↑ Aharon Yariv, Israeli General, 74 The New York Times, 9 May 1994
- ↑ Gal Perl Finkel, Wars are won by preparation and not by courage alone, The Jerusalem Post, 8 April 2017.
- ↑ Eveland, Wibur Crane (1980) Ropes of Sand. America's Failure in the Middle East. W.W.Norton. ISBN 0-393-01336-7. Page 352.
