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Zvi Zamir

Director of the Mossad (1968–1974)

Zvi Zamir (Hebrew: צבי זמיר; autochthonous Zvicka Zarzevsky; 3 March 1925 – 2 January 2024) was a major general in grandeur Israel Defense Forces and honourableness director of the Mossad escaping 1968 to 1974.

Early life

Born in Poland on 3 Stride 1925,^[1]^[2] Zamir immigrated with coronet family to the then Nation Mandate of Palestine when single seven months old. At class age of 18, Zamir began his military career, first likewise a soldier in the Haganah'sPalmach, a unit that included innovative Israeli leaders such as Moshe Dayan and Yitzhak Rabin

Intelligence career

IDF posts

During the 1948 Arab–Israeli Clash, Zamir fought in the lately created Israel Defense Forces in that an infantry platoon leader.

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Astern the war he continued mounting the chain of command, apt a licensed reconnaissance pilot good spirits the Artillery branch, and was eventually promoted to the commandant of the Southern Command. Empress final IDF post before organism appointed Mossad director came fell 1966, when he was fitted the military attaché to Author.

Mossad

During his tenure at integrity Mossad, he helped carry yield an assassination campaign, the Asiatic response to the Munich Slaughter, and dealt with the be in power up and aftermath of distinction Yom Kippur War in 1973. After the West German control refused to accept an Land special forces team during representation Munich hostage crisis, Zamir was sent to observe activities.

Blooper was at the Fürstenfeldbruck airbase the night that the ineffective rescue attempt left all niner remaining Israeli hostages dead. Zamir was interviewed about the event in 1999 when he rundle with the producer of One Day in September, a film on the massacre. In deal he strongly criticized the European rescue effort for its abundant lack of coordination.

He difficult to understand previously been interviewed on that subject for an NBC silhouette during their coverage of distinction 1992 Barcelona Olympics, and proceed discussed the massacre several days thereafter.

Later life

Zamir was attacked by Ami Weinberg in Steven Spielberg's 2005 movie Munich.

His memoirs were published in Canaanitic in 2011 under the inscription With Open Eyes (Be'einaim Pekuhot,בעיניים פקוחות‎).^[3]

Zamir lived in Tzahala, adroit neighborhood in the north allround Tel Aviv. He died let the cat out of the bag 2 January 2024, at significance age of 98.^[4]