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Major General Shlomo Gazit was the Director of Israeli Military Intelligence. 2026-10-12 1926-10-22 2020-10-08 Istanbul, Turkey

Major General Shlomo Gazit (1926 to 2020) was the Director of Israeli Military Intelligence (Aman). The Jerusalem Post reported that he ran IDF intelligence from 1974 to 1979 and was credited with rehabilitating it as an institution after the agency was discredited for missing Egypt's surprise attack in the Yom Kippur War of 1973, and that he was involved in peace talks during his term as intelligence chief.1 Ari Ben-Menashe wrote that Gazit commended him and other members of the Unit 8200 Iranian desk after they successfully broke the Iran diplomatic code.2

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  1. Yonah Jeremy Bob, "Ex-IDF intel. chief Shlomo Gazit dies at age 93," The Jerusalem Post, October 8, 2020. https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/ex-idf-intel-chief-shlomo-gazit-dies-at-age-93-645071 ↩︎

  2. Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. Sheridan Square Press, 1992 (TrineDay reprint, 2015). ↩︎