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category: "Military"
tags:
- Person
- Military
- Israel
summary: "Amos Lapidot was the chief of staff of the Israeli Air Force."
born: 1934
died: 2019-11-20
location: "Kfar Saba, Israel"
---
Amos Lapidot was the chief of staff of the Israeli Air Force. He assured [[Aviem Sella]] that [[Jonathan Pollard]] was not a rogue and that clearance for Sella's new assignment as Pollard's handler had been obtained from [[Yitzhak Rabin]], the minister of defense.[^1]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 21.