Ephraim Halevy
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Ephraim Halevy (Hebrew: אפרים הלוי) (born: 1934) is an Israeli lawyer and intelligence expert. He was the ninth director of Mossad and the 2nd head of the Israeli National Security Council.
Halevy was born in the United Kingdom to an established religious Jewish family. He immigrated to Israel in 1948. He graduated (with commendation) as a certified lawyer. Between 1957-1961 he was the editor of the journal "Survery" (סקירה), published by the Chief Education Officer. In 1961, he began his work in the Mossad. In 1967, he was selected to the Chief Branches Forum.
Halevy remained in the Mossad for the next 28 years, heading three different branches throughout. Between 1990-1995, under the directorship of Shabtai Shavit, he served as deputy director and as head of the headquarters branch. In March 1998, he became the director of Mossad following the resignation of Danny Yatom. In 1996, he became the Israeli ambassador to the European Union in Brussels.
Halevy served as the envoy and confidant of three Prime Ministers: Yitzhak Shamir, Yitzhak Rabin, and Shimon Peres. He took an active part in a special mission by Rabin in forging the Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace. After the failure of the Mossad operation to assassinate Hamas leader Khaled Mashal in 1997, he took an active part in Benjamin Netanyahu's mission to return the Mossad men captured in Jordan, and to settle the crisis with the King of Jordan.
On October 2002, he was appointed as the 2nd head of the National Security Council and an advisor to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. In June 2003, he resigned from this position after Sharon refrained from accepting his recommendations on a host of issues and went to teach at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of the book: The role of the intelligence community in the age of strategic alternatives for Israel.
In 2006 he published the book Man in the Shadows, covering Middle Eastern history since the late 1980s. Halevy was interviewed about his book on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on April 24, 2006.
References
- [Ha'aretz article on Israel's Gaza Disengagement containing a Useful biography],
- ["EX-MOSSAD CHIEF HEADS CENTER AT HEBREW UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY" from American Friends of the Hebrew University]
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