ISRAEL

Heads of A'man, Mossad, & Shin Bet

Updated from Polmar and Allen, Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage (New York: Random House, 1997), pp. 21, 379, 510, with additional entries from media reportage.

Included here:

1. Heads of Israeli Military Intelligence (A'man)

2. Directors of Mossad

3. Directors of Shin Bet

1. Heads of Israeli Military Intelligence (A'man)

1948-1949 Isser Be'eri

1949-1950 Col. Chaim Herzog

1950-1955 Col. Binyamin Gibli

1955-1959 Maj. Gen. Yehoshafat Harkabi

1959-1962 Maj. Gen. Chaim Herzog

1962-1963 Maj. Gen. Meir Amit

1964-1972 Maj. Gen. Aharon Yariv

1972-1974 Maj. Gen. Eliahu Zeira

1974-1978 Maj. Gen. Shlomo Gazit

1979-1983 Maj. Gen. Yehoshua Saguy

1983-1985 Maj. Gen. Ehud Barak

1986-1991 Maj. Gen. Amnon Shahak

1991-1995 Maj. Gen. Uri Saguy

1995- Maj. Gen. Moshe Ya'alon

2. Directors of Mossad

1951-1952 Reuven Shiloah

1952-1963 Isser Harel

1963-1968 Meir Amit

1968-1974 Zvi Zamir

1974-1982 Yitzhak Hofi

1982-1989 Nahum Admoni

1989-1996 Shabtai Shavit

1996-1998 Danny Yatom

1998- 2002 Efraim Halevy

2002- Meir Dagan

3. Directors of Shin Bet

1948-1952 Isser Harel

1952-1953 Isi Dorot

1953-1963 Amos Manor

1964-1974 Yosef Harmelin

1974-1981 Avraham Ahituv

1981-1986 Avraham Shalom

1986-1988 Yosef Harmelin

1988-1994 Jacob Peri

1995-1996 Karmi Gilon

1996-2000 Ami Ayalon

2000-2005 Avraham Dichter