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Shabtai Shavit worked for the Mossad, Israel’s vaunted external intelligence agency, for 32 years. From 1973 to 1976, he was head of operations. And in the homestretch of his career, from 1989 to 1996, he was its director.
Appointed to his post by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, he was the first director of the Mossad who had not fought in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence.