Zvi Zamir, who was born in Poland, became a general in the Israel Defence Forces and then director of Israel’s intelligence agency in 1968. He also sounded the alarm before the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Zvi Zamir, who has died aged 98, was a general in the Israeli Defence Forces before becoming Director of Mossad, Israel’s Intelligence Agency, in 1968; in this capacity he led Operation Wrath of God to hunt and kill those responsible for the Munich Massacre.