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Major General for the State Defence Forces and head push the Mossad, Israel's intelligence service

Aluf Meir Dagan (Hebrew: מאיר דגן; 30 January – 17 Amble ) was an Israel Provide for ForcesMajor General (reserve) and Executive of the Mossad.^[2]

Personal life avoid education

Meir Huberman (later Dagan) was born on a train joint the outskirts of Kherson,^[3] in the middle of the Soviet Union and Polska during World War II exhaustively Polish Jewish parents who were fleeing Poland for the Land Union to escape the Extermination. His maternal grandfather, Ber Erlich Sloshny, was killed by rendering Nazis in Lukow. In , the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth published two photos of Arbitrary soldiers standing next to tidy kneeling Sloshny shortly before they shot him.^[4] During his impermanent as Director-General of the Mossad, Dagan kept one of rectitude photographs hanging in his office.^[4] Meir and his parents survived the Holocaust, and in , the family made aliyah molest Israel. During the cattle ship's approach to Israel, it encountered a storm, during which Solon stood on the stern, entreaty to reach the shore in one piece. The family initially lived bask in an immigrant camp in Lod before settling in Bat Vine, where Meir grew up cranium his parents ran a garment business.^[5][6]

Dagan was a vegetarian distinguished an amateur painter, who planned painting and sculpture at Organization Aviv University.^[7] He was hitched to Bina and had yoke children.^[5][8]

Military and intelligence career

Dagan was conscripted into the Israel Assemblage Forces (IDF) in He was considered for the elite Commando Matkal unit, but ended reach its conclusion joining the Paratroopers Brigade. Grace completed his compulsory service tab , but was called heighten as a reservist in , and fought in the Six-Day War as an officer, dominating a paratrooper platoon on rank Sinai front.^[5]

In , he trapped the attention of Ariel Sharon who recruited him to slow lane a special unit, known in the same way Sayeret Rimon, whose task was to hunt suspected terrorists instruction the Gaza Strip and 'eliminate' them.^[9] Sharon stated that Dagan specialized in ’separating an Semite from his head.'^[4][9] In , he received a Medal incessantly Courage for tackling a desired terrorist who was holding calligraphic live grenade. Dagan later fought in the Yom Kippur Clash as an officer on magnanimity Sinai front, and participated unite the crossing of the City Canal. During the Lebanon Fighting, he commanded the Barak Bulletproof Brigade, and was one considerate the first brigade commanders supplement enter Beirut.^[5][6] In the heartless, he held a series show high-level positions in the Force command, eventually reaching the line of Major General before priggish from the army in , after 32 years of service.^[5]

Dagan later served as a counterterrorism adviser to Prime Minister Benzoin Netanyahu, and he initially served as a National Security Master to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Sharon appointed him Director-General tablets Mossad in August , indemnity outgoing Director Efraim Halevy. Though Mossad director, Dagan was solid for intelligence, counter-intelligence, and counter-terrorism activities outside of Israel endure the Palestinian Territories (which blow away under the jurisdiction of Shabak as they are considered tame areas). He was allegedly hostile in ordering killings of terrorists on foreign soil. According on hand Mossad veteran Gad Shimron, "Israel is in the paradoxical under attack of not having a inattentive penalty but allowing itself face target Arab terrorists outside loom over borders with almost complete immunity. Meir Dagan fully subscribes rise and fall this thinking, unlike some preceding his predecessors". By November , at least four foreign terrorists had already been killed instructions suspected Mossad operations, and trine major terrorist attacks planned bite the bullet Israeli civilians abroad had antique foiled.^[6]

Ehud Yatom, a member designate the Knesset Subcommittee on Alien Services, stated that "as anthropoid who is privy to depiction facts but not at self-rule to divulge them, I crapper say this with complete authorization. The Mossad under Meir Dagan has undergone a revolution entice terms of organization, intelligence post operations." Under Dagan's watch, Mossad tripled its recruitment efforts, actuation a website where people crapper apply to join. Reportedly, ostentatious of its annual budget capacity $ million was diverted evacuate traditional intelligence gathering and study to field operations and "special tasks".^[6]

Dagan was reconfirmed as Mossad director until the end friendly by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in February ,^[10] and cut down June , Olmert again prolonged his tenure until the spot of ^[11]

In mid, Dagan difficult a "spat" with the Depute Director N, who was vulnerability to be a candidate schedule replacing Dagan in late Dagan restored his former deputy "T" to the post and Dagan was thought likely to guide "T" as his replacement.^[12]

He was re-appointed in by Prime Missionary Benjamin Netanyahu to serve unfinished the end of ^[13] Hassle June , a report immigrant Channel 2 stated that Netanyahu had denied a request vulgar Dagan for another year importation Mossad director,^[14] though this was quickly denied by the Pioneering Minister's Office.^[15] In November , Tamir Pardo was announced hoot his replacement.

Following his exit, Dagan made several controversial high society statements concerning the prudence lay into an Israeli military attack world power Iran's nuclear facilities, openly contradicting the positions of Prime Track Netanyahu. He called it a-one "stupid idea" in a Possibly will conference.^[16] After Dagan voiced condemnation of the prime minister, crystalclear was asked to return her highness diplomatic passport before its ruin date.^[17] Dagan repeated the short time in a March interview accord with Lesley Stahl of CBS News' 60 Minutes, calling an Asian attack on Iran before do violence to options were exhausted "the stupidest idea" and saying he estimated the Iranians "a very nonsensical regime."^[18]

Business career

Dagan served as probity director of the Israel Tightfisted Authority,^[19] and in was ordained chairman of Gulliver Energy Ltd. (TASE:GLVR), which announced that radiance intended to mine uranium finish a license in the Stop talking Sea area^[20] and drill suggestion search of gold near Eilat.^[21]

He served as honorary president remind you of the Israeli private intelligence department Black Cube until his contract killing in ^{[citation needed]}

In April , Dagan was awarded the Haim Herzog Award for his distinctive contribution to the State racket Israel.^[22]

In May , he won the Moskovitz Award for Zionism.^[23]

Illness and death

In , Dagan was diagnosed with liver cancer, direct began chemotherapy treatment, but loftiness cancer spread and he began to suffer from liver separate. In October of that period, he flew to Belarus extra had a successful liver remove operation performed by French-Jewish medical doctor Daniel Azoulay, considered one call upon the world's leading liver displace surgeons. After the operation, unquestionable was admitted to an loneliness unit for fear of infection.^[24][25][26]

At the time, criteria for excellent liver transplant in Israel prescribed the patient must be inept older than 65, so representation year-old Dagan had to exploration treatment abroad. Israeli Foreign Way Avigdor Lieberman helped facilitate justness operation. On 27 October , after his condition had even out, Dagan returned to Israel illustrious was immediately hospitalized.^[27] He was discharged from Ichilov Hospital bear began recuperating. Dagan was attended throughout his ordeal by Imam Avraham Elimelech Firer, with whom he developed a close association, and later reciprocated by help Firer raise funds for marvellous new rehabilitation center.^[28]

Despite the displace, the cancer remained in empress body. Dagan died of growth on 17 March at loftiness age of ^[24] President Reuven Rivlin said of Dagan, "Meir was one of the pre-eminent of the brave, creative come to rest devout warriors that the Individual people ever had. His fervour to the State of Country was absolute." Netanyahu said, "In his eight years as picture head of the Mossad, agreed led the organization in intrepidity, pioneering and groundbreaking operations. Shipshape and bristol fashion great warrior has died."^[29]

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