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Born in Poland on 3 March 1925, [1] [2] Zamir immigrated with his family to the then British Mandate of Palestine when only seven months old. At the age of 18, Zamir began his military career, first as a soldier in the Haganah's Palmach, a unit that included future Israeli leaders such as Moshe Dayan and Yitzhak Rabin.
Jan 2, 2024 · Zvi Zamir, the head of the Mossad during the Yom Kippur War and the author of the most dramatic coded message in the history of the State of Israel, died Tuesday at the age of 98. Zamir led the ...
Jan 16, 2024 · He began his military career as a teenager with the Palmach, a Jewish underground defense force, and he was later a battalion commander during Israel’s war of independence.
Jan 2, 2024 · Zvi Zamir, a former head of Israeli intelligence agency Mossad whose warning that Egypt and Syria were about to attack Israel in 1973 was largely ignored by the government, has died at the age of 98.
Jan 2, 2024 · Zamir's death was announced by Mossad, which he led from 1968 to 1974. A former army general, Zamir oversaw Israel's campaign of assassinating Palestinian commanders blamed for the massacre of ...
Jan 18, 2024 · Zamir’s military career was extensive and impactful. He served as a commander in the Haganah’s Palmach strike force during the 1948-49 War of Independence. In 1946, he was arrested by the British police and spent 10 months in the Latrun detention camp.
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Jan 3, 2024 · 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.
