Nahum Admoni: Difference between revisions

▲'''Nahum Admoni''' (born 21 November 1929) was the Director of the [[Mossad]] from 1982 to 1989.

▲Admoni was born in [[Jerusalem]]. His parents were middle-class [[History of the Jews in Poland|Polish Jews]] who immigrated from near [[Gdańsk]]. Growing up, he studied at the [[Rehavia]] gymnasium. He fought in the [[1948 Arab-Israeli War]] in the [[SHAI]], the [[Haganah]] intelligence branch, and later in the newly created [[Aman (IDF)|military intelligence]]. After the war he went to the [[United States]] and studied at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], returning to [[Israel]] in 1954. There he rejoined the Israeli intelligence community, working his way up the chain of command to be Mossad Director [[Yitzhak Hofi]]'s deputy.

▲During his service as Mossad Director, Admoni watched over the [[Jonathan Pollard]] affair, in which it was revealed that Israel was spying on the United States. He also endured the revelation of Israeli involvement in the [[Iran-Contra Affair]] and the public abduction of [[Mordechai Vanunu]], who had revealed secrets of the [[Israel and weapons of mass destruction|Israeli nuclear weapons program]] to the [[United Kingdom|British]] press. Along with a number of other embarrassing incidents involving careless mistakes by Mossad agents, Admoni retired in 1989.

▲On August 28, 2006 he was appointed by prime minister [[Ehud Olmert]] to be chairman of an investigation committee, charged with investigating the actions of the government during the [[2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict]].<ref>Oren, Amir. "[http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/756385.html Kahan Commission criticized Admoni; Olmert made him head of panel]", ''Ha'aretz'', August 31, 2006. Retrieved August 31, 2006.</ref>

▲He is married to Nina Admoni (nee Wertans), who was born in Poland, and was among the Jews who fled to [[China]] during [[World War II]]. She later moved to the United States, and met Nahum while he was studying in [[University of California, Berkeley|Berkeley]]. The couple married, and she moved to Israel when he returned there.<ref>http://www.timesofisrael.com/a-young-jewish-girls-escape-from-death-to-idyllic-shanghai-during-world-war-ii/</ref>

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▲== References ==

▲*Black, Ian. Morris, Benny. ''Israel's Secret Wars: A History of Israel's Intelligence Services''. New York: Grove Press, 1991. ISBN 0-8021-1159-9, 427 p.