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{{short description|Israeli intelligence officer (born 1929)}}
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| birth_place = [[Jerusalem]], [[Mandatory Palestine]]▼
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1929|11|21|df=y}}
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'''Nahum Admoni''' (
Admoni was born in [[Jerusalem]] in [[Mandatory Palestine]]. His parents, Eliyahu and Sima Rothbaum, were middle-class [[History of the Jews in Poland|Polish
▲'''Nahum Admoni''' (born 21 November 1929) was the Director of the [[Mossad]] from 1982 to 1989.
Shortly after becoming the Mossad Director the [[Sabra and Shatila massacre]] occurred. Admoni was criticized by the [[Kahan Commission]] for not warning the cabinet before allowing the Gemayel Phalangists into the camps, though no action against him was recommended. During his service as Mossad Director, Admoni watched over the [[Jonathan Pollard]] affair, in which it was revealed that Israel (though not the Mossad directly) was spying on the United States. He also endured the revelation of Israeli involvement in the [[
▲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.
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
▲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.
He is married to Nina Admoni (
▲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>
▲== Notes ==
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* Black, Ian. Morris, Benny. ''Israel's Secret Wars: A History of Israel's Intelligence Services''. New York: Grove Press, 1991. {{ISBN
▲== 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.
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<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nachum_Admoni.jpg|title=עברית: נחום אדמוני|date=29 December 2015}}</ref>
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