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'''Nahum Admoni''' ({{lang-he|נחום אדמוני}}; born November 21, 1929) is a former [[Israel]]i intelligence officer who served as the Director-General of the [[Mossad]] from 1982 to 1989.
Admoni was born in [[Jerusalem]] in [[Mandatory Palestine]]. His parents, Eliyahu and Sima Rothbaum, were middle-class [[History of the Jews in Poland|Polish Jewish]] immigrants. Growing up, he studied at the [[Gymnasia Rehavia|Rehavia Gymnasium]]. In 1946, he enlisted in the [[Haganah]] and joined the Third Battalion of the [[Palmach]]. He fought in the [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]] in the [[SHAI]], the [[Haganah]] intelligence branch, and later in the [[Aman (IDF)|military intelligence]] of the newly created [[Israel Defense Forces]]. He was discharged from the army in 1950 with the rank of Lieutenant. He then went to the [[United States]] and studied international relations at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], returning to [[Israel]] in 1954. There he rejoined the Israeli intelligence community, working his way up the [[command hierarchy|chain of command]] to be Mossad Director [[Yitzhak Hofi]]'s deputy. In 1982 the designated director of the Mossad [[Yekutiel Adam]] was killed in [[1982 Lebanon War]] and Admoni was chosen to replace him.
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 [[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. Admoni retired in 1989.
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