Zvi Zamir

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Zvi Zamir
צבי זמיר
Zamir in 1979
Born	Zvicka Zarzevsky (1925-03-03)3 March 1925 Łódź, Poland
Died	2 January 2024(2024-01-02) (aged 98) Tel Aviv, Israel
Nationality	Israeli
Occupation	Director of Mossad
Espionage activity
Allegiance	State of Israel
Service branch	Palmach Israel Defense Forces Mossad
Service years	Palmach: 1942–1948 IDF: 1948–1968 Mossad: 1968–1974
Rank	Major general

Zvi Zamir (Hebrew: צבי זמיר; born Zvicka Zarzevsky; 3 March 1925 – 2 January 2024) was a major general in the Israel Defense Forces and the director of the Mossad from 1968 to 1974.

Early life

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.

Intelligence career

IDF posts

During the

Zamir was played by Ami Weinberg in Steven Spielberg's 2005 movie Munich.

His memoirs were published in

Zamir lived in Zahala, a neighborhood in the north of Tel Aviv. He died on 2 January 2024, at the age of 98.^[4]

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