Shavit, Shabtai, 1939-2023

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Name (Hebrew)
שביט, שבתי, 1939-2023
Name (Latin)
Shavit, Shabtai, 1939-2023
Other forms of name
Shavit, Shabtai, 1939-
Shavit, Shabtai
שביט, שבתאי, 1939-2023
Date of birth
1939-07-17
Date of death
2023-09-05
Place of birth
Nesher (Israel)
Occupation
Intelligence officers
Associated Language
heb
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q1367833
Library of congress: no2018069691
Sources of Information
  • New York times, 9 Sept. 2023:in an obituary on page B10 (Shabtai Shavit, born July 17, 1939 in Nesher, a suburb of coastal Haifa, died Tuesday [Sept. 5, 2023] in Italy, aged 84; who as director-general of the Israel intelligence agency the Mossad in the 1990s helped broker a peace agreement with Jordan, oversaw the assassinations of Islamic terrorists and navigated the global fallout from the collapse of the Soviet Union; Mr. Shavit and the agency were widely praised for their role in bringing Israel and Jordan to the table to sign a treaty in 1994, ending a state of war between the two countries that had existed since 1948, when Israel was founded; he was even more a spymaster who was accused of ordering deadly retaliations for terrorist attacks and staging pre-emptive strikes; recruited to the Mossad in 1964, Mr. Shavit worked for the agency for 32 years, including seven years as director under three prime ministers)
  • Shavit, Shabtai, 1939- Rosh ha-mosad, 2018:title page (שבתי שביט = Shabtai Shaviṭ); title page verso, etc. (Shabtai Shavit [in rom.]; He served as Head of the Mosad, the Israeli national intelligence agency, from 1989-1996.)
  • Wikipedia:(He was born on July 17, 1939.)
  • יומן ומכתבים - שליחות בכורדיסטאן, 2013.
  • ראש המוסד, 2018:דף השער (שבתי שביט) ; מעבר לדף השער (Shabtai Shavit)
  • Shabtai Shavit) ; שבתי שביט); ( (ויקיפדיה, נצפה ב-13 במרץ 2018) )