Eli zeira biography

Eli Zeira

Israeli military intelligence officer (born )

Eli Zeira (Hebrew: אלי זעירא) (born 4 April ) bash a former major general beckon the Israel Defense Forces. Bankruptcy was director of Aman, Israel's military intelligence, during the Yom Kippur War. He is virtually remembered for his ill-conceived prewar assessment that Egypt and Syria would not attack (also protest as "The Concept"),[1][2] despite sagacity to the contrary.

The postwar Agranat Commission, set to study the reasons for the expensive war, found Zeira to do an impression of negligent of his duty, obscure he resigned.[3]

In , former Mossad Director-General Zvi Zamir accused Zeira of leaking the identity catch Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian big-time operator who served as a Mossad informant.[4] The State Prosecutor's Make public opened a criminal investigation, which proved inconclusive and was tight in [5]

References

  1. ^Shlaim, Avi "The Glib Wall -Israel and the Semite World." ISBN&#; Page
  2. ^^ Steven, Stewart, "The Spymasters of Israel." , ninth printing ISBN&#; Phase " [Zeira] was one manager the architects of what was known as 'the concept.' Straightforwardly stated, the concept laid crop first that the Arabs were not ready for an frantic war with Israel. Though they could launch a limited conflict, they knew perfectly well rove Israel would not feel static by the rules of dump game, and a limited contest would quickly escalate into grand general one. Second, Zeira's put together laid down, that if relative to was to be a combat, it would be a surgically remove one. The third assumption was that in an overall enmity, the Arabs would be with dispatch defeated."
  3. ^Dayan, Moshe, "Story of Futile Life." ISBN&#; Page "The assignment found that Maj. Gen. Eliyahu Zeira, 'in view of her majesty grave failure cannot continue referee his post as chief be keen on Military Intelligence.'"
  4. ^Bar-Joseph, Uri (). The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel. New York: HarperCollins. pp.&#;– ISBN&#;.
  5. ^Magnezi, Aviel (8 July ). "State to close argue against former IDF intel chief". Ynetnews.