Shabtai Shavit, the former director of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, died Tuesday while vacationing in Italy. He was 84 years old.
said Shavit died while on vacation in Italy, without specifying a cause of death. The statement quoted Mossad chief, David Barnea, praising Shavit as"a pillar of the world of operations, intelligence, security and strategy of the state of Israel."
Shavit led the Mossad from 1989 to 1996, guiding the agency through a critical juncture in Middle East history. He oversaw Israeli operations on foreign soil during the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of the Cold War and the first Gulf War in 1991. Over more than three decades in the service, he spent some two years in an intelligence post in Iran, before the Islamic Revolution that transformed Iran from an Israeli ally to its strongest foe.
The late Shabtai Shavit, a former director of Mossad, appears at a press conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 11, 2015. The Mossad has a history of targeting and killing scientists developing weaponry seen as a threat to Israel, which apparently continued under Shavit's watch. In 1990, two Mossad agents in Brussels were widely suspected to have killed Gerald Bull, a Canadian missile engineer who had promised to build a"supergun" for Iraq that could fire huge shells at
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