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Shavit, Shabtai, 1939-2023

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Personal name headingShavit, Shabtai, 1939-2023
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Variant(s)שביט, שבתי, 1939-
Shavit, Shabtai, 1939-
Other standard no.0000 0004 9934 2851
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Q1367833
Associated countryIsrael
Birth date1939-07-17
Death date2023-09-05
Place of birthHaifa (Israel)
Place of deathItaly
AffiliationIsrael. Mosad le-modiʻin ṿe-tafḳidim meyuḥadim
Profession or occupationIntelligence officers
Special noteNon-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found inShavit, 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.)
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)
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