| LC control no. | no2018069691 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Shavit, Shabtai, 1939-2023 |
| Variant(s) | שביט, שבתי, 1939- Shavit, Shabtai, 1939- |
| Other standard no. | 0000 0004 9934 2851 407149196281874790874 Q1367833 |
| Associated country | Israel |
| Birth date | 1939-07-17 |
| Death date | 2023-09-05 |
| Place of birth | Haifa (Israel) |
| Place of death | Italy |
| Affiliation | Israel. Mosad le-modiʻin ṿe-tafḳidim meyuḥadim |
| Profession or occupation | Intelligence officers |
| Special note | Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | 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.) 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) |
| Associated language | heb |
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