Conductor Politician

Led the centrist Israeli political party Gil and served as Minister of Senior Citizens

In charge of the Mossad operation that led to the arrest of Adolf Eichmann

Served as an advisor on terrorism to Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and in 1981 he was appointed to head the Bureau of Scientific Relations, then an intelligence entity on par with Mossad, Aman and Shabak

Assumed responsibility for and resigned over the Jonathan Pollard affair, and the Bureau was disbanded

During the 1947-1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, he served as a soldier in the Yiftach Brigade, participating in combat operations, and was wounded in combat on the day after Israeli independence was declared

Subject to an arrest warrant issued by the United States FBI