with Zeid Bin Ra'ad and Efraim Halevy on Jan 24, 2013
with Efraim Halevy on Apr 25, 2006
Ephraim Halevy is an Israeli lawyer and intelligence expert. He was the ninth director of Mossad and the 2nd head of the Israeli National Security Council.
From 1957-1961, Halevy was the editor of the journal ?Survery,” published by the Chief Education Officer. In 1961, he began his work in the Mossad. In 1967, he was selected to the Chief Branches Forum. Halevy remained in the Mossad for the next 28 years, heading three different branches throughout. From 1990-1995, under the directorship of Shabtai Shavit, he served as deputy director and as head of the headquarters branch. In March 1998, Halevy became the director of Mossad following the resignation of Danny Yatom. In 1996, he became the Israeli ambassador to the European Union in Brussels. Halevy served as the envoy and confidant of three Prime Ministers: Yitzhak Shamir, Yitzhak Rabin, and Shimon Peres.
On October 2002, Halevy was appointed as the 2nd head of the National Security Council and an advisor to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. In June 2003, he resigned from this position after Sharon refrained from accepting his recommendations on a host of issues and went to teach at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of the book ?The role of the Intelligence Community in the Age of Strategic Alternatives for Israel.” In 2006 he published the book ?Man in the Shadows,” covering Middle Eastern history since the late 1980s.
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