Amos Manor

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Amos Manor ( Hebrew עמוס מנור; born October 8, 1918 in Sighetu Marmației , Austria-Hungary , now Romania ; died August 5, 2007 in Tel Aviv ; born Arthur Mendelowitz ) was director of the Israeli secret service Schin Bet from 1953 to 1963 .

Life

Amos Manor was born as Arthur Mendelowitz into a wealthy family in the Transylvanian city ​​of Sighetu Marmației. As a teenager, he co-founded a Zionist youth group. He learned the profession of engineer in Mulhouse, Alsace . When Transylvania fell to Hungary in 1940 with the Second Vienna Arbitration , he was drafted into the Hungarian army and had to do forced labor . In 1944, after the German invasion , he and his parents, his two brothers and his sister were deported on the first train transport from Budapest to Auschwitz , where his entire family was killed. He was the only one who survived and later made it to Mauthausen .

After the end of World War II , he organized illegal shipping to what was then Palestine for three years at the Jewish Agency from Bucharest . When the Institute for the Promotion of Illegal Immigration was closed in 1949 and the Romanian government refused to grant his application to emigrate to Israel, the Israeli embassy issued forged Czechoslovak passports for him and his wife and enabled them to leave Romania. In June 1949 he came to Israel. A month later he became an employee of the intelligence service , at that time under the direction of Isser Harel , and used the code name Walter Rappaport to disguise any connection with his relatives who remained in Romania. In January 1950 he took the name Amos Manor.

He was initially head of counterintelligence , Deputy Director in July 1952, and was from October 1953 to 1963 director of intelligence. In 1956 he forwarded Khrushchev's secret speech to the CIA and intensified intelligence cooperation with the United States . He maintained personal contacts with James Jesus Angleton , the chief of counterintelligence at the CIA. After leaving the secret service, he worked as a businessman in various companies. Until 1975 he represented the Geneva banker Tibor Rosenbaum in Israel , then the First Pennsylvania Bank , owner of the First International Bank of Israel , also headed the Israel Corporation and was a partner at Atlas , a hotel management company. He died in Tel Aviv in 2007 and was buried in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery.

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SURNAME Manor, Amos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mendelowitz, Arthur (maiden name); עמוס מנור (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli director of the Israeli secret service Shin Bet (1953–1963)
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Sighetu Marmației , Austria-Hungary , now Romania
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 2007
Place of death Tel Aviv