Avraham Ahituv
Avraham Ahituv ( Hebrew אברהם אחיטוב; born October 10, 1930 in Germany as Abraham Gottfried ; died July 15, 2009 in Ramat Gan ) was the fifth director of the Israeli secret service Shin Bet from 1974 to 1981 .
Life
Avraham Ahituv was born as Abraham Gottfried in 1930 in a religious-Jewish family in Germany. In 1935 he immigrated to Palestine with his parents and two younger twin brothers . After a short training in the Yeshiva Bnei Akiva in Kfar Haroeh, a religious, according to Rabbi Kook named moshav , he joined with 16 years of Hagana and hebraisierte at this time his family name to Ahituv. In 1949 he became an employee of the SHAI espionage department, which was founded during the War of Independence and which later became part of the Schin Bet secret service . In the 1950s he headed the Arab branch of the secret service. During this time, he made up his Abitur and completed a law degree with distinction. In 1961 he switched to the Mossad foreign intelligence service . In 1974 he was appointed director of Shin Bet by Yitzchak Rabin and confirmed in this position by Menachem Begin .
After leaving the secret service, he headed the logistics department of Bank Hapoalim and was director of IMI . He died in 2009 in Tel Hashomer Hospital in Ramat Gan.
In their book under the (translated) title Spies - Espionage affairs in Israel , Eitan Haber and Yossi Melman report that in 1955 Ahituv revealed the identity of the Egyptian spy Rifaat El Gamal (1927–1982), who worked as a double agent under the name Jack Beton in Israel lived and passed on intelligence information to Egypt under the code name Jated ("Wedge").
literature
- Nissim Mischal, Michael Bar-Zohar: Mossad: missions of the Israeli secret service . Bastei-Lübbe, 2015. ISBN 978-3-86995-051-8 Partial online view
Web links
- Secret Service website Short biography (English)
- Obituary from Ynetnews , July 15, 2009
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ahituv, Avraham |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gottfried, Abraham (birth name); אחיטוב, אברהם (Hebrew) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Israeli director of the Israeli secret service Schin Bet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 15, 2009 |
| Place of death | Ramat Gan |