serviceyears birth_place allegiance nationality service birth_date article_title name occupation
1964 -- 1996 mandatory palestine state of israel 20px israel mossad 17 july 1939 shabtai shavit
 shabtai shavit director of mossad
shabtai shavit

shabtai shavit -lrb- ; born 17 july 1939 -rrb- was director general of the mossad from 1989 to 1996 .
shavit first joined the israel defense forces , where he served in the sayeret matkal .
from 1958 to 1959 , he was military governor of the southern command .
in 1964 , he joined the mossad , where he worked his way up to director general .
after retiring from the mossad , he spent five years as ceo of maccabi health services group .
from 2001 , he was chairman of the institute for counter-terrorism at the interdisciplinary center in herzliya , israel .
he was president and ceo of emg israel and chairman of athena .
shavit continued to work in government , including as advisor to the israeli national security council , advisor to the knesset committee on foreign affairs and national security sub-committee on intelligence , and as a member of the n.y.f.d. task force for future preparedness against terrorism .
