Nahum Admoni was the Director of the Mossad

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 from 1982 to 1989. Born in Jerusalem to Polish

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 immigrants, he fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War

1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, known to Israelis as the War of Independence or War of Liberation The war commenced after the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine and the creation of an independent Israel at midnight on 14 May 1948 when, following a period of civil war, Arab armies invaded...

 in the SHAI

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, the Haganah

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 intelligence branch, and later in the newly created Israeli Defense Force Intelligence

Aman (IDF)

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. After the war he went to the United States

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 and studied at the University of California, Berkeley

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, returning to Israel

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 in 1954. There he rejoined the Israeli intelligence community, working his way up the chain of command to be Mossad Director Yitzhak Hofi

Yitzhak Hofi

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's deputy.

During his service as Mossad Director, Admoni watched over the Jonathan Pollard

Jonathan Pollard

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 affair, in which it was revealed that Israel was spying on the United States. He also endured the revelation of Israeli involvement in the Iran-Contra Affair

Iran-Contra Affair

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 and the public abduction of Mordechai Vanunu

Mordechai Vanunu

Mordechai Vanunu ; is a former Israeli nuclear technician who, citing his opposition to weapons of mass destruction, revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. He was subsequently lured to Italy by a Mossad agent, where he was drugged and kidnapped by...

, who had revealed secrets of the Israeli nuclear weapons program

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 to the British

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 press. Along with a number of other embarrassing incidents involving careless mistakes by Mossad agents, Admoni retired in 1989.

On August 28, 2006 he was appointed by prime minister Ehud Olmert

Ehud Olmert

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 to be chairman of an investigation committee, charged with investigating the actions of the government during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict

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