David Barnea

Mossad director 2021-

David Barnea in 2023 (US Embassy Jerusalem, CC2.0, via Wikimedia Commons).

David Barnea, nicknamed ‘Dedi’, has been the director of Israel's Mossad foreign intelligence agency since 2021.¹

Early life

David Barnea was born in 1965.² He enlisted in the IDF in 1983 and served in the Sayeret Matkal special forces unit. He subsequently earned a Bachelor’s degree from the New York Institute of Technology and an MBA from Pace University. He then worked at an investment bank in Israel as a business manager.³