Meir Amit pictured on 10 April 1957 (David Gurfinkel, public domain).
Meir Amit (1921-2009) served at head of Israel’s military intelligence directorate, Aman, in 1962-3, and as the third director of the Mossad foreign intelligence agency from 1963 to 1968.
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