Tamir Pardo

Mossad Director 2011-16

Tamir Pardo in 2015 (Haim Zach, Spokesperson Unit of the President of Israel, CC3.0).

Tamir Pardo was the director of Mossad from 2011 until 2016.¹ A long-serving operations officer, he took over the covert action campaign against Iran’s nuclear programme begun under predecessor Meir Dagan, but clashed with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over plans for a conventional military strike. After his departure from Mossad, he emerged as a stark critic of Netanyahu’s proposed judicial reforms.