Aman
Aman (Agaf ha-Modi'in) is Israel's military intelligence agency.[1] Although oftern overshadowed by Mossad and Shin Bet, Aman has historically been the largest Israeli intelligence agency. it is a part of the military general staff, reporting to the Chief of Staff and the Minister of Defence.[2]
Contents
Structure and Personnel
Journalists Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman reported that Aman consisted of six departments in 1991, of which the largest were the collection and production departments.[2]
Leadership
Directors of Military Intelligence
- Isser Be'eri 1948-49
- Col. Chaim Herzog 1949-50
- Col. Binyamin Gibli 1950-55
- Maj. Gen. Yehoshafat Harkabi 1955-59
- Maj. Gen. Chaim Herzog 1959-62
- Maj. Gen. Meir Amit 1962-63
- Maj. Gen. Aharon Yariv 1964-72
- Maj. Gen. Eliahu Zeira 1972-74
- Maj. Gen. Shlomo Gazit 1974-78
- Maj. Gen. Yehoshua Saguy 1979-83
- Maj. Gen. Ehud Barak 1983-85
- Maj. Gen. Amnon Shahak 1986-91
- Maj. Gen. Uri Saguy 1991-95
- Maj. Gen. Moshe Ya'alon 1995[3]-1998
- Maj. Gen. Amos Malka 1998[4] -2001
- Maj. Gen. Aharon Zeevi Farkash
- Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin 2006-2010.
- Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi 2010-[5]
Deputy Directors of Military Intelligence
- Yehoshafat Harkabi 1950-1955[6]
- Yuval Ne'eman 1955-1957[7]
- Uzi Narkis C.1958[8]
- Reuven Yerdor c.1982.[9]
- Meir Elran 1987-1989[10]
- Danny Rothschild C.1991[11]
Collection Department
The Collection Department is responsible for both agent and informer human human intelligence, and for signals intelligence.[2]
Production Department
The production department is responsible for intelligence analysis.[2] The Department is known in Hebrew as Aman Mehkar.[12] English sources use various names for the department including research department, production department, research and analysis department, analysis and production department and research division.
The Department is organised in a desk system along functional and geographical lines.[2]
Heads of the Production Department
- Aryeh Shalev 1967-1974.
- Amos Gilboa 1981-1984[12]
- Danny Rothschild C.1991[13]
- Ya'acov Ami-Dror c.1992-c.1994.[12]
- Amos Gilad - 1996-2001[14]
- Yosef Kuperwasser C.2001-2006.[15]
- Yossi Beyditz C.2006.[16]
Western Area desk
- Responsible for Egypt, Sudan and Libya.[2]
Eastern Area desk
- Responsible for Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.[2]
Southern Area desk
- Jordan and the Arabian peninsula.[2]
Palestinian desk
- Palestinian desk.[2]
"Foreign left-wing groups" desk
- Haaretz reported in March 2011 that a department had been created in the research division that "will monitor Western groups involved in boycotting Israel, divesting from it or imposing sanctions on it. The unit will also collect information about groups that attempt to bring war crime or other charges against high-ranking Israeli officials, and examine possible links between such organizations and terror groups."[17]
Other desks
Contact
Eternal Resources
- Barak Ravid, 'Military Intelligence monitoring foreign left-wing organizations', Haaretz, 21 March 2011.
Notes
- ↑ Aman, GlobalSecurity.org, accessed 29 July 2009.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman, Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community, Houghton Mifflin, 1991, pp.207-208.
- ↑ ISRAEL - Heads of A'man, Mossad, & Shin Bet, The Literature of Intelligence, Muskingum University,via the Internet Archive, accessed 29 July 2009.
- ↑ Ira Chernus, Helping Israel on a False and Dangerous Course, CommonDreams.org, 28 June 2004.
- ↑ Anshel Pfeffer and Amos Harel, Rising star Kochavi to replace Yadlin as IDF intelligence chief, Haaretz, 17 September 2011.
- ↑ Avi Shlaim, Obituary: Professor Yehoshafat Harkabi, The independent, 14 September 1994.
- ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1518360/Yuval-Neeman.html Yuval Ne'eman], The Telegraph, 15 May 2006.
- ↑ Avi Shlaim, [Israel, the Great Powers, and the Middle East Crisis of 1958], Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 12:2, May 1999, archived at users.ox.ac.uk, accessed 9 July 2012.
- ↑ Seymour M. Hersh, The Samson Option, Faber and Faber, 1993, p.293.
- ↑ Meir Elran, Institute for National Security Studies, accessed 9 July 2012.
- ↑ Danny Rothschild, World Economic Forum, accessed 10 July 2012.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Steve Rodan, Dynamic Duo, Jerusalem Post, 14 October 1994.
- ↑ Danny Rothschild, World Economic Forum, accessed 10 July 2012.
- ↑ Akiva Eldar, Popular Misconceptions, Haaretz, 11 June 2004.
- ↑ About Us, American Center for Democracy, accessed 31 July 2009, archived at the Internet Archive.
- ↑ Ronny Sofer, IDF: Syrian army in battle positions, ynetnews.com, 15 october 2006.
- ↑ Barak Ravid, [http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/military-intelligence-monitoring-foreign-left-wing-organizations-1.350713 Haaretz, 21 March 2011.
