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Aharon Yariv | |
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אהרן יריב | |
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| 1974 | Minister of Transportation |
| 1974–1975 | Minister of Information |
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| 1974–1977 | Alignment |
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| Born | 20 December 1920 Moscow,Russian SFSR |
| Died | 7 May 1994(1994-05-07) (aged 73) |
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Aharon Yariv (Hebrew:אהרן יריב; 20 December 1920 – 7 May 1994) was a Russian-born Israeli politician and general. During his military career, he was the first chief of theIDF Command and Staff College (PUM), Chief of Staff of the Central Military District, commander of theGolani Brigade, and from 1964 to 1972 Head of theMilitary Intelligence Directorate (AMAN), playing a significant role in the preparation of theSix-Day War. After completing his military service, he was an adviser to the Prime Minister on combating terror, then a member of theKnesset from the Maarah bloc,Minister of Transport andMinister of Information of Israel. During this period, he became one of the co-authors of the Yariva-Shem-Tova formula, which lists the conditions for Israel's negotiations with the Palestinians. Leaving public office in 1975, two years later he created the Center for Strategic Studies atTel Aviv University, which he headed until his death.
Aharon ("Aharale") Rabinovich (later Yariv) was born inMoscow in theRussian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Heimmigrated toMandatory Palestine at the age of 15 and studied at thePardes Hanna Agricultural High School. He began his military service in theHaganah in 1938,[1] and later served as an officer in theBritish Army during World War II.
Yariv served in theIsrael Defense Forces as a field officer. Among his duties he commanded theGolani Brigade. Later he served as the Israeli military attaché toWashington. During 1953-1956 he was a member of the founding team and the first commander of theIDF Command and Staff College.[2] From 1964 to 1972, he was head ofAman, the IDF's military intelligence.[3] After theMunich Massacre in 1972, he became Prime MinisterGolda Meir's advisor on counterterrorism and directedMossad assassinations following the Munich massacre. During theYom Kippur War of 1973 he was appointed as a special assistant to the IDF chief of staff and at the end of the war led the Israeli military delegation at the Kilometer 101 ceasefire talks with Egypt's General MohamedAbdel Ghani el-Gamasy which endeavoured to bring about a military disengagement treaty.[4]
After leaving the army, he joined theAlignment political party. He was elected to theKnesset in the1973 elections, and was appointedTransportation Minister, and thenInformation Minister. He resigned from the latter post in 1975, and then from the Knesset shortly before the1977 elections. In March 1979 he concluded the PLO had failed to disrupt normal life, halt immigration or deter tourism.[5]
In 1977 he founded the Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University (later renamed the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies and now theInstitute for National Security Studies), Israel’s leadingnational security think tank. He headed the Institute until his death in 1994.
Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister at the time of his death, gave the eulogy at his funeral in 1994.
The role of Yariv was played byAmos Lavi inSteven Spielberg's 2005 filmMunich.
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