Shabtai Shavit, Mossad chief who helped open Jordan peace talks, dies at 84

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Shabtai Shavit, Mossad chief who helped open Jordan peace talks, dies at 84
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Mr. Shavit led Israel’s spy agency Mossad from 1989 to 1996 amid major political shifts including the collapse of the Soviet Union.

After leaving Mossad, Mr. Shavit was chief executive of one of Israel’s largest health networks, Maccabi Healthcare Services, and board chairman at the

at Reichman University in Herzliya, Israel. He also advised the New York Fire Department on preparing for possible terrorism-related scenarios., a Belgian-born American oil trader who fled to Switzerland before being indicted in 1983 on federal charges of tax evasion and breaking sanctions by buying oil from Iran. Mr. Shavit lauded Rich for allowing Mossad agents to use his offices and bankrolling airlifts of Jews from Ethiopia and elsewhere during times of crisis.

Mr. Shavit also did not hold back at dispensing criticism at leaders and others he saw as a threat to Israel’s security. He took frequent aim at former president Donald Trump, including his 2018The ultimate question for Mr. Shavit was how a potentially nuclear-armed Iran could be managed by Israel, which has athe Jerusalem Post. “We live in a dangerous area in a posture of mutually assured destruction, and we live. We have no choice.

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