Meir dagan biography books
Meir dagan biography books
Meir Dagan: The Spy Who Learned the Limits of Power...
Meir Dagan
Major General for the Israel Defence Forces and head of the Mossad, Israel's intelligence service
Aluf Meir Dagan (Hebrew: מאיר דגן; 30 January 1945 – 17 March 2016) was an Israel Defense ForcesMajor General (reserve) and Director of the Mossad.[2]
Personal life and education
Meir Huberman (later Dagan) was born on a train on the outskirts of Kherson,[3] between the Soviet Union and Poland during World War II to Polish Jewish parents who were fleeing Poland for the Soviet Union to escape the Holocaust.
His maternal grandfather, Ber Erlich Sloshny, was killed by the Nazis in Lukow. In 2009, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth published two photos of Nazi soldiers standing next to a kneeling Sloshny shortly before they shot him.[4] During his term as Director-General of the Mossad, Dagan kept one of the photographs hanging in his office.[4] Meir and his parents survived the Holocaust, and in 1950, the family made aliyah