Aharon Yariv was an Israeli general and intelligence chief who, after the 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes, became Golda Meir's adviser on counterterrorism. The 2010 opening said that after the Munich Massacre in 1972 he "directed Operation Wrath of God." Today's opening says only that he was "an adviser to the Prime Minister on combating terror," naming neither the Munich massacre nor the operation he directed; the word massacre survives twice elsewhere in the article. A reader today does not learn from the opening that Yariv's counterterrorism role followed the Munich massacre or that he directed Israel's named retaliatory operation.
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Aharon "Aharale" Rabinovich Yariv ( , 20 December 1920 – 7 May 1994) was an Israeli politician and soldier.1Born in Moscow in the Soviet Union , Yariv began his military service in the Haganah and later the British Army . He then joined the IDF , first as a field officer, and later as the Israeli military attaché to Washington . From 1964 to 1972, Yariv was the head of Aman , the IDF's military intelligence. After the Munich Massacre in 1972, he served as Prime Minister Golda Meir's Advisor on Counterterrorism, where he directed Operation Wrath of God . After leaving the army, he joined the Alignment . He was elected to the Knesset in the 1973 elections , and was appointed Transportation Minister , and then Information Minister . He resigned from the latter post in 1975, and then from the Knesset shortly before the 1977 elections . Yitzhak Rabin , Prime Minister at the time of his death, gave the eulogy at his funeral in 1994. Yariv was played by actor Amos Lavi in Steven Spielberg's 2005 film Munich .2
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member of the Knesset Aharon Yariv ( , 20 December 1920 – 7 May 1994) was an Israeli politician and general.
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Israeli politician and general Not to be confused with Amnon Yariv . Aharon Yariv ( , 20 December 1920 – 7 May 1994) was an Israeli politician and general.
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Israeli politician and general Not to be confused with Amnon Yariv . 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 the IDF Command and Staff College (PUM), Chief of Staff of the Central Military District, commander of the Golani Brigade , and from 1964 to 1972 Head of the Military Intelligence Directorate (AMAN), playing a significant role in the preparation of the Six-Day War .After completing his military service, he was an adviser to the Prime Minister on combating terror, then a member of the Knesset from the Maarah bloc, Minister of Transport and Minister 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 at Tel Aviv University , which he headed until his death.
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