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Shlomo Gazit (born Shlomo Weinstein , in 1926) is a retired Major General in the Israel Defense Forces and was in the past head of the intelligence service of the Israeli army, 1974–1978. Gazit was born in 1926 in Istanbul , Turkey , to a family of Ukrainian Jews . He served as the head of the assessment department in IDF intelligence before the Six Day War , but then took leave to study for a Master degree in history . Gazit's studies were interrupted in the summer of 1967, when he was appointed by Defense Minister Moshe Dayan to be in charge of a committee tasked with running the political, security, and later economic affairs in the newly captured territories. This group would later be renamed "The Unit for the Coordination of Operations in the Territories". After seven years, Gazit was promoted to head of the Military Intelligence Directorate, a position he held from 1974 to 1978. Upon his retirement from the IDF, he served as President of the Ben Gurion University in Beersheba for two four-year terms. Since 1988 he is a member of the staff of Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at the Tel Aviv University .1
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Shlomo Gazit (born 1926) is a retired Israeli military officer and academic.A former Major General in the Israel Defense Forces , he headed Israel's military intelligence service .He later served as President of Ben-Gurion University and head of the Jewish Agency .
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Shlomo Gazit ( ; born 1926) is a retired Israeli military officer and academic. A former Major General in the Israel Defense Forces , he headed Israel's Military Intelligence Directorate . He later served as President of Ben-Gurion University and head of the Jewish Agency .
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Israeli military officer and academic (1926–2020) Shlomo Gazit ( ; 22 October 1926 – 8 October 2020) was an Israeli military officer and academic.He later served as president of Ben-Gurion University and director general of the Jewish Agency .
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Israeli military officer and academic (1926–2020) Shlomo Gazit ( Hebrew : שלמה גזית ; 22 October 1926 – 8 October 2020) was an Israeli military officer and academic. He later served as president of Ben-Gurion University and director general of the Jewish Agency .
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retired major general in the israel defense forces and was in the past head of the intelligence service of the
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israeli military officer and academic
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