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Past Event
Seminar

A Conversation with Former Mossad Director Tamir Pardo

RSVP Required Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

The Intelligence Project will host a lunch with Tamir Pardo, Former Director of Mossad, from 2:00-3:15pm in the Belfer Center Library. Graham Allison will moderate. 

Refreshments will be provided on a first come, first served basis. Please RSVP.

Date: Time: - Location: Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369
Tamir Pardo speaks with Graham Allison at a JFK IOP Forum at HKS

About

Tamir Pardo served as Director of Israel’s Mossad from 2011-2016. Born and raised in Tel Aviv, Tamir served in the IDF in the special forces unit (Sayeret Matkal) and participated in the famous Operation Entebbe of 1976. He joined the Mossad in 1980 and rose through the ranks as technical and operations officer. Tamir then commanded its special operations division before serving two stints as Deputy Director (2002 and 2007—2009). Tamir led Mossad during a period of dramatic changes in the Middle East, taking command two weeks before the ousting of Tunisia’s president and the start of Arab Spring. During his term as Director contended with the resulting regional upheavals, Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas. He also maintained unprecedented intelligence cooperation with the United States despite turbulence in political relations between the two countries, and for increasing Mossad’s capabilities in the cyber domain.

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