03 — DIRECTOR
Shabtai Shavit
Shabtai Shavit directed the Mossad from 1989 to 1996. The encyclopedia places his term across the end of the Cold War and the mass-migration era that included the 1991 Operation Solomon airlift of Ethiopian Jews.
Evidence Assessment
Term dates (1989–1996) and the 1991 airlift within the period.
Operational detail beyond documented events is not established by the public preview material.
Key Facts
- Role:
- Director of the Mossad
- Term:
- 1989–1996
- Predecessor:
- Nahum Admoni
- Successor:
- Danny Yatom (1996)
- Period events:
- Operation Solomon (1991)
End of the Cold War, mass migration
Shavit's term is recorded across the post-Cold War transition. The period is documented for large-scale Jewish emigration and evacuation activity, including the 1991 Operation Solomon airlift from Ethiopia.
Operation Solomon (1991)
The chronology records that more than fourteen thousand Ethiopian Jews were airlifted from Addis Ababa in a single coordinated evacuation. It is treated here as a documented event of the period.
Evidence note
Public preview material establishes the term dates and the period's documented events; operational attribution beyond that is not supported.
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Sources
- Mossad Encyclopedia director record
- Field note: Fourteen Directors, One Institution
- Chronology, 1991