- Aharon Yariv
MKs
Date of birth =20 December 1920
Year of Aliyah = 1935
Date of death =7 May 1994
Knesset(s) = 8th
Party = Alignment
Former parties =
Gov't roles = Minister of Transportation
Minister of InformationAharon "Aharale" Rabinovich Yariv ( _he. אהרן רבינוביץ' יריב,
20 December 1920 –7 May 1994 ) was anIsrael i politician and soldier.Born in
Moscow ,USSR , Yariv began his military service in theHaganah and later theBritish 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 theMunich Massacre in 1972, he served as Prime Minister Golda Meir's Advisor on Counterterrorism, where he directedOperation Wrath of God . After leaving the army, he joined the Alignment. He was elected to theKnesset 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".References
*Oren, Michael B. "Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making if the Modern Middle East". New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-19-515174-9, 76 p.
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00E5D71539F93AA35756C0A962958260 Obituary in "The New York Times"]External links
* [http://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=440 Aharon Yariv on the Knesset website (in English)]
* [http://www.tau.ac.il/jcss/yariv.html Eulogies from the Jafee Center for Strategic Studies]
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