Aharon Ze'evi-Farkash
Aharon Ze'evi-Farkash is an Israeli general. He was the head of the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate from 2002 to 2006.
Biography
Ze'evi-Farkash was born in Beclean, in northeastern Transylvania, Romania. He received a B.A. and M.A. in Middle East and Islam Studies from Tel Aviv University, as well as an AMP/ISMP from the Harvard Business School.Military and academic career
He commanded the Israel Defense Forces Technological and Logistics Branch and the IDF Planning Branch. He is head of the Intelligence and National Defense Program of the Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).According to Der Spiegel, before Ze'evi-Farkash's retirement from the military he set up a secret commission to evaluate all available information on the missing Israeli navigator Ron Arad. The commission concluded that Arad died between 1993 and 1997.