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  MOSSAD HEAD DANNY YATOM RESIGNS POST   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Yatom's significant contribution to Israel's security over the past 35 years, in both the IDF and the Mossad.
Yatom wrote: "I do not accept the findings of the Ciechanover Commission report regarding faults in my performance, which were determined despite clear evidence to the contrary which I presented to the commission's members.
Yatom to remain in his post until a successor is named and to assist the new head in an orderly transition.
www.fas.org /irp/news/1998/02/980224-yatom.htm   (299 words)

  
 Notorious brothers brush aside scandal and crimes in race for power - smh.com.au
Ehud Yatom, a self-confessed murderer of Palestinians in custody, was barred from becoming parliament's sergeant-at-arms but there is no legal impediment to him becoming an MP for the ruling Likud party.
Mr Yatom raged at the decision, saying the judicial body was "cut off from the nation", and announced he would stand for a seat in the parliament.
The Yatom brothers returned to the spotlight when party lists were submitted this week and showed a significant shift to the right in both the Likud and Labour.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/12/13/1039656218190.html   (1069 words)

  
 Scotland on Sunday - International - Israel's brothers beyond the pale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
And his older brother Danny, a former head of Israel’s spy agency Mossad, who made headlines after organising a bungled assassination attempt in Jordan, is set to enter parliament as a representative of the rival Labour faction.
Yatom raged at the decision, saying the judicial body was "cut off from the nation" and announced he would run for a seat in the parliament.
But Danny Yatom survived the embarrassing affair and was later chosen to serve as security adviser to the then Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, who lost power to Sharon in 2001.
scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=1392132002   (1115 words)

  
 MOSSAD
The identity of the director of Mossad was traditionally a state secret, or at least not widely publicized, but in March 1996 the Government announced the appointment of Major General Danny Yatom as the replacement for Shabtai Shavit, who resigned in early 1996.
On 24 March 1996 Prime Minister Shimon Peres appointed Major General Danny Yatom as the new Director General of Mossad, the first Director of Mossad to ever be publically identified.
Dan Yatom was appointed to the position of Head of the Mosad approximately a year and a half ago.
www.desert-voice.net /mosad.htm   (5345 words)

  
 j. - Bungled spy plot lands Mossad agents in Swiss jail
Yatom resigned after a government inquiry held him responsible for the failed assassination attempt last September on a Hamas leader in Jordan.
Yatom agreed, at Netanyahu's request, to stay on until a new director is appointed.
Yatom was appointed Mossad chief in May 1996 by former Prime Minister Shimon Peres.
www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/8138/format/html/displaystory.html   (435 words)

  
 Ex-Mossad head: Israel risks religious coup -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Danny Yatom, a major general in the reserves and a former head of the Mossad warns that Israel is facing the danger of a coup by Jewish extremists opposing Ariel Sharon’s Gaza withdrawal plan, if it does not stop far-right rabbis from preaching mutiny.
Danny Yatom headed Mossad from 1996 to 1998 and now serves as a lawmaker for the pro-pullout Labour party.
The Israeli army refused to comment on Yatom’s remarks and a religious, and former general said that he was being alarmist.
www.aljazeera.com /me.asp?service_ID=7797   (972 words)

  
 AM - Iran denies nuclear weapon plan
DANNY YATOM: It is for Israel an existential threat.
Now a Labour Party member of Israel's Parliament, Danny Yatom warns that the Iranians are likely to ignore international pressure and to continue work on their nuclear program.
DANNY YATOM: And taking into account the threat that might be possessed by the Iranians, I think that the democratic world should not ignore and should not exclude also a military option, but I think that it should be the last resort.
www.abc.net.au /am/content/2005/s1478414.htm   (524 words)

  
 IsraelFaxx.com newsletter: 0fax0208.txt
The Prime Minister's National Security Advisor, Danny Yatom, stated Monday that Israel remains committed to a troop withdrawal from the security zone of southern Lebanon no later than July 2000.
Yatom added that it would be preferred that the troop withdrawal was the result of a peace agreement but if not, a unilateral withdrawal would take place.
Yatom added that Israel sent several messages to Syrian President Hafez al-Assad via the White House over the past days but has not received responses indicating that Damascus was doing it all could to bring an end to Hizbullah attacks in southern Lebanon.
www.israelfaxx.com /webarchive/2000/02/0fax0208.html   (749 words)

  
 BBC News | Middle East | Barak appoints scandal-hit ex-spy chief
Retired Major General Danny Yatom resigned as the head of Mossad after the botched attempt to assassinate a senior Hamas official, Khalid Meshal, in Jordan in 1997.
Mr Yatom's appointment is likely to raise eyebrows given his background.
Danny Yatom was at the centre of the Meshal scandal
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/356528.stm   (312 words)

  
 Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
Danny Yatom, a Labor party Knesset member and former head of the Mossad, expressed fears that the growing number of senior religious army officers could result in a military coup.
Dismissing any possibility of a coup d'etat, Hagar said Yatom's comments were a "personal injury" to the army and to his own standing as a reserve officer.
Yoel Hasun, head of the Young Likud, responded with charges that Yatom's comments were incitement and called on the Knesset Ethics Committee to investigate.
www.israelnn.com /news.php3?id=79863   (368 words)

  
 Israel Independence Day on Virtual Jerusalem
The most senior defense and intelligence officials who are usually consulted or at least apprised of such operations, insisted that they had not been properly informed of this one.
He had given Yatom the go-ahead, he explained, after having been shown intelligence information that portrayed Mashaal as the mastermind of a string of terror attacks.
Yatom vigorously disputed the findings but stepped down on February 23 to allow a new broom to clean out the Mossad stable.
www.virtualjerusalem.com /jeisholidays/independence/53/def4.htm   (596 words)

  
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Knesset member Danny Yatom (Labor) called for the fighting in Lebanon to end immediately and condemned the decision to widen the incursion after the UN Security Council already passed a ceasefire resolution.
Yatom told Ynet that in the long days since the outbreak of the war, "I gave dozens of interviews and expressed support for the government despite the fact that I had some criticisms.
Yatom believes that various media elements pressed for the extension of the operation.
www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3290265,00.html   (561 words)

  
 Preemptive Karma: Right-wing coup in Israel?
There is a danger of a military coup in Israel if the trend of right-wing figures refusing to serve in the military widens "and more and more religious Jews that answer to rabbis enter the General Staff," Labor MK Danny Yatom warned on Friday.
Yatom, a major general in the reserves and a former head of the Mossad, made his remarks at a discussion of Tzvi Emitai's book "Code Blue" at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv.
Yatom was asked if he believed a coup could happen in Israel.
www.preemptivekarma.com /archives/2005/04/rightwing_coup.html   (190 words)

  
 World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Israel faces the danger of a coup by religious troops opposed to quitting the Gaza Strip if it does not stop far-right rabbis from preaching mutiny, a former head of the Mossad intelligence agency said on Sunday.
Danny Yatom, a retired army general who headed Mossad from 1996 to 1998 and now serves as a lawmaker for the pro-pullout Labour party, said he saw the seeds of full-blown rebellion.
The army declined comment and a religious former general said Yatom was being alarmist.
www.dailynews.lk /2005/04/11/wld05.htm   (141 words)

  
 Jew Watch - Jewish Terrorists - Shin Bet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Zucker said Yatom's disclosures will harm the Shin Bet's image and morale at a time when the agency is recovering from its shame in failing to protect Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin from a right-wing assassin last year.
It decided to take this unprecedented action because Yatom cannot be held accountable inside Israel due to the sweeping pardon granted to him." Yatom shocked Israel in July by giving the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper a graphic description of the double murder of two Palestinian bus hijackers 12 years ago.
Yatom, whose brother Danny Yatom heads Israel's Mossad spy service, said he killed the hijackers at the instruction of then Shin Bet chief Avraham Shalom and was proud of his actions.
jewwatch.com /jew-terrorists-shin_bet.html   (1776 words)

  
 Mossad chief resigns over Misha’al fiasco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Yatom was asked to remain until a replacement was found.
Yatom responsible for the failed attempt to assassinate Hamas political leader Khaled Misha’al in Amman in September but stopped short of calling for his resignation.
Yatom’s initial refusal to step down had provoked a revolt in the secret service and the resignation of one of his senior officers, the Yediot Aharonot newspaper said on Tuesday.
www.jordanembassyus.org /022598005.htm   (316 words)

  
 Intelligence Briefs - July 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Yatom had hoped the post would be a stepping stone to his return to running Mossad.
At the meeting, Yatom insisted that if news leaked about the sleepers being put on full alert, the official line to the Israeli media was that the agents were being activated to try and track Palestinian suicide bombers planning to strike at Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities.
Yatom has used his position with Nativ to revisit his old stomping grounds in Europe and the former Soviet Union.
www.gordonthomas.ie /old_briefs/aug2001.htm   (9921 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Details on Israel offer to Syria released   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
According to Danny Yatom, who headed then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak's political staff at the time, Barak was offering the Syrians a withdrawal from all of the captured Golan Heights down to the Sea of Galilee, except for a small Israeli presence on the east bank of the inland sea.
To get the Israeli message across, Yatom, currently a Labor Party lawmaker, approached Azmi Bishara in a meeting in the parliamentary cafeteria and sketched the Israeli position on a napkin, Bishara said.
"(Yatom) tried to say that Israel wants only symbolic control of the shore, in some places just 10 meters (yards), sometimes 200 meters (yards)," Bishara said.
www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2004/01/18/details_on_israel_offer_to_syria_released?mode=PF   (572 words)

  
 Schm
Danny Yatom resigned as head of Mossad on 24 February 1998.
In his resignation letter, Yatom insisted that he had been unfairly criticized by the commission investigating the failed assassination attempt in Jordan.
There have been reports in the Israeli press that Yatom was under pressure from within the intelligence agency to accept responsibility for the failure and step down.
intellit.muskingum.edu /alpha_folder/S_folder/schm.html   (810 words)

  
 Aljazeera.Net - Napkin diplomacy for Syrian peace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
According to Danny Yatom, who headed then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak's political staff, Barak was offering to withdraw from all of the captured Golan Heights down to the Sea of Galilee.
Yatom claims all land was offered back except for a small symbolic Israeli presence on the east bank of the inland sea, Israel's main source of fresh water.
To get the Israeli message across, Labour Party lawmaker Yatom approached Arab Knesset member Azmi Bishara in a meeting in the parliamentary cafeteria and sketched the Israeli position on a napkin.
english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/AAD9D2F8-2CEA-4DD0-BBAB-502CDE5C673A.htm   (496 words)

  
 Embassy of israel Press releases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Danny Yatom, head of Prime Minister Barak's diplomatic-security staff, and Cabinet Secretary Yitzhak Herzog visited Moscow, Rome and Oslo last week and meet with senior Russian, Italian, Vatican and Norwegian leaders.
Yatom and Herzog updated their interlocutors on the diplomatic and security situations and made it clear to them that the Palestinian Authority must wage an effective war on terrorism and incitement before further contacts can be held.
Yatom and Herzog similarly made it clear that the chances of achieving an agreement with the Palestinians before the end of US President Clinton's term are very slim given the continuing terrorism and violence and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat's unclear response to the Americans regarding President Clinton's ideas.
www.israelemb.org /press/2001/January/2001010801.html   (204 words)

  
 Der Mossad steht vor der Reorganisation
Danny Yatom strebte derweil durch gezielte Indiskretionen in den Medien die Reinwaschung seines Namens an.
Yatom wollte die Abteilung redimensionieren, da er glaubte, sie habe sich überlebt.
Yatoms Weigerung abzutreten trübte seine Beziehungen zu «A» und anderen Veteranen des Mossad.
hagalil.com /schweiz/rundschau/inhalt/mossad.htm   (2247 words)

  
 CNN - Netanyahu says he won't fire Mossad chief - Oct. 12, 1997
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet that he won't fire the leader of the nation's spy agency, as a government-appointed panel on Sunday began an inquiry into the botched attempt to kill a Hamas leader in Jordan last month.
Israel Radio reported Netanyahu told his Cabinet that Mossad chief Danny Yatom has his full support, even though speculation had been widespread that Yatom would be dismissed.
Yatom was the first to testify, media reports said.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9710/12/israel.mideast   (863 words)

  
 Danny Yatom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Danny Yatom also Dani Yatom (Hebrew: דני יתום) was the Director of the Mossad from 1996 to 1998.
He also served as deputy commander of Sayeret Matkal and Security Advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
Currently Yatom is a member of the Knesset for the Labor-Meimad party.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Danny_Yatom   (80 words)

  
 Jewish Post - News - Global Terrorism: If This is World War II, How Do We Win?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The new Center's managing committee is Israel's ex-Mossad Chief Gen. (Res) Danny Yatom.
With Dan Meridor, Assaf Heffetz, Bernard Schmidtbauer (former German Minister of Intelligence), Louis Freeh (ex-FBI Director), James Woolsey (ex-CIA head), Gen. (Res) Danny Yatom, and Gen (Ret) Mansur Abu Rashid (former Director for International Relations of the Jordan Army); 3.
Danny Yatom explained that in Islam, there is not separation between religion and state.
www.jewishpost.com /jp0907/jpn0907i.htm   (1323 words)

  
 ZAMAN DAILY NEWSPAPER (2005041118333)
The Israeli intelligence service MOSSAD's former president retired general Danny Yatom asserted that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's withdrawal plan from Gaza Strip confronts the government with the danger of a coup attempt.
Yatom in a statement to the Reuters news agency has warned that unless the rabbis give up their calls for riots, the right-wing extremist soldiers who are opposed to the withdrawal may attempt a coup.
Yatom noted that the Israeli government should learn a lesson from the unsuccessful attempt made against the French President Charles de Gaulle in 1962 that would ruin the plans of withdrawal from Gaza.
www.zaman.com /?bl=international&alt=&trh=20050411&hn=18333   (262 words)

  
 kakal21
Salah seorang pembantu PM Israel Ehud Barak dan juga mendiang pemimpin Israel Yitzhak Rabin, Danny Yatom pada Senin mengatakan bahwa Rabin pada 1993 menyampaikan kepada Washington bahwa ia bersedia menyerahkan Dataran Tinggi Golan kepada Suriah sebagai ganti perdamaian penuh.
Yatom menyampaikan pernyataan tersebut beberapa jam setelah utusan khusus Presiden AS Bill Clinton, Dennis Ross mengatakan bahwa diplomasi ulang-alik selama sepekan yang dilakukan, terbukti gagal mengakhiri kebuntuan perdamaian Israel-Palestina yang telah berlangsung sebulan.
Untuk mengisyaratkan konfirmasi resmi pertama atas klaim Suriah mengenai pernyataan Rabin, di samping isyarat tak langsung Barak kepada Damaskus, Danny Yatom mengutip pernyataan Rabin kepada Menlu AS saat itu Warren Christopher.
www.indomedia.com /bpost/032000/1/ln/ln1.htm   (597 words)

  
 CIECHANOVER'S HEART
Dado -- David Elazar, IDF chief-of-staff during the Yom Kippur War -- was dismissed in accordance with the recommendations of the Agranat Commission, and died heart-broken.
Ciechanover and his ally on the committee, Dan Tolkowsky, thought that Yatom had erred -- but that there was no malice or criminal negligence involved.
Not only did they leave Yatom alone, but they were also lenient on both H., who was found mainly responsible for the mishap and who has since voluntarily resigned, and on the agents' commander.
www.fas.org /irp/news/1998/02/980215-ya.htm   (643 words)

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