- Remembered as having warned of an attack before the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, but was ignored by military intelligence.
- Led Mossad from 1968-1974.
- His memoirs were published in Hebrew in 2011 under the title With Open Eyes.
- Immigrated with his family to the then British Mandate of Palestine when only seven months old.
- Served with the Israel Defense Forces from 1948-1968.
- In 1977 he was appointed chairman of the board of directors of the Institute for Petroleum and Geophysics Research.
- Served as chairman of the Israel Petroleum and Energy Institute from 1991-2000.
- Served in the Havana's Palmach during Israel's War of Independence, serving from 1942-1948, with Moshe Dayan and Yitzhak Rabin.
- Following his retirement from the Mossad he served as CEO of Solel Boneh, the construction and civil engineering company, and as the CEO of oil refineries from 1976 to 1990.
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