What is Zvi Zamir?
[[File:Zvi Zamir.jpg|200px|center]] '''Zvi Zamir''' ({{lang-he|צבי זמיר}}) (born '''Zvicka Zarzevsky'''; 3 March 1925 – 2 January 2024) was a [[Polish people|Polish]]-born [[Israel|Israeli]] major general in the [[Israel Defense Forces]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ihG7AAAAIAAJ&q=Zvi+Zamir+1925&dq=Zvi+Zamir+1925 Profile of Zvi Zamir]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://idfarchives.bloger.co.il/230297/|title=צבי זמיר|access-date=2018-04-03|archive-date=2020-11-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201114095835/http://idfarchives.bloger.co.il/230297/|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was the director of the [[Mossad]] from 1968 to 1974. During his time as Mossad director, he oversaw the country's response to the [[Munich massacre]] and the [[Yom Kippur War]]. He was also a businessman and was CEO of [[BAZAN Group]] in the 1970s. Zamir was born in [[Łódź]], [[Second Polish Republic|Poland]]. He moved to the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate of Palestine]] when he was seven months old. Zamir died on 2 January 2023 in [[Tel Aviv]], [[Israel]] at the age of 98.<ref>[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-780397 Zvi Zamir, Mossad director during Yom Kippur War, dies at 98]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * Itamar Eichner, [https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/BJJBcbL0H Mossad chief in Yom Kippur War: Tell CIA No. 2 to kiss my ass], [[Ynetnews]], December 17, 2019 {{DEFAULTSORT:Zamir, Zvi}} [[Category:1925 births]] [[Category:2024 deaths]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of Israel]] [[Category:Israeli generals]] [[Category:People from Łódź]] [[Category:Mossad people]] [[Category:Politicians from Tel Aviv]] [[Category:Israeli businesspeople]] {{bio-stub}}