Egypt for Europe, and thereafter they traveled to Israel. On 30 March
2005 Dassa was accorded recognition by Israeli president Moshe Kat-
sav and the chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Moshe
Ya’alon, for his services to the state and for his years of suffering.DAYEKH, HAYDER.Dayekh was a Lebanese from the Jouaya who co-
operated with the Israeli Security Agencyafter the Israel Defense
Forces invaded Lebanon in 1982. He was listed in a group of 45 col-
laborators by the Lebanese National Resistance. The list was hung on
wall posters and distributed in the occupied zone in Lebanon. In Janu-
ary 1985 a Palestinian emptied a whole pistol magazine into Dayekh’s
stomach and killed him. Lebanon in the 1980s had become an area of
brutality.DEKEL, EPHRAIM (1903–1982).Born Ephraim Krasner in Russia,
Dekel immigrated to Israel in 1921. He set up the Information Ser-
vice(Shai) in Tel Aviv in 1934 and headed it until 1946. The Tel Aviv
organization was established before the Shai was formed nationally
in Jewish Palestine in 1940. In the Shai, Dekel monitored British ra-
dio and telephone communications, with the assistance of mathemat-
ically inclined Shai members able to decipher the British codes,
which were normally changed weekly. In 1946 he was dispatched to
Europe to organize the activities of the Briha(Escape) of Jews to Is-
rael. In Europe he was also in charge of secret arms-purchasing ef-
forts for the Haganah underground militia in Palestine.DEKEL, OFFER (1951– ).After graduating in physics and chem-
istry from Hebrew University in Jerusalem (he holds an academic
degree in law as well), the Israeli-born Dekel was recruited in 1975
to the Israeli Security Agency(ISA) as a case officer. In January
1977 he served in Ramallah, and following the 1982 Peace for
Galilee Operation, he served in southern Lebanon. In July 2000
Dekel headed the Jerusalem region, which was responsible for the
West Bank as well. He served in this position during the tough
years of the Palestinian uprising known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada.
His last position in the ISA, until May 2005, was as deputy direc-
tor. He contested Yuval Diskinfor the directorship of the ISA,
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