suffering the trauma of its failure to provide early warning on the
eve of the Yom Kippur War.
In 1981, after leaving MI, Gazit held that there was ample evi-
dence that the Iraqis were building nuclear weapons capabilities, but
in the days just preceding the Israeli raid on the Iraqi reactor, Gazit
maintained that the Iraqi nuclear weapons program should have been
blocked by nonmilitary measures. After retiring from MI and the IDF,
Gazit was appointed coordinator of Israeli government policy on
Iran, but he quit shortly afterward because of his feeling that this po-
sition was freezing the Mossadout of this task.
In 1988, a few years after retiring from the IDF, Gazit became af-
filiated with the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studiesat Tel Aviv Uni-
versity. He has since written extensively on Israeli and Middle East-
ern military affairs.GEDALIAH, DAVID.In 1971 Gedaliah was appointed the intelli-
gence officer of the Southern Command of the Israel Defense Forces
(IDF) and was promoted to lieutenant colonel. He replaced Lieu-
tenant Colonel Yehoshua Saguy. On the eve of the 1973 Yom Kip-
pur War, Gedaliah categorically dismissed the assessment of his
junior, Lieutenant Binyamin Siman-Tov, who through a comprehen-
sive analysis maintained that the Egyptian military maneuvers were
a camouflage and their real intention was to wage war. The Agranat
Commissionin 1973–1974 recommended that Gedaliah be barred
from any position in intelligence. He continued to serve in the IDF in
staff and training positions. His last post was as military attaché at the
Israeli embassy in Paris. Gedaliah retired from the IDF in 1988 with
the rank of brigadier general.GEHMER, AVRAHAM.An operations officer in the Mossad, in 1972
Gehmer was stationed in Paris under the diplomatic cover of first sec-
retary of the Israeli embassy. He planned the killing of Ali Hassan
Salameh, but this operation failed because of the misidentification of
Ahmed Bouchiki as Salameh in what became known as the Lille-
hammer Affair. Gehmer who was in Lillehammer, Norway, at the
time of Bouchiki’s assassination in July 1973 was discovered by Nor-
wegian authorities and arrested. Gehmer was sentenced to five and a
half years in prison.96 • GEDALIAH, DAVID06-102 (02) A-G.qxd 3/24/06 7:23 AM Page 96