Hazak knew that Shalom had given the order to kill the two surviv-
ing Palestinian hijackers of Bus 300 after they had surrendered and
were in custody. Hazak knew also that the head of the ISA operations
division, Ehud Yatom, had carried out the killing. Hazak himself re-
signed from the ISA due to this scandal in 1986.HEKER 2.Heker 2 (“Research 2”) was an ultrasecret unit within the
Political Department of the Israeli Foreign Ministry set up in 1948. Its
missions were sabotage and propaganda behind enemy lines. Follow-
ing the establishment of the Mossadand the disbanding of the Foreign
Ministry’s Political Department, Heker 2 was transferred to Military
Intelligencein the Israel Defense Forces and renamed Unit 131.HERZOG, CHAIM (1918–1997).President of Israel (1983–1988). Her-
zog was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 1935 his family immi-
grated to Palestine, and his father, Isaac Halevy Herzog, became chief
rabbi of Israel. Chaim Herzog attended the Government of Palestine
Law School in Jerusalem, Cambridge University, and London Univer-
sity, where he earned a law degree. During World War II, he was a tank
commander in the British Army; he later directed British intelligence in
Germany, where he identified a captive soldier as Nazi chief Heinrich
Himmler. After the war, he served in the Jewish underground, the Ha-
ganah, in Palestine.
After serving as a field commander in the Israel Defense Forces
(IDF), Colonel Herzog was appointed director of Military Intelli-
gence(DMI) in 1948, holding this position until 1950. MI was at that
time a department in the General Staff of the IDF. From 1959 to 1962
Herzog, now with the rank of major general, served again as director
of the MI. Now the MI was a directorate in General Staff.
After retiring from the army, Herzog went into private business.
During the 1967 Six-Day War, he served as a radio commentator, be-
coming renowned for his military and political analyses. After that war,
Herzog was recalled to active duty and served as the first IDF military
governor of Judea, Samaria, and East Jerusalem. During the 1973 Yo m
Kippur War, he again gave radio commentaries on its progress, which
were later assembled as a book entitled The War of Atonement(1975).
In 1975 Chaim Herzog was appointed Israeli ambassador to the United
Nations. In that capacity he denounced the General Assembly resolu-112 • HEKER 206-102 (03) H-P.qxd 3/24/06 7:24 AM Page 112