from prison and allowed to leave the country for Israel. They became
Jews by choice. Shahin’s family lobbied the Egyptian government to
permit his reburial in Israel. This was, according to them, Shahin’s
last request.SHAI.See INFORMATION SERVICE.SHALEV, ARYEH (1926– ). Born Aryeh Fridlander in Poland, in
Palestine Shalev joined the Haganah militia and the Jewish Settle-
ment Police (1946). After the establishment of the State of Israel in
May 1948, he joined the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and in the
1948–1949 War of Independence, he was a company commander in
the Golani brigade and its intelligence officer. After the war he was
appointed a member of the Armistice Committee. In 1953 he was
made an intelligence officer of the IDF Northern Command. He was
appointed assistant to the director of Military Intelligence(DMI) for
research in September 1967. In this position he became a senior fig-
ure in consolidating the Israeli national intelligence assessment of the
likelihood of the Arabs starting a new war, which was largely based
on the Conceptthat considered Egypt unprepared for belligerency.
On 26 September 1973 Shalev reprimanded Lieutenant Colonel Zu-
sia Knizerfor breaching the instruction to keep King Hussein’s
Warningto Prime Minister Golda Meir and the contents of their con-
versation as top secret, and also Lieutenant Colonel Aviezer (Avik)
Ya’arifor “unnecessarily” alerting the Northern Command.
For his part in the mistaken assessment on the eve of the Yom Kip-
pur War, the 1974 Agranat Commissionrecommended that Shalev
not continue to serve in MI. He was appointed governor of Judea and
Samaria in 1974. After retiring from the IDF in 1976, he joined the
Jaffee Center for Strategic Studiesas a researcher.SHALOM, AVRAHAM (1929– ).Born Avraham Bendor to parents who
immigrated from Germany to Palestine in 1933, Shalom was educated
in a kibbutz. At the time of the struggle for an independent State of Is-
rael, Shalom served in the Palmah militia. In the 1948–1949 War of
Independence, he was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
First he served in a patrol unit, but Isser Harel, the first director of the
Israeli Security Agency(ISA), soon recruited him to the ISA.254 • SHAI06-102 (04) Q-Z.qxd 3/24/06 7:26 AM Page 254