Historical Dictionary of Israeli Intelligence

TAMARI, DOV (1936– ).The Israeli-born Tamari was conscripted

into the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in 1954. For 15 years he served

in the paratroops and took part in most of the military reprisaloper-

ations of the 1950s. Tamari studied at the Command and Staff Col-

lege in the United States; on his return to Israel, he served as deputy

commander of the paratroop brigade and then as commander of an ar-

mored brigade. Shortly before the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Tamari

served as deputy commander of the Armored Corps, and after the war

he was made its commander. In November 1976, after his long career

in IDF field command positions, Tamari was appointed chief intelli-

gence officer in Military Intelligence. He resigned from the IDF

with the rank of brigadier general.

TARGETED KILLINGS.See ISRAELI SECURITY AGENCY.

TECHNOLOGICAL THEATER/ZIRA TECHNOLOGIT (ZIT).

The desk in Military Intelligenceresponsible for technological de-

velopments, especially in weapons in the Arab countries. Before the

1973 Yom Kippur War, this desk was designated Branch 7.

TECHSTAR SATELLITE.See OFEQ SATELLITES.

TERRORISM.In Israel, the overall term “terrorism” covers Palestinian-

Arab terror against Israelis as well as Jewish terror against Arabs and

Jews. It appeared well before the establishment of the State of Israel.

Early Jewish Terrorism.Some maintain that certain actions by Jews

of the Yishuv (Jewish settlement) in Palestine against British Man-

date personnel was terrorism, although the official leaders of the

Yishuv condemned it. Only the Revisionist groups in the Yishuv (the

Irgun and the Stern Group) made use of something akin to terrorism,

yet it was entirely different from the brutal Palestinian terrorism of

killing innocent people in buses and restaurants.

Even during the darkest days of British mandatory rule in Palestine,

David Ben-Gurion, the leader of the Yishuv, fought an all-out war

against the Revisionists. The latter refused to acquiesce to repeated

British attempts to diminish the size of the Jewish Homeland, first by

the creation of Transjordan in the area east of the River Jordan in the

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