Amiram Levine

Amiram Levine, who served as deputy chief of the Mossad, said.

The author, Shabtai Shoval, is a partner in a startup company with Major General (res.) Amiram Levine, who was deputy chief of the Mossad.For many years Shoval did his reserve duty in the "Control Unit" of Military Intelligence, whose role is to play devil's advocate and challenge the assessments of the intelligence community.

After Mossad head Amiram Levine convinced Netanyahu that the intelligence was sound, officials decided to formulate a plan to kill the Iraqi leader.
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The plan was revived early last year and, with the appointment of Levine, preparations began for the new plan, called Bramble-II.

The commandos have been ordered to continue their preparations and remain on standby, but the paper said the plan will almost certainly be shelved now that it has been revealed.

After Mossad head Amiram Levine convinced Netanyahu that the intelligence was sound, officials decided to formulate a plan to kill the Iraqi leader.
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The plan was revived early last year and, with the appointment of Levine, preparations began for the new plan, called Bramble-II.

The commandos have been ordered to continue their preparations and remain on standby, but the paper said the plan will almost certainly be shelved now that it has been revealed.

Amiram Levine is now Deputy head of the Mossad - having been appointed by one of the soldiers under his command more than 20 years ago - Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Barak, Shahak, Amiram Levine, and more than a dozen others have something in common; they participated in units that took out some of the main leaders of the PLO terrorist infrastructure in Beirut in the Spring of 1973.
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Barak and Levine were in the Sayeret Matkal, an elite special operations and reconnaissance unit, while Shahak was a paratroop commander.
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Ehud Barak and Amiram Levine were among the Israeli commandos who did so.
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Straight ahead, Amiram Levine in a blonde wig looked like a crazed dancer in the middle of the intersection, his tiny powerful body swinging his Uzi back and forth from target to target.

Amiram Levine meet with PM Netanyahu to discuss their pending appointment as new heads of Mossad.

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Sources in Israel indicated that Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak is preparing to appoint Amiram Levine as head of the Mossad.Levine, who has been in charge of Mossad's operations since last November, would replace Ephraim Halevy, who was appointed head of the Mossad in April 1998 after a series of bungled operations by the agency.
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The sources said that Levine has already proposed the elimination of three leading Islamic militants: Mohammed Deif, head of operations for Hamas in Gaza, Imad Al Alami, the head of foreign operations for Hamas and Imad Moughnia, a senior Hezbollah official.